Share your views on night shifts

@parpande (1515)
Bangalore, India
September 16, 2016 10:48pm CST
Night Shifts: As the name suggests , it is the period of night time worked in many companies and organisations as there are certain business kept operational for all 24 hours and 7 days . Night shift is one of such a way that helps in achieving round the clock business needs . In elaboration , there are service oriented business, Outsourcing and Product support that operates with a roster plan to shuffle the shifts amongst their team members. Though, it is difficult for an individual to establish good work life balance , it strengthens the vendor growth at the same time . Besides growth , there are drawbacks in considerable number against any business beneficiaries. In order to survey for night shifts , the hardships and inconvenience should be primarily studied . As soon as a roster is disseminated , every members run their eyes against their names to find out the days in number he needs to work during night. The reactions and responses usually varies from a person to the other . Highlighting the people who negates against third shift ,for them it is the span of challenges to keep awake, alert and to work. They are more likely to become prey of addictions , smoking and some might also have dark coffees that makes severe vulnerabilities to health. On the other hand, bunch of people advocates working in odd hours as they believe it enables them to earn allowances and time during the day . In contrary, it is often complained against and asked for work from home flexibility . Women employees frequently have strong denial to work while such period due to security concerns. Alternatively , working from home is quiet effective and adaptive to overcome the night barriers. It flexes woman and married workforce as well to contribute in offbeat timings. Nevertheless , the exceptions are banking and ecommerce domains as they do not encourage to adapt work from home. Conclusively, in order to settle the shift hurdles management must vigilantly rotate the shifts and they should be responsive to employee concerns. Share your views on night shifts
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
20 Sep 16
I have never, never worked on a night shift, so can't say much about it, except that I would HATE it.
@ricki_911 (21625)
• Toronto, Ontario
17 Sep 16
I worked the night shift for 9 years not alot can handle. It does wear on your body.