On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 >
I've worked night shift as a police officer, 8 x 5. Some of those guys were there for 20+ years and no one seemed to have a serious issue with it. -- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team [email protected] | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications - AS32421 First and Leading in DDoS Protection Solutions
