How one company is ramping up productivity — by helping its staff to sleep

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With poor sleep linked to productivity loss, Shopee is encouraging its employees to use the nap pods in its new premises, to get more out of them.

Office space on almost every floor has been sacrificed for rooms with double-decker capsule beds, soft and warm lighting and even blackout curtains.It all makes for a well-rested lot of coders, developers and data analysts at e-commerce platform Shopee’s new six-storey regional headquarters in Kent Ridge, which opened last month.

With the online shopping boom, Shopee’s developers and data analysts often spend long hours at their computer screens, hence the nap pods for them to break the monotony of coding.“We’re operating 24/7 so our app doesn’t stop. We have to fix issues along the way,” noted Lim. “We maintain hotel-standard cleanliness in our nap pods. So we change the sheets every day,” said Lim.

And in recent years, a small but growing number of businesses here, including SAP Singapore and Google Singapore, have installed sleep pods. Even the Nanyang Technological University set up a rest pod in a library last year for its students.NO SLEEP IS LIKE BEING DRUNK

 

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