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AUTHOR: Janet Egan
Shift working covers a plethora of working arrangements and our research illustrates that, despite the difficult economic background prevailing over the past year, this type of working remains a central part of the employment landscape.
On this page:Map: Shift patterns in organisations surveyed by IRS, by sector Widespread use of shift working Reasons for employees doing shift work Most popular shift patterns Main types of shift patterns Double-day or two-shift systems Continuous shifts Continental shifts Three-shift patterns Alternating day/night patterns Night shifts Twilight shifts Wide variety of shift patterns in use Part-time working Self-rostering Altering shift-working arrangements Changes driven by economic conditions Wider patterns of change Health issuesAdvice on deploying shift-working systems Our research Table 1: Shift patterns worked as main job, April to June 2007 Table 2: Example shift patterns in operation among IRS survey respondents, 2009 Table 3a: Example shift patterns in manufacturing and production organisations Table 3b: Example shift patterns in private sector services and public sector organisations Additional resources on XpertHR.
Shift patterns in organisations surveyed by IRS, by sector
The map below shows respondents to the IRS 2009 shift-working survey by sector and location within the UK.
Yellow placeholders indicate public sector organisations; blue placeholders indicate manufacturing and production companies; and green placeholders indicate private sector services organisations.
Click on the place holders to see the name of the responding organisation and the number of shift patterns they operate. Further detail is provided in table 3a and table 3b.
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