Yes, sleeping at work is normal in Japan. May sound strange but is actually true. This is also why labs often have beds...
Is it a perk for employees...or is their work life balance so poor, with impossible shifts, that they cannot properly rest at home?
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No, this is an aberration. The fact that it is considered acceptable does not make it a fair practice.If you think it's right, you're not considering the state of being.Each state of being is associated with the right environment.
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I need to start this in NZ too 🤩
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I have been a salaryman in Japan for 3 decades. Sleeping on the job is no more acceptable in Japan than elsewhere, except at off times (e.g. lunch time). It does happen that in some jobs, particularly civil service, people may have to sometimes work past the time of the last train, so end up sleeping in the office if they cannot get home, and where that happens often provision is made for people to sleep. I and my colleagues sometimes stayed very late in the office because we had to talk to people in the US (who were generally less flexible about altering their working time) but that is a fact of life in the global world. Civil servants, particularly those that have to provide information for politicians do have notoriously long hours. Some jobs, particularly public transport there are shifts that are late night /early morning that include overnight sleep. My point is that a picture like this does not show the whole situation, although it is true that many people in Japan work longer hours than their counterparts elsewhere, but there are various reasons for this.
In almost 30 years of working in Japan, I have never seen anything like this. Where is this “normal” in Japan?
The keyword is “show” instead of “do”. Japan’s productivity is extremely low because all the workers are busy “showing” each other they’re so busy, instead of doing (coming from a 20 year veteran in Japan).
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15 years in Japan I never encountered except during lunch break.
I've worked at more Japanese companies than I can shake a stick at, and I have never seen anything remotely like this. Struggling to see how 'sleeping at work' would show commitment to 'completing their tasks'. It's certainly not the reaction I would expect from any senior Japanese manager I've ever worked for or with...
Not saying full-on office sleeping like this never occurs, but I’ve never seen it in 30 years of working in Tokyo offices.If you look up “inemuri” in Japanese, this is what comes up: workers and students catching a few Zs “in place” (the “i” in “inemuri”). Catnapping, which is very common in Japan (especially at meetings), is recommended for improving alertness.
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