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Pillows to help workers snooze at desk

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Re: Pillows to help workers snooze at desk

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Post by yonaguska »

phyzome wrote: post #25

So glad I work from home these days. Napping in the office was always uncomfortable -- one shitty cot in a nap room that wasn't always available and where the door didn't even lock. Sometimes I crawled under a desk or behind a cubicle. And that nap room was considered an amenity! But now I have my own bed, so instead of being a completely miserable and unproductive zombie, I can take a proper nap and then be alert an…

I used to be in an office overlooking Millennium Park in Chicago. when the weather was nice, a 20 min post lunch nap on a park bench did wonders for my productivity. I do miss it, but I have the superpower of being able to instantly sleep pretty much anywhere, anytime.

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Post by m463 »

winrid wrote: post #22

I remember when we had a dedicated nap room at work, it was really nice and a ten min nap would greatly improve my productivity for the 2nd half of the day. At one point the new VP of Eng, who was fairly old, joked that "I should be the only one taking naps." They later put pingpong etc in the room and turned the lights back on. Stupid. Anyway always happy to see companies embracing naps. Much better than constant ca…

I worked somewhere that had a pool table and a futon.

They got rid of the futon because they didn't want to be seen as a sweatshop.

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Post by 082349872349872 »

winrid wrote: post #22

I remember when we had a dedicated nap room at work, it was really nice and a ten min nap would greatly improve my productivity for the 2nd half of the day. At one point the new VP of Eng, who was fairly old, joked that "I should be the only one taking naps." They later put pingpong etc in the room and turned the lights back on. Stupid. Anyway always happy to see companies embracing naps. Much better than constant ca…

At my first job out of school my officemate and I had a couch in our office, which was often used for napping by our coworkers (who had individual offices and hence not so suitable furniture).

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Post by tanaros »

blowski wrote: post #33

This is identical to the Ostrich pillow that was on Kickstarter about 10 years ago. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studio-banana/ostrich-p... I remember it because they demoed it at TechHub.

The picture in that Kickstarter doesn't look particularly identical to the picture in the article.

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Post by tass »

smeej wrote: post #29
neoecos wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just landed after red eye flight and connecting and was thinking about this the whole flight

My favorite plane sleeping solution is to tie the arms of a long-sleeved T-shirt behind the headrest such that the body of the shirt hangs in front of your face and the shirt keeps your head from moving. No more nodding and waking yourself up! And bonus darkness!

Do you get a seat in the back row? I can’t picture how to do this without interfering with the seat’s screen, tablet holder or tray table.

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Post by pezezin »

rasz wrote: post #12

As a salaryman you are supposed to not leave office before your boss AND pretend to be working, pillow defeats the objective.

I live in Japan. The part about not leaving the office before your boss depends on the company and it is not so true anymore, most of my Japanese colleagues punch out the second the bell rings. The part about pretending to work is very much true though.

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Post by dotancohen »

spondylosaurus wrote: post #13
smeej wrote: post #3

I have a skeletal deformity in my neck that causes severe cervicogenic headaches. One of the best ways to relieve them is to rest the front of my head on something, or even push against it. If anyone finds a place these are available in the U.S., please let me know. This could be a game-changer for me where nothing else works well.

If you can find one for sale on a Japanese retailer, there are third-party proxy services you can use to have it shipped to the US. IIRC some are platform-specific (like services for Yahoo! Japan auctions), and the proxy obviously adds to the total price, but it's all legit. I've bought a fair bit of stuff through proxies.

Suggestions for services that you have used would be appreciated.

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Post by wahnfrieden »

smeej wrote: post #3

I have a skeletal deformity in my neck that causes severe cervicogenic headaches. One of the best ways to relieve them is to rest the front of my head on something, or even push against it. If anyone finds a place these are available in the U.S., please let me know. This could be a game-changer for me where nothing else works well.

use a site like dejapan to have it proxied. easy.
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