I want one.
Why not? I think the advent of wireless keyboards and mice make it practical and my cubicle is exactly the right size.
Let’s do a comparison:
| Chair | Hammock |
|---|---|
| Is expensive | Cheap, Cheap, Cheap! |
| Has fiddly levers that break | Lever free since 400BC! |
| Makes my back hurt | Provides safety from disease, insect stings, and animal bites. Very comfortable, too! |
| Is made of awful manufactured plastic | Made of all natural, sweet-smelling hemp. |
| Looks just like everyone else’s chair | Can be personalized with beads and ribbons |
| Is a bulky pig of a thing that causes grief when the department has to move offices. Again. | Roll it up and go! |
| Makes you cranky and less productive. | Encourages regular cat naps, which increase alertness and overall productivity! |
The only people you will hear arguing against hammocks at the office will use words like ‘professionalism’ and ‘inproprietous’. This means you have no obligation to listen to them.
It has to be, I tell you. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
And to make the final conclusive evidence, I ask you, dear reader…
Have you ever seen a bear this comfortable in an office chair?
Bear in a hammock
6 Responses to "Hammocks at the office."
Nice.
Bear in a hammock?? Proof positive that those things are far too dangerous to have in an office.
There are some remedies for the contra-chair arguments: Add some comfy/ergonomically correct cushions to that hunk of plastic and you’ve personalized and “comfortized” your monster in the cubicle.
from the wikipedia article:
“The sides of traditional canvas naval hammocks wrap around the sleeper like a cocoon, making an inadvertent fall virtually impossible.”
On the con side, they also make advertant exits virtually impossible.
@Lila: “Bear in a hammock?? Proof positive that those things are far too dangerous to have in an office.”
Actually bears are optional on all office hammocks except those found on Wall and Bay Streets.
But just try attaching your hammock to the walls of your cubicle. This makes inadvertent falls virtually inevitable.
“But just try attaching your hammock to the walls of your cubicle. This makes inadvertent falls virtually inevitable.”
No, because my colleague in the cubicle on the opposite side will counter-balance.
@ A Lurkar
advertant vs. inadvertant exits
You need to sit as in a chinchorro rather than the “naval”/navel hammock.
See http://www.shop.honeymoonhammocks.com/images/11800227271632036771735.jpeg