English IV/Inacap, Talca/Miss Belén Pérez D.

Inglés VI
(IDEN04/651-7D -7D)
7th Semester – 2019

ENGLISH PROJECT

teacher:
Belén Elizabeth Perez
Students:
Paulina Sepúlveda
Juan Riquelme
Felipe Vallejos
Matías Vaques
Date:
July 5, 2019
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Benefits Of Napping for College Students

by Annie Walton Doyle | Updated: October 9, 2018

College students and napping are often thought of as a match made in heaven. The
lazy student stereotype combined with a more lax working schedule suggests
sleeping all day is the college norm. But this isn’t the case – and napping is actually
anything but lazy. Naps can improve concentration and information retention, and
thus be a key to better grades. Plus, they can help in other ways, such as tempering
weight gain, boosting the immune system and even helping out with your partying.
Here is a conclusive list of napping benefits to college students, and “being lazy”
doesn’t appear once.

Napping for as little as an hour can reset your short term memory, allowing you to
better retain information after you wake up. This is particularly perfect for college
time, when you need to retain information effectively every day. There’s also
evidence that those who nap immediately after learning new information retain said
information better both immediately and over the course of the following days.
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A CASE FOR NAPS IN THE WORKPLACE

Jitendra M. Mishra, Ph.D., Professor of Management Seidman College of Business.

Workplace napping is a natural low-cost way to increase worker productivity. Most

employers do not mind a coffee break, but if employees take a nap break they will
probably get fired. In today’s fast-paced society and cut-throat global-competition,
most companies frown on the idea of “napping” in the workplace. But the concept of
napping is going through a slow evolution because of the concerns about the “bottom
line,” reduced productivity, and profits due to sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is
estimated to cost U.S. businesses $18 billion annually (Paul, 1998). Napping has
been scientifically proven to boost alertness and creativity. This has interesting
implications for the workplace. If managers were to let their employees take a 20–
30 minute nap during the afternoon, it could boost productivity. Today’s 24/7 culture
has created a sleepdeprived nation, with too many people cheating on their sleep to
get through all their activities.

Workplace Napping

Workplace napping is an innovative, low-cost method being introduced by some

companies. Businesses with nap rooms are experiencing an increase in production
and are seeing fewer human errors. In Australia, workplaces allow naps for firemen,
truck drivers, doctors, and interns. It is interesting to note that David Johnson,
managing director of Deloittle Consulting Company in Pittsburg, feels his company
has increased productivity due to a “nap-room.” “They love it, they lap it up.”
(O’Connor, 2004) Craig Yarde, President of Yarde Metals, feels that napping
contributes to higher sales, higher productivity, efficiency, and reduced turnovers.
Anthony and Camille of Boston University conducted a survey and found that 70%
of the1,000 respondents admitted that they nap at work and it benefits them. Gould
Evans installed 10 by 12 foot “nap rooms” and according to its spokesperson, there
is no stigma attached to those using it. Workers at Gould Evans found that napping
helps them get refreshed and revitalized (Meyer 2001).
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The recuperative value of brief and ultra‐brief

naps on alertness and cognitive performance
Amber J. Tietzel Leon C. Lack

The aim of the study was to investigate the recuperative value of brief and ultra‐brief
naps following nocturnal sleep restriction. Sixteen young adult healthy sleepers
participated in a repeated measures design comprising four experimental conditions:
no nap, 30‐s nap, 90‐s nap and 10‐min nap. On the evening preceding each
laboratory session, participants limited their nocturnal sleep to between 24:00 and
05:00 h. Measures of subjective alertness, objective alertness, fatigue, vigour and
cognitive performance were taken before the nap and at several intervals postnap.
Consistent with our previous study (Tietzel and Lack 2001), the 10‐min nap resulted
in significantly improved alertness and cognitive performance relative to a no‐nap
control. There were no measurable improvements for the 30‐ and 90‐s nap
conditions relative to no nap, which suggests that the mechanism underlying the
benefits of brief naps does not appear to be the onset of stage 1 sleep. Further
research is required to investigate whether the benefits of brief naps are because of
the onset of stage 2 or delta wave sleep, or a specific duration of sleep between 90
s and 10min.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
 Tietzel, A. J., & Lack, L. C. (2002). The recuperative value of brief and ultra‐brief naps on alertness
and cognitive performance. Journal of Sleep Research, 11(3), 213-218.
 Mishra, J. M. (2009). A Case For Naps In The Workplace. Seidman Business Review, 15(1), 9.

 Doyle, A. (2019). 14 Benefits Of Napping for College Students | Sleepopolis. [online] Sleepopolis.
Available at: https://sleepopolis.com/blog/14-benefits-napping-college-students/ [Accessed 28 Jun.
2019].