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