The shift-work culture means working until time is up, rather than until work is done.
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Shift-work at awkward hours and six-day weeks are becoming more common.
Attending to all administrative matters pertaining to the Unit, including the Composition Unit, ensuring the proper and timely preparation of all types of reports, leave plans, shift-work timetables, etc.
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For the research on shift-working suggests that human beings are ill-adapted to working at night, says Simon Folkard, who studies shift-work from the University of Wales in Swansea.
For one, female soldiers tend to have more risk factors for breast cancer including chemical exposures, longterm use of oral contraceptives and nighttime shift-work than their civilian peers.
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And when sleeping pills aren't enough to help patients stay alert, a wakefulness drug called Provigil is already approved for excessive daytime sleepiness caused by narcolepsy, sleep apnea and shift-work sleep disorder--the exhaustion brought on in some people by working the night shift.
Pregnant women whose job is physically demanding - or who do shift work - could face more childbirth problems, say scientists.
Many people already use Provigil to cope with night-shift work, jet lag and lack of sleep, and suffer few side-effects.
Instead of working a 12-hour shift, the firefighters now work 24-hour shifts, including 12 working hours and 12 standby hours.
Commanders at Creech say that if there is stress, it comes from relentless around-the-clock shift work.
One suspect in this shift to part-time work is the cost of providing health insurance, especially with ObamaCare looming.
But I think there is another reason driving this shift to part-time service work.
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Everywhere I traveled last year, this shift to part-time service work was the main topic of discussion resort owners, hotel employees, waiters and retail clerks all discussed, and generally lamented, the changes.
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To blame is not merely night shift work but shifting shifts--rotations from morning to afternoon to graveyard.
Einstein's equations first written down in 1905 and 1915 are used to correct for this time-shift, allowing GPS to work, planes to navigate safely and you to get to your relations' house at the other end of the country without getting lost this Christmas.
It's what we're seeing in the dissolution of archaic markets and business models, and in the creation of new ones - a highly efficient, individual-driven community shift towards solutions that work, and that carry more than just precedent.
She spent three months waking up at 4 a.m. to work a three-hour shift.
Chicago firemen currently work a 24-hour shift followed by two days off.
The codebreaking work at Bletchley marked a shift - Mr Lobban argued - to a mindset that "started to see technology as something that could be pitted against technology".
Even if Americans are better at it than Bangladeshis, both countries gain if Americans outsource their garment-sewing work to Bangladesh firms and shift American resources into producing the things we do even better than they.
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Dr. Sleeth: I was so stressed out working the 24-hour shift I felt overwhelmed by my work.
The problems are familiar, too: any old-fangled manufacturer with a continuous process knows that shift work needs careful management.
But her light bulb moment didn't come until she was driving home from work, tired after an all-night shift in the emergency room.
These two models - one with the week of nights compared to two and three days stints - are commonly used by employers that operate shift or night work.
Two-thirds of the work is done on the latter shift, between 10 PM and 2 AM.
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From 30% to 50% of all night shift workers fall asleep at work every week, even in high-stakes operations like nuclear power plants.
The main complaint is that Mayer is fighting an inexorable shift to telecommuting and remote working that is giving millions better work-life balance, increased productivity and concentration, and less commute time and stress.
And oh, by the way, if you convince enough people to work harder and longer and shift investments away from inefficient tax-advantaged government securities into private sector securities, the economy will grow.
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Those managing the work had to shift from being controllers of individuals to enablers of self-organizing teams, with responsibility for establishing priorities in a timely fashion and removing impediments as they are identified, rather than controlling each worker.
What my colleagues and I are discovering from our own work in Alaskan tundra is that this shift in vegetation cover has implications -- some good, some bad -- for the animals that depend on it for food and shelter.
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