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shiftwork

/ ˈʃɪڳˌɜː /

noun

  1. a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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So much so, that recently the World Health Organization classified any form of night-time shiftwork as a probable carcinogen.

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As a mom who works shiftwork, my commute is basically my only stress free me time.

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Scheduling low-wage shiftwork, particularly in the service and retail sector, is increasingly “optimized” by algorithms that use real-time big data sets to predict sales patterns and create the most efficient ratios between workers, consumers, and material resources.

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The main problem is not just the night shifts, and the accompanying possible health issues, but the under-regulated culture of shiftwork per se.

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