japan: Sleep on the job, rewards for snooze time: Japanese firms take steps to tackle deaths from overwork – The Economic Times

TOKYO: Companies in Japan are adopting different measures to counter an epidemic of sleeplessness that costs its economy an estimated $138 billion a year, a media report said on Tuesday.

Tech startups have been the quickest to address the “sleep debt” among irritable and unproductive employees, the Guardian report said.

Last year, Nextbeat, an IT service provider, set up two “strategic sleeping rooms” – one for men, the other for women – at its headquarters in Tokyo.

The aroma-infused rooms feature devices that block out background noise, allowing workers to stretch out on sofas for an undisturbed kip.

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