The International Agency for Cancer Research has previously identified working shift patterns that disrupt the body's natural "clock" as a probable cause of cancer.
Dean was working a shift at the Home Depot, managing the electrical department, when the siren rang out.
They also do a good job of replicating the sitdown feeling of driving, complete with the working gear shift, pedals and steering wheel.
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Republicans Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is trying to ditch his state's income tax while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is working to shift people off his state's Medicaid rolls and onto private insurance.
Consultants have told the BBC there are also concerns over staffing the emergency department, covering holiday and sick leave, and the fact that the rest of the hospital system does not follow a seven-day working pattern shift, which has a knock on effect especially at the weekends.
And when sleeping pills aren't enough to help patients stay alert, a wakefulness drug called Provigil is already approved for excessive daytime sleepiness caused by narcolepsy, sleep apnea and shift-work sleep disorder--the exhaustion brought on in some people by working the night shift.
For the research on shift-working suggests that human beings are ill-adapted to working at night, says Simon Folkard, who studies shift-work from the University of Wales in Swansea.
Berman started at ABC News as a desk assistant working the overnight shift in 1995.
Saturday when he came home from working the graveyard shift at a homeless shelter, Houston said.
The Department of Health suggested that the spread of infection and the demands of shift working were contributing factors.
"There are days when you're up early or working a long shift and have to go straight to training, " he said.
When Isaac wrote of working the late shift at the tea shop, parents wrote saying they could never let their girls do that.
Typical Jim Donald stories involve him getting behind a deli counter for a day or working a third shift in a warehouse to buck up his employees.
Of the 42 police officers working the morning shift at Kennedy Airport on Friday, for example, 21 were paid through overtime, according to the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association, the officers' union.
I've seen it from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift and we'd have lunch there on the change of the shifts and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio Bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to.
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Instead of working a 12-hour shift, the firefighters now work 24-hour shifts, including 12 working hours and 12 standby hours.
The government was working productively to "shift the focus" of treatment towards patients' long-term recovery and reintegration into society and a new payments-by-results approach to incentivise recovery outcomes was being piloted in eight areas.
Those models may not hold up once people start working them or the markets shift for unpredicted reasons.
He spent enough time in them to learn they could be very uncomfortable for anybody working an 8-hour shift or longer.
Dr. Ferrari: For one, we're working on lessening errors in shift changes at the hospitals, redesigning the mechanical and human processes in order to make that transition a safer one.
Such protection often involves as many as 16 officers working eight hours of overtime per shift, he said.
The jobs involve dropping in to support several different people in one day, working on a rota and a shift system.
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CalMac is to meet the staff's union on Tuesday to discuss changes to weekend and shift allowances, night working payments and annual holiday bonuses.
"A lot of fire and rescue authorities are actually making the savings not by cutting fire and rescue posts, not by closing fire stations, but by shared operations, better joint working, and interestingly, amended shift practices, " he said.
The shift-work culture means working until time is up, rather than until work is done.
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Likewise, many office workers could avoid a drop in productivity by anticipating the extra day off, working overtime to compensate for the lost shift.
The main complaint is that Mayer is fighting an inexorable shift to telecommuting and remote working that is giving millions better work-life balance, increased productivity and concentration, and less commute time and stress.
In a forthcoming study of voters undertaken after the recent presidential elections, Nonna Mayer, a professor at Sciences Po, argues that the increase in support for the National Front can almost entirely be put down to a shift in the allegiance of working-class women.
"I think this reflects a more fundamental shift in how international politics is working, " he said.
The Free Press reports that GM made a similar shift of engineering staff that was working on development of gas-electric hybrid technology in 2003.
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