From the op-ed pages of today’s New York Times:
Manhattan now has MetroNaps, a collection of high-tech individual sleep pods on the 24th floor of the Empire State Building. There you can go offline for about the same cost, $14 for 20 minutes, as going online in the Atlanta airport. It’s not certain that this idea will catch on, although nobody blinks at the thought of paying to sleep overnight in the city in a hotel room. But the idea of making your way to Midtown and up to the 24th floor, and then paying for a nap seems to contradict the very spirit of napping. Which is, simply, to nod off.
The fact that there aren’t many good places to nap in New York does not mean that there isn’t a nearly universal need to nap. Every afternoon about 2:45 the city settles into a temporary coma. You can feel the biological lights dimming. Commuters do everything they can to save it for the train home. Cubicle-workers slump against the dividers or drool on their desks as productively as possible. As for those poor people trapped in PowerPoint presentations – well, for them there is no help.
I am a big believer in snoozing so this is important stuff. Hmm…let me see. 14 USD = about 19 CND times three equals….59 bucks for an hour’s nap?!?!
Who naps for 20 minutes? That is called a day dream. Some clarification around the definitions would be nice before we start calling it “the napping industry“. Napping consultant. I could do that. Google shows it is a clear subject. First, though, I have to perfect my disruption analysis theory for business consulting.