It’s safe to say that working long hours (>8, but especially >12) is unhealthy and detrimental to the workers’ efficiency. Why do many employers still make their employees work in such long shifts? Medical Doctors and security guards come to my mind straight away. Why not just rotate 3 people within the day to cover it with 8 hour shifts, so that you have rested employees who perform better and make fewer mistakes? Especially since employers usually pay extra for the long shifts and can’t have that employee come in again for 24 or even 48 hours. Someone please shed some light on this…
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Garbage man here – anyone operating a vehicle for long period obviously it’s not healthy and eventually becomes dangerous. However, if I’m in one county and my drivers route is in a whole other county, I can’t really afford to have him drive all the way back to home base to trade drivers. Meanwhile another trash truck might be in a third county collecting trash, so I can’t reasonably send a smaller vehicle to take the ‘second shift’ out to meet the trash trucks either. If I’m going to make it to the end of my route and get to the landfill on time with all 5 trucks, the only option I have is to make it 14 hour days. Unless you can buy me another 5 trucks or so and find people with Commercial Drivers Licenses willing to operate them, in which case I’d be happy to give you my left nut.
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