UP ALL NIGHT

摘要

When most of the world slumbers, a percentage of the populace is awake, at work but not necessarily alert. They are your third shift and overnight shift workforce, and they may be tired. "The human body is a miraculous machine, but it was never designed to be at its most alert in the middle of the night," says William Davis. With that statement, the vice president of operations at Stoneham, Mass.-based Circadian neatly outlines the challenge many manufacturers face in running third or overnight shifts-addressing stresses such non-traditional shift schedules place on workforces required to be productive while the majority of the world sleeps.