Stella C 🇨🇦
May Likes TorontoWe should normalize the siesta everywhere.
All workplaces should have nap rooms!
Lounge chair meeting rooms. Work pyjamas.
Imagine how much more accessible offices could be to people with chronic fatigue if we had access to these things.
somcak@mayintoronto I have couch in my office that I'll sometimes lie across in the afternoons when I'm tired. I'll balance my laptop on my belly and "work". I hadn't thought of this as an accommodation, but it totally is!
@somcak When I was teaching, sometimes the kids would come back super early after lunch when I'm still on my break. (No staff room.) They'd bang on the door insisting to be let in.
A few times when I needed a nap, I'd nap under my desk where the kids can't see me. Rough times.
dillyd@mayintoronto @somcak
I slept under my desk when I was pregnant and literally could not stay awake for an entire workday. I've always thought offices should have a break room where somebody can lie down for a bit.
Now I work from home most days and take 15-minute naps and my boss definitely gets more work out of me when I'm rested
I slept under my desk when I was pregnant and literally could not stay awake for an entire workday. I've always thought offices should have a break room where somebody can lie down for a bit.
Now I work from home most days and take 15-minute naps and my boss definitely gets more work out of me when I'm rested
@dillyd @mayintoronto Yeah, my work form home days always involve a nap, even if I don't sleep, to just rest my eyes. I get so much done those days.
Kim Possible 
@mayintoronto omg yes. I used to use my meal break to take a nap in my car. Invariably, someone would think it was hilarious to knock on my car window and wake me up. 🙄
ContraindiKate@mayintoronto I have two beds in my apartment: sleep bed and business bed
@ContraindiKate business bed for business time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqfsukw9S6Y
Business Time - Flight Of The Conchords
Harshad Sharma@mayintoronto 💯! Had an opportunity to test this as cofounder of a startup - we all agreed that the small meeting rooms would have seating that doubled as a bed: 3x beds * 3 meeting rooms, and a quiet isolated corner. Through the decade that were using that office, the beds were regularly used by all to take mid-day naps whenever needed.
PapyrusBrigade@mayintoronto That point is reminding me of the report produced by one of the US agencies (like Fed Reserve of St Louis, or something like that), that showed how in the first year of the pandemic employment rates improved for disabled people because suddenly much more remote work was available. This continues to strike me as a really important finding that policy makers should run with, instead of bury.
@PapyrusBrigade The eugenicist state does not care. 😞
@mayintoronto Holy moly, the workplace nap room was the only way I made it through the 3rd trimester of pregnancy.
I have found that since the pandemic started, I have more colleagues who will unapologetically schedule a nap. Generally they are ones who have returned to work after being on LTD from long Covid. Small mercies.
@PapyrusBrigade I've seen those desks in Japanese offices that fold out into cots. Just like that.
@PapyrusBrigade oof, just looked up how siestas came to be in Spain, and it was...a break for people to commute between their part time jobs during bad economic times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siesta
@mayintoronto Wow! I had no idea.
vandorb12@mayintoronto My workplace has more than one! It's called my bedroom and my couch.