Shifts rotating like a funfair ride
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techrecoveryJust a quick question for everyone.
If you work rotating shifts - that is, you work one shift for a period, then switch to a different shift, then cycle back (possibly via a third shift etc) to the original hours, what's the length of time between switches?
At work, we're currently running on a one-week changeover, with an ABCABD shift pattern (six-week cycle). My concern is that having to change our sleeping patterns every week is not good for health, morale, or consistency in after-work activities. It seems to generate a kind of continual low-level jetlag.
I'm toying with suggesting that the shift changes be lengthened to six or twelve weeks (or three calendar months), so that we get time to adjust before we have to reset our alarm clocks yet again. Management is reasonably flexible on such things as long as the hours are covered somehow - we've changed a couple of times in the past few years.
However, to agitate effectively for extending the period between shift switches, I'm going to need some good, solid arguments (or better, evidence) on my side.
Does anyone know where I can get some corroborating information, or does your workplace already use long rotation periods?
If you work rotating shifts - that is, you work one shift for a period, then switch to a different shift, then cycle back (possibly via a third shift etc) to the original hours, what's the length of time between switches?
At work, we're currently running on a one-week changeover, with an ABCABD shift pattern (six-week cycle). My concern is that having to change our sleeping patterns every week is not good for health, morale, or consistency in after-work activities. It seems to generate a kind of continual low-level jetlag.
I'm toying with suggesting that the shift changes be lengthened to six or twelve weeks (or three calendar months), so that we get time to adjust before we have to reset our alarm clocks yet again. Management is reasonably flexible on such things as long as the hours are covered somehow - we've changed a couple of times in the past few years.
However, to agitate effectively for extending the period between shift switches, I'm going to need some good, solid arguments (or better, evidence) on my side.
Does anyone know where I can get some corroborating information, or does your workplace already use long rotation periods?
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