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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The short answer is that companies, under capitalism, are basically just evil Excel spreadsheets, and they don’t view their employees as living, breathing, suffering human beings. Workers are just the means to their profit, so they will work us as hard and as long as they can. I used to pull 12 hour shifts packing boxes, among other jobs that didn’t give a shit about my struggling.
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