The work ethic sees it as implying laziness, lack of drive, disdain for one's job. Fred's limbering up his mind for the Jones contract. Some advertising and p.r. Workplace siestas might prove a more propitious offering to the god of productivity than coffee-makers and gymnasiums. A report on British sleep habits last month indicates that insufficient sleeps temporarily drops IQ by a point or two, which is the last thing the Jones contract needs.
Computers have the equivalent of siestas.
And computers can't, perchance, dream. Sleep deprivation does not necessarily lead to madness. Busquets's siesta shops are in fact decently-looking brothels. The longer the siesta, the better the concentration afterwards. In 1965, Randy Gardner proved the theory that sleep deprivation leads to madness stayed awake longer than scientists expected to be healthy earned a lot of money by taking part in a medical experiment slept for more than two days after staying awake for more than 264 hours 2.