Coffee Naps Better For Alertness Than Coffee Or Naps Alone 133
An anonymous reader writes: Caffeine is a staple of most workplaces — it's rare to find an office without a coffee pot or a fridge full of soda. It's necessary (or at least feels like it's necessary) because many workers have a hard time staying awake while sitting at a desk for hours at a time, and the alternative — naps — aren't usually allowed. But new research shows it might be more efficient for employers to encourage brief "coffee naps," which are more effective at returning people to an alert state than either caffeine or naps alone. A "coffee nap" is when you drink a cup of coffee, and then take a sub-20-minute nap immediately afterward. This works because caffeine takes about 20 minutes to get into your bloodstream, and a 20-minute nap clears adenosine from your brain without putting you into deeper stages of sleep. In multiple studies, tired participants who took coffee naps made fewer mistakes in a driving simulator after they awoke than the people who drank coffee without a nap or slept without ingesting caffeine.
Whats this, you want a Coffee Nap? (Score:1, Funny)
Coffee naps are for closers! [imdb.com]
Anecdotal verification (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Unless... (Score:5, Funny)
You could try doing it during a meeting.
Bring a cup of coffee and a pair of those fake awake eyes specs and hope you don't snore.
Re:Employers don't want employees who LOOK lazy. (Score:5, Funny)
"Go take these old PCs that are in the redeployment pool and cannibalize them."
"Go take these cannibalized PCs and load them into this modular shipping container."
"Go unload this modular shipping container of old cannibalized PCs and load them in this trailer."
"Go unload this trailer of old cannibalized PCs and load them onto these pallets."
"Go break-down these pallets of old cannibalized PCs and load them into this modular shipping container."
It was like Cool Hand Luke without the eggs.
this will never work in IT (Score:5, Funny)
Ask about taking coffee naps, or even the more traditional after-lunch kind, and your employer will suspect you of being over forty.
Re:Employers don't want employees who LOOK lazy. (Score:5, Funny)
...And for those that want to argue that it's the employer's time, to use the employees how they see fit, one of the fastest ways to demoralize a technical worker is to make him do manual labor that doesn't even serve a purpose; most of us got into technical fields to avoid doing manual labor in the first place, let alone that which doesn't make a positive contribution.
One of the scariest things to see is a programmer walking towards the servers with a screwdriver...