Long Shift Schedules
The cluster discusses long work shifts like 12-hour, 16-hour, or 24-hour rotations in professions such as healthcare, firefighting, and manufacturing, debating health impacts, handoff risks, sleep deprivation, employee preferences, and regulatory comparisons.
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Technically a day is not a hard constraint in the short term. Maybe if you do one 36h shift, however unlikely, produces fewer errors than a 12h shift with 2 hand-offs. Long term we know about adverse health effects of inconsistent sleeping patterns, so those would factor in as well.
Hello, and is the work at night all the time, or is it shift based only one week a month? Because that's what happens with people that work at hospitals, night guards etc. to avoid harming the workers health in the long-term.
They work 24/7, I don't think you can presume their "A staff" always works day shifts.
It's actually 11h of mandatory downtime "between shifts"; this does indeed provide for theoretical opportunity to get good sleep for people with a short enough commute.
Your people are doing 12-hour shifts every day, and only get sick at weekends?? I call shenanigans.
AFAIK they work in shifts, non-stop; crazy hours & weekend is irrelevant in this context.
Definitely is impossible for some parts of the world/schedules. 8 hours can be completely overlapped by a shift. One job I had I never saw sunlight during the week in winter.
so hospitals can never use this? their doctors and nurses, who are "employees" regularily work 12 hour shifts. the same goes for first responders
You're usually on-call for a fairly humane shift, not 24h a day.
Seems like the only way to regularly work 48hr shifts.