Are $15 Nap Breaks the New Lunch Breaks?

Urban ‘resting studios’ offer personal sleeping pods to weary workers looking for a midday recharge. But that’s a lot to pay for nothingness

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I HAVE 200 EMAILS to answer, pointless meetings to attend, extravagant expenses to submit, but it’s 2 p.m. and I’m hobbling through a productivity slump. Science says short daytime naps could improve alertness and work performance, but I can’t just drop my head on my desk to catch a few ZZZZs and, unfortunately, my office is a long way off from installing napping pods a la Facebook and Google.

So instead I sneak away to a nearby “nap studio,” where I can actually pay to rest my soul before going another round with my inbox....