What some of our customers are saying?
"Our employee survey results on the MetroNaps service have been very positive and we have been very satisfied.
Improving employee energy and well-being through power napping is a real and important opportunity."
Procter & Gamble
"MetroNaps is an essential part of our zero-harm policy. I can see these units becoming common amenities not only in mining, but in all safety critical workplaces."
BHP Billiton
"We have used (MetroNaps) as part of a companywide effort to support employee well-being."
Cisco Systems
"We know the work at Salesforce is very boring, very repetitive, so we work hard on our culture. We work hard to retain our staff. The (MetroNaps) idea is great and response fantastic"
Salesforce
"In any organisation, it's important to manage churn... we want to be an employer of choice and retain staff. We use MetroNaps as part of a strategy to make iSelect a great place to work."
iSelect
"In terms of the new MBF Centre's excitement factor, the MetroNaps sleep pods, are a big attraction There's been a real buzz going around about the sleep pods.
Everybody is talking about them. You'll wake up feeling fresh and beat the 3pm corporate slump. It's popular..."
MBF Health
Other high powered corporations that subscribe to power napping
At Nike employees have access to "relaxation rooms". Nike also urges its employees to just do it, although it calls its nap room a "relaxation room."
The relaxation rooms offer a place of solitude and rest where the senses are engaged by soothing sounds and visuals and delighted by elegant materials and calming scents.
Usually they feature massage chairs, large flat-panel screens, aromatherapy machines, color kinetic arrays for light therapy, integrated surround sound audio systems,
and even surround-visual displays that present large scale images seen through headsets.
Nike
Rosekind's real-world research at NASA resulted in at least one airline, British Airways, allowing pilots on trans-oceanic flights to catch a few winks so they will be more alert when landing.
British Airways
U.S. Army's studies have convinced their top brass to allow officers a nod or two while on the job.
US Army
At Union Pacific Railroad their napping policy is aimed at the road freight teams.
They permit one crew member a 45 minute nap. Dennis Holland Ph.D.,
Union Pacific's director of Alertness Management, anticipates napping programs for other segments of the company.
"Employees find napping to be an effective management and employee relations benefit - management's willingness to colour outside the box has impressed employees" Holland says.
"Our society is sleep-deprived" he added, which adopted a pro-napping policy in 1998. "It's worse than it was in the past, and we have to address it."
Union Pacific Railroad
