Work Better

Drowsiness on the job costs US businesses $18 billion a year in lost productivity,¹ and sleep deprivation can have a serious effect on a person’s health, increasing the risk of everything from daytime drowsiness to a shortened life span, obesity, slower reaction time, memory problems, irritability, anxiety and depression.²

Most employers now agree that regular breaks during the workday can dramatically increase performance and alertness while decreasing stress. A 2002 Harvard study confirmed that a power nap can make a world of difference in improved performance, focus and ability to concentrate.³ Sara Mednick of the Salk Institute says, “A short nap can be a real pick-me-up, and now it seems that a long nap may even help you to learn”.⁴

“Napping may protect brain circuits from overuse until those neurons can consolidate what has been learned,” says neuroscientist Robert Stickgold of Harvard Medical School.⁵

“Naps are one of the most powerful alertness strategies,” says Mark Rosekind, PhD, president and chief scientist at Alertness Solutions. “It is the only strategy that gets directly to the 'sleep debt' we rack up at night when we don't get the amount we need.” ⁶

With the emergence of these new scientific studies, corporations are beginning to look at power naps as a “secret weapon” to stay ahead of the competition by keeping their employees alert, healthy, happy and productive.

YeloNaps^SM, our proprietary sleep therapy system, were conceived based on the premise that employees’ time is your most precious commodity. We have organized our customer path around the notion of “in and out” in 30 minutes, so it’s easy to fit in a YeloNap at lunchtime or break time. Our environment, the YeloCabs^TM, delivers such a powerful experience that a 20-minute treatment will provide a strong refresher for the rest of your day. After a YeloNap, long meetings become bearable, spreadsheets get interesting, PowerPoint presentations entertaining, budgets fascinating. OK, now we’re getting carried away. But you get the picture. Yelo is good for you and good for your company’s bottom line.

1 Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 2003
2 J. Maas, author of Power Napping, quoted by H. Hatfield, WebMD.com
3 A. Motluk, New Scientist, Issue 2345, 1 June, 2002
4 Lancet 6.28.03
5 Science News, 1 June, 2002, vol 161, Issue 22, p 341
6 Hatfield, WebMd.com