shift worker
Rotating schedule laborer
A shift worker is someone whose job follows a schedule outside the traditional nine-to-five workday—typically rotating through morning, evening, and overnight hours.
Nurses, factory workers, and security guards are common shift workers.
The term often carries connotations of irregular sleep patterns and disrupted social life: Shift workers have higher rates of certain health problems.
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
- overtimeWork beyond scheduled hours
- rotatingTurning on an axis
- schedulePlan of timed events
- fatigueWeariness from prolonged exertion
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- workersemployee, employees, laborer, laborers, wage earner
- factory floorassembly line, conveyor belt, forklift, machine operator, production line
- sleep-deprivedinsomniac, new parent, new mom, new dad, resident
- temp worktemp, temps, temp agency, temping, warehouse temp
- textile workerstailor, dressmaker, weaver, weavers, spinner
- early riserslark, rooster, farmer, baker
shift workerfreelancer
Self-employed service provider
independent contractor · consultant · business owner · entrepreneur · gig worker
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