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Emma Burleigh

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby lies on his office floor and takes 20-minute naps—and he says it doesn’t mean he’s accomplished any less

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby (Credit: PATRICK T. FALLON—Getty Images)

CEOs have their own quirks when it comes to running their companies, from shoes-off policies to meeting-free afternoons. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said an office nap is his trick to staying sharp over his decades-long career in business.

“A thing I do that people have thought is weird is that, throughout my whole career, when I’m in the office, I’ll close the door and take a 20-minute nap,” Kirby recently said in an interview with McKinsey and Company. 

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