Some Night-Shift Workers May Have a 300% Higher Risk of Car Crashes

Many nearby places closed in part because workers had no way to arrive without a bus.

You don't seem to realize that jobs are not always in dense areas.

Often not an option, as grave/swing shift often has the end that isn’t in common with day shift facing reduced frequency or no service on public transit lines.

The better way to deal with shift work is to be ultra mindful of diet and exercise since night work messes with metabolism and hormones in general. Or stop doing night shift but thats a long term solution and usually you're doing that shift work for actual economic reasons.

public transport was available for those times, but occasionally I’d drive as it tended to be faster - especially on the way in.

One morning I was driving back home and it was really sunny, no AC in the car, and the traffic ground to a halt on the m25. I closed my eyes and woke when the car behind beeped me for not moving forward.

Fortunatly it was stoped traffic rather than sluggish traffic.

It was the day shifts that needed a taxi - 1130-2330 for example was too late to get the last train. Work provided a taxi at those times (and on Christmas Day / Boxing Day)

That's a stretch. It's not wage theft because you don't have to work before your shift starts. You could very well sit outside and browse HN before work starts.

Lots of places have legally mandated requirements of the number of people to be working at any given time so there's no leeway for someone being late, it's a 1:1 if you're late someone else has to stay longer.

I used to do panama shifts, swapping between days/nights every 2 weeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_plan#Panama_Schedule

Perhaps they were matching that?

- Nasal breathing via a light-weight mask thing around your nostrils

- Heart rate and blood oxygenation via a pulse oximeter on a finger

- Physical orientation of the body (an acceleration sensor)

- Something around the chest that records contractions/expansions

>According to researchers at the University of Missouri, people who develop this condition are also three times more likely to be involved in a vehicle accident.

They don't mention lack of light, but instead associate the higher crash rate with sleep disorders brought on by consistently working graveyard shifts.

I actually full on hallucinated.

1/3: A giant SUV (20' tall) was reversing onto the highway. I slammed on the breaks only to realize it wasn't there.

2/3: A bit later, a hundred foot tall heavy woman in a moo moo standing akimbo over the road. I recall telling myself to not look up as I passed underneath.

3/3: someone reversing their boat and trailer onto the road, but the boat was 20' tall (my mind had _something_ going on with giants I guess). By that point, I just drove through the illusion, and, after, realized just how scary that was.

Finally got home, and I recall aiming for my pillow and being asleep before hitting the mattress.

So you can have some 80 hour work weeks and 8 hour weeks.

Using percentages without context is a red flag for me for something possibly being wrong with the article.