rotating shift
Changing work hours
A rotating shift is a work schedule where employees alternate between different time periods—such as days, evenings, and nights—rather than working fixed hours.
Common in hospitals, factories, and emergency services that require round-the-clock staffing: She's exhausted from working rotating shifts.
The schedule distributes undesirable hours more equitably but can disrupt sleep patterns and personal life.
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
- schedulePlan of timed events
- rosterList of members
- clockDevice displaying time
- overtimeWork beyond scheduled hours
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- workforceworkers, employee, employees, labor force, employer
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Unchanging work hours
fixed schedule · regular hours · day shift · nine-to-five · banker's hours
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