...Napping, and the need to nap, are universal. Abundant research – at the universities of Loughborough, Pennsylvania, California and many others – shows the immediate and pronounced benefits of even just 10 or 20 minutes sleep on a tired mind... In short it is rather odd that almost the whole world, and especially the cities where so many people spend their days, have not yet found a way to incorporate napping into the culture. — The Guardian
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zzzzzzz ... huh, somebody say something?
I don't mind. The only thing important for sleeping on the job is that people clock out for the nap. If I had employees, I don't mind as long as they put an honest full days work without me paying for that time where they are sleeping because during that time nothing is happening on the drawings and whatever else that needs to get done. It isn't all that different than Mexican culture of siestas. It means they don't necessarily go home at 5pm but at maybe 8pm or they show up at 6AM and work to 10AM and take a quick snack brunch and nap til 4PM and then resume and go home at 8pm or something. I don't have an issue as long as they clock out and clock back in and fulfill the full days work of production.
Bottom line is we keep on schedule and not get behind. However certain positions are not not necessarily suited for such siesta operations like the 8AM to 5PM receptionist.
In my place of business in C-4 zoned property currently operating under Home Occupancy use (more work would be required to set up use as "Professional Service" office Group B [building code occupancy classification]), I can be open to people visiting from 7AM to 6PM. I can push it to 8PM with an established either downstairs or as an accessory structure if one was built but these hours would still be customary of the character of the area and therefore I would likely be confined in operating hours between 7AM to 7PM which is appropriately comparable to the near by day care. 8PM would be a push due to nature of C-4 with adjacency to residential neighborhood and most likely only during the summer when the sunlight is up later like during June, July and August.
Bottom line: It is just what it is.
When you think about the zoning laws and applications, it can certainly affect whether employees can have these siestas because by general principle, non-resident employees (ie. employees that don't like at the building where the office is) that they aren't there more than an hour earlier or later than customer/clients are there. This maybe less an issue with general commercial downtown kinds of properties. Even then, zoning rules may still have effect.
I have a day bed in my studio. It doubles as a casting couch for interns.
That is what old Diazo Print Rooms were for.....close the door and lay down on the floor and catch a few zzzzzzzSSSS!
Good point, Snook... but those ammonia fumes could make that sleep hard to come by.
Yeah, I'm with citizen. I don't have a diazo machine but the did it manually but that involves precoated diazo paper, overlaying the trace over the coated diazo paper and exposing it to the sun which is alot of trial and error until you get the timing down. Then it comes to coating with a ultra fine mist of ammonia and hot air gun.
At the end of the day, I rather do cyanotype over diazo because it doesn't leave an odor.
ok, cyanotype may leave an 'odor' but not like ammonia in diazoprints
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