n. A room designated or set up for napping, particularly at a workplace.
2000
So companies opened nap rooms, encouraging workers to take 15- to 30-minute breaks to recharge.
An architectural firm in Kansas City created "spent tents," complete with sleeping bags and CD players, to slide into when you're spent.
An architectural firm in Kansas City created "spent tents," complete with sleeping bags and CD players, to slide into when you're spent.
1998
One of the nation's largest architectural firms, for example, Kansas City-based Gould Evans Goodman Associates, offers three "spent tents" furnished with pillows, blankets and alarm clocks for employees who work long hours when project deadlines loom. "It's out of the way, so you don't feel guilty," said napper and architect Greg Nook, 44.
1998 (earliest)
At the huge Gould Evans Good architectural business in Kansas City, Missouri, stressed-out executives are encouraged to visit the "Spent Tent", where they are provided with clean sheets, a pillow, an alarm clock — and a German shepherd dog called Ginger to pat.
Is workplace napping becoming accepted in the hard-charging North American business world? I'll believe when I see it, but if the number of new words related to napping on the job are any indication, there's at least a pro-nap faction out there. Besides spent tent there's nap room, solitude nook, wellness room, and the very cozy-sounding nap nook. Of course, those of us lucky enough to work at home have a built-in spent tent: the couch!