The staff fell asleep at 8pm when all was quiet, and all the people were presumably in their rooms for the night. The people being served in this house demonstrated low needs which allowed them to have unsupervised time, contributing to the staff feeling comfortable to lie down.

It was common knowledge among staff that the clients demonstrated low needs, contributing to the staff feeing comfortable to lie down.  An additional influence in staff falling asleep is that the staff laid down to try out a newly purchased weighted blanket    

