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How is an 8 hour a day shift incompatible with healthy sleep?

• Broken_Hippo 4y ago
  Lots of folks don't work at the same time daily, and more work a shift that makes them sleep less due to children (Second shift, but has to get up to get the kid off to school). A good deal of other folks have long commutes or can't get out after 8 hours (their shift is 8 hours plus an hour lunch or standard 10 hours). It doesn't seem that hard to get unhealthy sleep patterns in a workday.
• wahnfrieden 4y ago
  You don’t know many full time workers who struggle with sleep? Sometimes I find myself awake and alert after 4 hours of sleep. Now when I crash some hours later after that, I sleep for a couple more hours and work more after instead of suffering through meetings and commute without break. I no longer use an alarm and let myself wake naturally. If I'm incapacitated from insomnia, I do housework or rest and work as my energy returns. Employers have no tolerance for this kind of flexibility beyond some isolated incidents. Yes I work with others too, this doesn't only work for lone wolf arrangements. I'll add that I also suffer from RSI and the same applies there: if I injure my hands, I can make my own decision to use them less for some time to give them the rest they need, and shift what sort of work I do or how I spend my time meanwhile to accommodate (because I don't have rigidly defined role expectations as wage earners do).