Not all workplaces have adequate areas for staff to rest in, particularly if your work is carried out in an unusual place, so it takes some creative thinking to find somewhere to kick back for a couple of minutes. Here, we take a look at some of the most uncomfortable and/or creative places to rest at work.
Life on the road can be tough
Truck driver Colin Howarth spends most of his time on the road and finds getting to sleep in a cab hard but necessary. One day, while sleeping in a Volvo day cab, he woke up to find he’d lost all feeling in the left-hand side of his body.
Naptime!
Tom Bourlet from PROCOAL is a self-confessed serial napper at work. His workplace recently built a mini studio, which is empty a lot of the time, so he takes advantage by converting into a little nap pad.
Construction workers make the most of the tools available to them
Reddit user bogmansaha once slept on a construction site on a plasterboard “desk” wrapped in a plastic bag because it was cold.
This construction worker just wanted a bit of shut-eye, so he created a bed out of insulation material. He does look pretty warm and cosy...
Keith White from Higher Nature once knew a colleague who created a ‘nap zone’ behind the staff lockers in the basement. He pulled the lockers forward around three feet from the wall and placed rubbish at each end to give the illusion of rubbish storage. However, there were three office chairs lined up with their backs removed, creating a sort of bed.
He would sleep down there on his lunch, and no-one knew of this until two years later when he was heard snoring!
When you just need five mins away from everyone
Andy Pearce, CEO of thortful, likes to take his giant bean bag on to the fire escape for some peace and quiet while he reflects.
Have you got a story to tell about an uncomfortable or unusual place you’ve found to take a rest at work? We’d love to hear from you - send us your stories, images and videos on Facebook or Twitter and we’ll add them to the roundup.
Testimonials
We approached Bunkabin in 2015 to deliver a turnkey accommodation solution for our performers from around the world who were performing at Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebrations at Windsor this year. Subsequently 200 Bunkabins were ordered and work started on the planning of such a major logistical operation. In 22 days, 200 Bunkabins, complete with bedding kits, were delivered and installed and when our performers arrived they were amazed that we could offer an on-site solution that offered everything they needed. It made for a real village atmosphere with all nations joining together and we couldn’t have asked for more.
Bunkabins drivers were amazing – taking great care when loading and offloading not to damage the grass in the Private Grounds of Her Majesty The Queen and all in all the Bunkabins worked perfectly
Nick Brooks-Ward, H Power Group - Event Planning Services
Over the last 6 years we have increased the Student Village from initially 30 up to currently 274 en-suite Student Sleepers. The Student Village Company provide us with a flexible accommodation capacity, so as long as we have land available, we no longer need to turn away a student because of accommodation shortages.
It is very difficult to predict exact intake numbers however The Student Village Company are able to provide additional capacity only a few weeks before freshers week. The decking, canopy and decals make an enormous difference. The students love them.
While Bunkabins aren’t complicated... There will undoutedly be a raft of questions you will need answering. So with this in mind, we have compiled a list of the most frequently asked ones and, handily, provided the answers to boot.
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The Royal Navy found themselves requiring 302 more bed than they had available. Rather than costly and time-consuming building work being initiated an alternative tempory solution was sort and…
Her Majesty’s 90th Birthday Party was a celebration of The Queen’s life and involved more than 1,500 participants from around the United Kingdom and the World. It focused on her love of horses, her…
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