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.
Kristen Harknett, Daniel Schneider, and Rebecca Wolfe. “Losing Sleep over Work Scheduling?: The Relationship between Work Schedules and Sleep Quality for Service Sector Workers.,” SSM-Population Health (October 2020): 100681.