This is the best summary I could come up with:
Their findings, reported in a study in the Lancet group journal eBioMedicine, are the most detailed analysis of the sleep and circadian rhythm profiles of shift workers yet attempted, and the first to also monitor body temperature.
The research demonstrates the value of telemonitoring technology for identifying early warning signs of disease risks associated with night-shift work opening up intervention opportunities to improve the health of workers.
Both groups wore accelerometers with chest surface temperature sensors throughout the day and night for a full week, with the data collected by the research team at Université Paris-Saclay and Inserm.
Dr Julia Brettschneider of the University of Warwick Department of Statistics said: "I think there’s a misunderstanding that night shift work is just an inconvenience, whereas it can be linked to serious health risks.
“Together with our PhD student Yiyuan Zhang, we have developed a statistical analysis framework that enables the discovery of patterns and predictive factors in the complex data sets created by wearable tech.”
In addition, the team has the potential in future research to look at more long-term outcomes, such as particular diseases such as cancer that have been linked to disruption of the circadian clock.
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Yup, working shifts since almost 20 years, my only motivation for becoming an entrepreneur is to be able to stop working those hours…
And I am not working for a shit company, we are treated very well and are probably amongst the top 5% luckiest employees in our country. But working shifts sucks, no matter how you sugarcoat it, it still sucks.
I have a sleep disorder which means I can’t adjust to a DAY shift. It’s trippy, I’m basically the opposite of everyone else. I still work days, because that’s how you get promoted. But it’s like working a night shift for everyone else. After a few years you adapt, but it’s never really normal.
DSPD? I’ve got that too. It sucks when the rest of the world operates on a totally different schedule than my body’s clock.
Yep. My doctor told me about someone who had a non-24hr sleep schedule, so he always wanted to go to sleep at a different time. At least I don’t have that. But hearing all the “do things in the morning, when you have more energy” type advice suck.
My store has shift work, but does it in a sane way. The people whose schedules could change bid for schedules on a week by week basis, and they’re awarded by seniority. In theory, you could get stuck with a closing shift going into an opening shift, but in practice it never happens because all the opening shifts get snapped up by the senior employees every week.
