Rest is more.
Rest is one of the basic human needs – we all need it. If you are well rested and recovered, you feel good, and if you feel good, you do good.
Our story
Time – year 2010
Place – Charles de Gaulle Airport, Terminal 2, Paris.
I was traveling across Europe on my motorbike. While driving through France, my engine seized and the misery began! After a call to my insurance company, the misery continued. I took a taxi directly to Paris airport and once the insurance was sorted out, I booked the next flight back home to Finland.
Person at the counter told me, the next flight available was only in the early morning and as always, the airport hotel was fully booked – the misery! My only option was to sleep at the airport and wait for the morning flight – a night of misery was ahead.
At midnight, totally asleep. I was dreaming like somebody was pushing me with a broom handle. The next thing, I woke up and there really was a cleaner pushing me with an actual broom stick. He wasn’t happy, because I had just some hours ago, removed all the handles from a long seat to have this much needed comfort and rest before my flight. The cleaner shouted at me (in French) that he will call the security. I quickly reassembled the handles back on the seating and thought “there has to be a solution for this; safe and private short rest” – but there wasn’t.
Two years later, 2012, we launched our first ever commercial project of GoSleep at Abu Dhabi Airport with 10 GoSleep Pods, eventually scaling up to 33 sleeping pods. This is how our story started..
In the end, misery was our motivation to create the GoSleep pay-per-use concept. This service is meant for all the passengers traveling around the world.
Today, GoSleep Pods have found their way to dozens of airports, hospitals, offices, sports clubs and universities. With the benefits of a short rest enjoyed by various industries, GoSleep has extended its international distributor network, as well as workforce from Finland to UK.
Rest is more.
Jussi Piispanen
Founder
