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Re: 365x24x7
From: Adam Atkinson <ghira () mistral co uk>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:09:48 +0100
Bill Stewart wrote:
Rotating shifts between daytime and nighttime is a horrible thing to do to your workers, both for their health and their attention span. Full-time night work isn't great, but rotating work is even worse. Apes are generally diurnal, not nocturnal or crepuscular. Shuffling who has to work which days is annoying enough.
I spent several months working in a place with rotating shifts. One week 10pm to 7am, then the next week 2pm to 10pm then the week after 7am to 2pm and then repeat. I never understood why they were different lengths either. It was pretty grim and I'd much prefer to have had shifts change ever few months.
Some people claimed they'd have preferred it if we'd changed to the _following_ shift rater than the preceding shift each week but never having tried that I don't know how it would be.
Current thread:
- Re: 365x24x7, (continued)
- Re: 365x24x7 Steve Clark (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 Alex Brooks (Apr 15)
- RE: 365x24x7 Sanders, Randall K (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 Tony Finch (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 harbor235 (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 Paul Graydon (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 Jay Ashworth (Apr 17)
- Re: 365x24x7 Robert Bonomi (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 Dave CROCKER (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 Bill Stewart (Apr 17)
- Re: 365x24x7 Adam Atkinson (Apr 17)
- Re: 365x24x7 Wayne Lee (Apr 17)
- Re: 365x24x7 Skeeve Stevens (Apr 17)
- Re: 365x24x7 Barry Shein (Apr 17)
- Re: 365x24x7 John Levine (Apr 17)
- Re: 365x24x7 Adam Atkinson (Apr 17)
- Re: 365x24x7 Michael Young (Apr 17)
- Re: 365x24x7 Bill Stewart (Apr 17)
- Re: 365x24x7 Jeroen van Aart (Apr 21)
- Re: 365x24x7 Jeffrey Lyon (Apr 21)
- Re: 365x24x7 Mark Foster (Apr 21)
- Re: 365x24x7 bmanning (Apr 21)