Furthermore, a single light switch turns on a quarter of an acre of lights. The largest office building in the world is the Pentagon. Still, no two offices in the building are more than six minutes walking time from each other. In China, factory workers and office personnel alike regularly take a nap after lunch. Many Japanese companies provide employees with quiet, darkened relaxation rooms.
Nothing is so civilized as a siesta.
He feels that American businesses could improve productivity by encouraging a little napping now and then. The metal clips alone account for an annual U.S. steel consumption of 10,000 tons. Lloyd's Bank of London undertook an extraordinary study to discover exactly what happens to a typical batch of paperclips in their office building. All in all, only 20,000 out of the original 100,000 were used to clip paper. Researchers for 3M who were trying to invent the world's strongest glue ironically invented the world's weakest glue, and had no idea what it could be used for.