https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220720102504.htm
Scientists have challenged the widespread belief that shift workers adjust to the night shift, using data drawn from wearable tech.
It's not the shift that's fucking annoying, if I was nights all week, fine. The bullshit is when it's an inconsistent and changing schedule. Morning, morning, night, off, night, off, morning, etc etc
Every shift schedule I had, had rotations like these. The main reason? So day time management could see how everyone was doing.
Illegal in Oregon and much of the SF Bay Area, for chain stores/retail/hospitality. Hopefully gets expanded.
It was never that nice either, I’d kill for a morning then night, it was always night then morning
Night, night, morning, off, night, morning, off
It's not just your circadian rhythm being fkd. It's your regular, overall sleep pattern. Constant interruptions because civilized life goes on during day hours. Need to go to a bank? Have a plumber over to fix a leak? Go to see a doctor, ironically for sleep issues? Gonna lose sleep to make those "sacrifices."
For those who have never worked shift, it's like getting up at 3am to go see your kids basketball game, then go to work at 8am.
Source: Worked shift for many many years.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Their findings, reported in a study in the Lancet group journal eBioMedicine, are the most detailed analysis of the sleep and circadian rhythm profiles of shift workers yet attempted, and the first to also monitor body temperature.
The research demonstrates the value of telemonitoring technology for identifying early warning signs of disease risks associated with night-shift work opening up intervention opportunities to improve the health of workers.
Both groups wore accelerometers with chest surface temperature sensors throughout the day and night for a full week, with the data collected by the research team at Université Paris-Saclay and Inserm.
Dr Julia Brettschneider of the University of Warwick Department of Statistics said: "I think there's a misunderstanding that night shift work is just an inconvenience, whereas it can be linked to serious health risks.
"Together with our PhD student Yiyuan Zhang, we have developed a statistical analysis framework that enables the discovery of patterns and predictive factors in the complex data sets created by wearable tech."
In addition, the team has the potential in future research to look at more long-term outcomes, such as particular diseases such as cancer that have been linked to disruption of the circadian clock.
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Yup, working shifts since almost 20 years, my only motivation for becoming an entrepreneur is to be able to stop working those hours...
And I am not working for a shit company, we are treated very well and are probably amongst the top 5% luckiest employees in our country. But working shifts sucks, no matter how you sugarcoat it, it still sucks.
I have a sleep disorder which means I can't adjust to a DAY shift. It's trippy, I'm basically the opposite of everyone else. I still work days, because that's how you get promoted. But it's like working a night shift for everyone else. After a few years you adapt, but it's never really normal.
DSPD? I've got that too. It sucks when the rest of the world operates on a totally different schedule than my body's clock.
Yep. My doctor told me about someone who had a non-24hr sleep schedule, so he always wanted to go to sleep at a different time. At least I don't have that. But hearing all the "do things in the morning, when you have more energy" type advice suck.
I work overnights and some shifts are tougher other. We've had plenty of people start off on the overnight shift, and most of them try to switch to another shift as soon possible because they can't handle it. Night shifts can be rough.
Night shift absolutely sucks, and I'm deliberately lax on enforcing many of the store policies because of it. Late for your shift? If your shit gets done, I don't care. Don't like wearing the uniform? I don't either, just put your name tag on before the store opens. Forgot your lunch? Grab something from the cold case or whatever and pay for it when a checker wanders in later.
The only policies I enforce 100% are safety-related. I don't want someone cracking their head open because they were using a pallet jack as a scooter.
I had to leave my job as a 911 call taker/police dispatcher because I was being switched to nights and I was literally unable to adjust when I had had to work nights previously. You'd think a few weeks of the same schedule would be enough to adjust, but nope. It would get to be 3:00 a.m. and I would be falling asleep in my chair.
My store has shift work, but does it in a sane way. The people whose schedules could change bid for schedules on a week by week basis, and they're awarded by seniority. In theory, you could get stuck with a closing shift going into an opening shift, but in practice it never happens because all the opening shifts get snapped up by the senior employees every week.