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by tj on July 15, 2003
As a follow up on my article last week, Wired features a nice and funny story. It researches deeper on the result of working for a company servicing US clients.
The authors claims that night shifts:
The authors claims that night shifts:
- detoriate family relationships
- supports "extramarital affairs"
- assuming a foreign accent for long periods causes sore throats
- let employees suffer from constipation and acid stomach
- are evil in general
- are the reason for war in the world
- and are really, really not good :-)
Note: The last three points are not directly mentioned in the article!Well an attrition rate of 40% per year and absenteeism of 5-8% are not really surprising. Although nobody says it's healthy to work during the night, day time operations do fight with the same hassles in India.
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