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Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns)
From: mikea <mikea () mikea ath cx>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:11:45 -0500
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:53:47AM -0500, Chad Dailey wrote:
+1. I'd go to six months, having been the night shift bitch. Flipping shifts around damn near killed me.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Mark Green <ktm200exc () hotmail com> wrote:
Suggestion; once on the 'night shift' stay put for at least three months... Sleep patterns take time to adjust. Jumping between day and night shifts will burn out even the most motivated employee.
Amen. There is evidence that, other things being relatively equal, people working rotating shifts have shorter life expectancies and that the faster the rotation, the shorter the expectancy gets. There also is some evidence that people working rotating shifts are more likely to get cancer. My experience: 6 on, 2 off, 8 hours, rotating to the next later shift: I never, ever got enough sleep -- for 2 years. 6 on, 2 off, 12 hours, straight mids, no rotation: much less bad. 5 on, 2 off, 8 hours, straight mids: quite tolerable. 5 on, 2 off, 8 hours, straight swings (1600-0000): out of phase with the world. YMMV; I expect it to. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mikea () mikea ath cx Tired old sysadmin
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- RE: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns) Mark Green (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns) Chad Dailey (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns) mikea (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns) Jeff Shultz (Apr 15)
- RE: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns) George Bonser (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns) Mark Foster (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns) Jay Ashworth (Apr 17)
- Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns) mikea (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns) Chad Dailey (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns) Vinny Abello (Apr 15)
- Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns) Steven Bellovin (Apr 15)
- RE: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns) George Bonser (Apr 15)