Many of could us a nap once in a while to recharge our batteries while at work, but it’s hard to find a company in this country where napping is encouraged or where nap spaces are provided. Asian countries seem to have initiated this practice in the popular imagination, but few American companies have picked up that baton. Snoozing during work hours, even for a short period, in some ways clashes with our ideas of the bustling productivity of the American workplace. We asked employees, “Does your office have space to take naps and/or a culture that supports napping during work hours?”
This information comes from the latest reading of an ongoing study by Comparably. Over 1,000 employees responded to the question.
Just over a quarter or men and one-fifth of women say their company promotes the idea of napping during work hours.
African-Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders, and Hispanic/Latino respondents all say report few opportunities for napping at work. All three groups reported slightly more positive answers more often than the overall average as seen above. Caucasian responses fall right in between overall scores for men and women.
Certain work departments report more napping policies than others, with some besting the overall average by a significant amount. Employees from Business Development, Communications, HR, IT, Design, and several other all report that their offices offer some form of napping space. Coming in at less napping than the overall average are Finance, Customer Support, Operations, and Sales.
The younger the employee, the more likely they work somewhere that offers or encourages napping during work hours. This makes sense if one considers that napping at work is a relatively new innovation, and is most likely to be adopted by start-ups and other companies that focus on younger employees just out of college.
The more educated you are, the more likely you work at a job that has a napping policy. Certainly those who work in their own offices, like highly educated medical professionals, can likely nap as they see fit. 
As with age, and running parallel to that data, we see that the longer one has worked at a job, the less chance they get to take naps on the company clock. Employees who have worked for 10 years would have long gotten used to working straight through their shift with no down time for naps.
Latest reading as of Jan 27.
