How to prevent employees from sleeping at work

Employees in their night shift generally found sleeping or taking nap in between work. But with increasing stress, changing environment and many more reasons employees working on day shift also feeling sleepy these days. Organizations find it as an act of unprofessionalism and can terminate him/her from job immediately. This act is stricter in departments like police, civil services and defense services. But in other hand, many companies providing nap rooms for their employees. In any case, to prevent and help employees from sleeping for any reason, two main steps must be adopted by a company. First step is to analyze the reason of problem and previous performances of the employee then second step is to help them to not get sleepy during work, if they are efficient and hard working employees your company needs. Apart from nap rooms, here are some ideas to prevent them from sleeping at work.

1) Giving a verbal warning is a good suggestion. In actual it should be a humble way of knowing the cause instead of being rude before giving any official warning.

2) Consult the employee who is suffering from fatigue or fighting to stay awake. Suggest him/her to make a change in their work shift which is suitable for them.

3) If the employee is punctual at submitting his work, he/she can even work from his/her home.

4) Shifting the employee workplace to more ventilated and place where there is natural light so he can feel fresh and active.

5) Make the employee to drink plenty of water, green tea and coffee to stay hydrated and avoid feeling tired.

6) Allow them to listen to some music on headphones so that they get sleepy during work.

7) Instruments like doze alerts is a great idea as it start making noise when the employee’s head droop due to sleeping.

Even after adopting all these ways, if they still sleep at work then an official warning can be issued to him/her.