Expert eulogises benefits of napping at work

The average worker is unproductive 72 days a year due to lack of sleep, according to a poll by mattress company Sleeping Duck released last year.

As such, shouldn’t employers try to combat this sleep debt in the workplace? Fiona Kerr, Neural and Systems Complexity Specialist at the University of Adelaide, certainly thinks so…

Kerr told the Daily Mail: “A nap is like a shower for your brain. It's about taking the pieces we have to juggle all of the time, and putting them down for a minute.

"Naps are good for people because they serve as a 'cleaning the inbox' function.