Re: 365x24x7

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 02:48:16PM +1200, Mark Foster wrote:
> On Fri, April 22, 2011 1:38 pm, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen () mompl net> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > I Fully agree.
> > >
> > > I think it may pay off to search for people who suffer "Delayed sleep
> > > phase
> > > syndrome" to do night shift. They'll be happy and you'll actually have
> > > someone who is more awake and alert than the average person at that time
> > > of
> > > day.
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome
> > >
> > > I think the IT world has a more than average incidence of people with
> > > this
> > > particular syndrome, at least in my experience.
> > >
> > > Of course in practice you would want to word your vacancy in such a way
> > > it
> > > doesn't sound silly. But I think it could be worth it to put an emphasis
> > > on
> > > it.
> >
> > I'd just go with "people who really enjoy energy drinks."
>
>
> Many of you folks actually worked Nightshift for any duration?
> Most folks I know working in shifts are either IT folks or Emergency
> Services folks.  Both groups recognise the value of actually having
> conventional working hours, at least for part of the time.
> Folks on permanent night-shift risk becoming isolated from a good chunk of
> society and I would expect to see some churn over time.
>
> One watch centre I worked with used to run a 3 week rotation of days,
> 'lates' and 'overnights' which averaged out to 40hrs/week during the
> course of the year.
>
> Another used something similar to the 2days-2nights-4off model I mentioned
> previously.
>
> The remainder split the overnight work into weeknights and weekends, and
> tended to attract students for the weekend shifts.
>
> Mark.

        night/early morning  by  preference for nearly 20 years....
        YMMV.

/bill