Not all businesses operate during standard business hours. Industries such as health care, manufacturing and transportation often have employees working around the clock. Since many employees prefer ...

Train and bus drivers, doctors and carers, employees in companies where machines run around the clock: In many industries, people work in shifts. Some start early in the morning, or at midday. Others ...

A new study adds to the research that night-shift work can be deadly, increasing breast cancer risk and speeding it's spread, ...

Night shift work requires people to work while most people, including family and friends, sleep. A study of shift workers reported in the 2007 proceedings of the Decision Science Institute found a ...

Night shifts are considered to be an impediment to alertness and performance as a result of sleep loss and a change in natural circadian rhythms. Across the world, healthcare workers comprise the ...