Workplaces shape risk for exposure to COVID-19 through on-site safety practices, including the provision and required use of personal protective equipment, as well as protective policies such as paid sick leave and the flexibility to work from home.
Work schedules in the service sector are often unstable and unpredictable. Data from The Shift Project (n=16,000) reveal strong associations between precarious work schedules and sleep quality.Unstable work schedules are more predictive of sleep quality than working the night shift or parenting a young child. Chronic uncertainty about the timing of work shifts impedes healthy sleep patterns.
