Travelling to and from work exposes you to many security threats as most crimes occur at night. Additionally, the light and heat, in summer, during the day make it hard for your brain to remain asleep for eight hours. There are distractions from things and people that need your attention. There is no guarantee that you will sleep well during the day. Your work hours can make your family feel neglected, especially if you have young kids who do not fully grasp the concept of work. Your schedule often contradicts your family’s schedule. You also deny your body a few minutes to relax. Eating at your desk limits your mobility and can lead to health complications. Unfortunately, you often get to spend your breaks at your desk as you cannot leave it unattended. The night shift also disrupts your body’s eating schedule. You have to compromise and eat what you get, which limits your options, especially if you are trying to stick to a healthy diet. It can also make you drowsy.Īccessing food at night is not easy. If you enjoy the hustle and bustle of a busy day, the silence will bore you. Adjusting your sleep pattern can cause stress, an irregular heartbeat, and cardiovascular complications for people with a weak heart.ĭue to a reduction of activity at night, you get to work in a quiet environment both within and outside the office. Altering this pattern leaves you feeling exhausted and moody. Your brain often conditions your body to rest at night. I stayed for such a long time in the night shift that it imprinted in me the idea that Call centers equate to Night shift and sleepless nights. Luckily, there was a friend who introduced me to a day shift call center in the same city as to where my comfort zone is. At first I was hesitant in leaving my beloved company since I have a lot of friends there and the idea of starting over petrified me.Īfter a few weeks of thinking it over, I decided to leave the graveyard shift. I applied at TPG Telecom and started from scratch. Fast forward 7 years later, here I am as the supervisor of recruitment. I can bore you with the details of my career here in TPG but the purpose of this article is for you to know the Disadvantages of working in the night shift.Īccording to Thomas Oscar, a contributor in below are the disadvantages of Working for a Night shift: I on the other hand needed to sleep while everybody is awake and I then work while others are sound asleep. Most of them worked in the day with their regular day jobs. Just like any working environment or situation, working in a specific "unnatural" schedule for a very long time will take its toll on may things not only physically, mentally but socially as well.īack when I was still affiliated with Convergys (I did not bother hiding it since its clearly visible in my profile), I did not much have connection with my friends and family. This however gave me an imbalanced social life as well as an erratic sleep pattern. The pay was good, there were no traffic to and from the office and working at night gave me unique opportunities that was not open for a normal dayshift schedule. I have been working night shifts for 5 long years for a BPO in Ortigas Center Pasig way back 2004.
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