Chicago shop condones sleeping on the job

Times being what they are, it's not advisable to take a nap on the job. Unless you work at Remedy, a branding and marketing firm in Chicago that has created a "rejuvenation room" for stressed-out employees to shut the world out for a half hour at a time. The room has a massaging sleep chair, fuzzy slippers, blankets, dim lights, aromatherapy, a sound diffuser and "water features." The agency focuses on health issues, and Carol McCarthy, who runs the place, is a former nurse—so perhaps it's not surprising that she's attuned to how unproductive workers can be when they're overtired. "Sleeping is now as important in our work day as meetings and conference calls," she says. Presumably they don't tell the clients that.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

January 27, 2009 in Nudd, Remedy | Permalink