[139900] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 365x24x7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Lyon)
Thu Apr 21 22:54:23 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110422025150.GA3252@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:53:26 -0400
From: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:51 PM, <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> 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 <jeroen@mompl.net> wr=
ote:
>> >> 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 hav=
e
>> >> someone who is more awake and alert than the average person at that t=
ime
>> >> 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 w=
ay
>> >> it
>> >> doesn't sound silly. But I think it could be worth it to put an empha=
sis
>> >> 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. =A0Both 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 mention=
ed
>> previously.
>>
>> The remainder split the overnight work into weeknights and weekends, and
>> tended to attract students for the weekend shifts.
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0night/early morning =A0by =A0preference for nearly 20 year=
s....
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0YMMV.
>
> /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.
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