Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night when the hospital's monitoring equipment will probably shut down thanks to the Y2K computer crash, while you're at the mercy of a skeleton crew of probationary interns who are so low in the hospital pecking order that they're working the millennial New Year's Eve shift...
...advent of nonstop stock markets and ceaseless financial trading, round-the-clock shopping and the growing importance of the unsleeping Internet. The old notion of blue-collar night-shifters no longer applies: managers and professionals, who just 10 years ago made up only a tiny percentage of the shift work force, now account for more than...
Many workers consider the night shift a liberating experience. Home Depot's Parker can chauffeur his grandmother around the Los Angeles area and relax by his backyard pool during the day. Andrea Shalal-Esa, the night reporter for the Washington bureau of Reuters news agency, likes working from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. because it allows her to be a daytime mom to her two children. William Cockshoot, a Chicago commodities trader, finds he is better able to catch a price spread at night that would be snapped up faster by competitors during the day. The corporate investigators who work...
There is increasing evidence that people who work the night shift pay a physiological toll as they depart from the basic time clock dictated by their circadian rhythms. They also have more frequent job-related accidents and have to struggle harder to maintain their at-work focus. And when workers suffer, companies suffer. Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, CEO of Boston-based Circadian Technologies and author of The Twenty-Four-Hour Society, observes that the firms that have chosen to "push it to the max get hit later by the hidden problem of fatigue, burnout and stress." Sometimes the results...
...weeks ago, Joyner and Smiley decided to up the ante. Smiley vowed that unless CompUSA responded to their demands within 48 hours, "we will shift into third gear"--an implied threat to launch a boycott. That got CompUSA's attention. The company complained to the ABC Radio Network, which syndicates Joyner's show, about the false letter Joyner had read. It's not clear what happened next. Though CompUSA's president and CEO, James Halpin, says he never told ABC he was planning legal action against Joyner, ABC got weak in the knees. According to Joyner and Smiley, the network...