Modern workplace: Should the employees be allowed to nap after lunch?

It's yet to be explored in the private organisation, The Govt., should make it a law as most of them are already having their sista time hours !!!

Well said Sashidharan, good example and explanation. I agree with you, employees should be allowed to have a nap after lunch, which keep them active and fresh. This will help them to improve the performance of work.

Thanks.... 

This purely depends on work environment, working conditions, management policies and philosophy and other matters taking to consideration. A person after having a long rest and reaching to an office with good facilities and environment need to take a nap after lunch break.  Where as a person working in the open area from 6.30 AM where the temperature rises above 40 degree centigrade at normal times and exceeds higher than that in the peak time has to have some break and nap after having a small lunch / break. They will have to maintain their health, body conditions and to protect from all types of hazards. Such categories deserve a small break after lunch to induce more output after lunch break. Otherwise their output arose day be day due to unhealthy conditions.

hmmmm........ i think my boss wont mind my post.............:-) well instead of a nap...... it should be made mandatory for every employee to make some sports after their feast so as to enhance their physic and refuel their brain with freshness...... obviously it will do as there cant be sports dislikers............

Depends on the industry,anyway no harm if regulated properly since it's human instinct.

This sounds as you would like to be god for your workers. I am coming from different culture probably, but openly stating such position would lead into loss of workforce almost instantly from where I come. 

Yes Darshana I do agree with your point.

‘Power nap’, give us more patience, less stress, better reaction time, increased learning, more efficiency and better health & productivity

so wht do u xpect.....mployees shld go for fast during ofc time?????actually most of the people dont get mch time to tke healthy breakfast in morning...so they go for a healthy lunch .....body requirements actually...u know.....so i feel they must b given some tme to recharrge....nd i feel u gonna see 4 times refreshment in employees activities.......try it!!!!!!! 

because it"ll helpful in doing better work.. 

If you lead your brain to run at alpha and theta frequencies of brain waves for 10-15 minutes (=take a nap), you can get back to work to perform at your peak capacities for the next four hours.

It's worth the investment to teach people to reach alpha/theta states within the first five minutes. Besides increasing productivity, you help them reduce stress, or even improve their self-image/self-confidence...

At my Company, the Chauffeurs I train to slip into deep sleep in a short span of time consider it to be the most valuable part of training! They work from very early hours in the morning, every day.

I suppose IT pros work late into the night? People who work late into the night, need not feel guilty to allow a well deserved nap! To learn to get into a nap and to get out is part of Personal Mastery one needs to cultivate.

Madan are they not human being to make them play tennis in the after noon hours, how many can play tennis at a time? How many tennis courts required for an enterprise? these are all the difficulyties involved in doing so.

Looks like you have already done some fact finding there, great!  Since you already tagged your question with "modern workplace" keyword,  i would support this as a practise, otherwise for one, you would have difficulty in setting your organization apart from the more traditional businesses.

Cheers.

ya, its a good idea to refresh the Employee. Feel the small nap, gives the relaxation and more energy in the noon, But hope it should not continue a soundless sleep. :)

yes, a quick 10 to 15 minutes nap is essential for employees,,,so that they'll be more energetic and fresh for further work hours.

I agree with darshana but would the company pay for those personal productive time or reduce salary to sleep for x minutes of hours per month. The Hr should have point of view........

in countries like uae,couple in india. there are many companies whose timings are like day 9:00 to 13:30

evening 16:30 to 20:30 or 21:00.. kinda gr8 for ppl who stay near to their workplaces.

It certainly would help increasing productivity if this nap is not transformed and becomes a sleep. Conditions mist beclearely established.

I retired and I fell like a nap would had been welcomed when I was employed.

some how, i feel tht employees mst b givn sometme  to tke a nap aftr lunch, coz whn u eat somthng,ur body needs xtra energy to digest....so the organs strt taking enrgy to complete digestion process,so the blood strts flowing towards d workng organs....so reducd amt of blood flow 4m brain,resulting sleepness...also durng lunch..it has been noted tht some people take heavy meal...bcoz of lightr breakfast dey feel more hungry  in the aftrnoon.......and also yaar ...itne rights to employees ko milne hi chahiye ki ...thoda brk den...lfe mn kaam to kabhi kam hona nhi....so tke a breakkkk....whn ever whrevr u want ....as a nap or somethng else....wht evr makes u feel pleasureable........

Its Increases Productivity. Z. Khan

After lunch nap is required or not required mostly  its depend on task/work performed by that particulars person.If  in task/ work operation hard labour is used than we must allowed the that person for 20-25 minutes nap to restore the energy. Otherwise if in work or task operation mental/inlactual power is used then  I suggest we should allowed to refresh the mind thru walking outside the office place in any green park or open place to restore the energy & refreshing the power.

Definitely yes,its the need of the hour, if I am not wrong.

lol@ujval :)

I like the way Ujval has put it.. But honestly, 40 winks has a merit of its own!! It is a studied fact that a little nap after lunch (particularly at workplace) helps in keeping the memory at its sharpest due to secretion of some hormones!! So guys go get that nap and please use the excuse of sharpening the memory!1 :))

Friends I think a quick ten minute nap after lunch helps us  keep fresh and energetic for rest of the day. This is what others say and even I have experienced it.  A person who sleeps for 15 minutes after lunch, his productivity level increases. When they have rested and are more awake, they can think more clearly and they make less mistakes in their work. Aside from benefiting the company, the employees benefit as well.

I felt it would be good if we allow them to sleep. But I would like to know what you people like to do......