Dozing off at work is encouraged at mattress brand Casper's headquarters in New York, where employees can have meetings or take naps on beds provided at the office, designed by local firm Float Studio.
The fast-growing bedding company recently moved to a two-floor office in Manhattan's Flatiron District, designed by Float to reflect the brand's abundant New York subway advertisements.

"The reception and town hall required the most reworking," Etnier said. "We needed to open it up to provide enough space for the entire team to congregate as a whole."
The designers saved resources elsewhere by exposing the ceilings and leaving much of the brickwork revealed. This also brightened the interior and contributed to the morning-like quality of the main floor.
There are three of these rooms dispersed across the office, resembling blue boxes.
One is located behind the reception desk, on the east edge of the town hall space, and offers storage.

The area in front acts as a dining space and a place for watching presentations.
"A company's culture that previously felt intimate can spiral out after the company experiences rapid growth," said Etnier. "The town hall is a place to draw the increasingly divergent teams together."

Across the rest of the work area, desks sit in rows among the exposed brick columns. Small offices and conference rooms with glass partitions take up the northeast corner.
A staircase to the left of the reception leads up t...