On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:41 26PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Mark Green wrote: > >> >> Suggestion; once on the 'night shift' stay put for at least three months... >> Sleep patterns take time to adjust. Jumping between day and night shifts >> will burn out even the most motivated employee. >> > > What we found was that we would find people who wanted to be on the night > shift, and would NOT like to be changed, at all. Some people like night > work, or have family situations where it is ideal for them. >
Yah. Read the current news coverage about sleeping U.S. air traffic controllers, especially the articles about how hard it is to switch shifts, and very especially if you do it often. --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb