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1. Work shift duration: a review comparing eight hour and 12 hour shift systems.

   Lesley Smith, Simon Folkard, Philip Tucker, et al. · 1998 · Occupational and Environmental Medicine · 261 cites

   OBJECTIVES: Shiftwork is now a major feature of working life across a broad range of industries. The features of the shift systems operated can impact on the wellbeing, performance, and sleep of shiftworkers. This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on one major characteristic of shift rotas-namely, shift duration. Evidence comparing the relative effects of eight hour and 12 hour shifts on fatigue and job performance, safety, sleep, and physical and psychological health are considered. At the organisational level, factors such as the mode of system implementation, attitudes towards shift rotas, sickness absence and turnover, overtime, and moonlighting are discussed. METHODS: Manual

2. Smart Working: Work Flexibility Without Constraints

   Marta Angelici, Paola Profeta · 2023 · Management Science · 184 cites

   Does removing constraints on the time and place of work benefit the utility of workers and firms? We design a randomized experiment of a sample of workers in a large Italian company; workers are randomly divided into a treated group that engages in flexible place and time of work (which we call “smart working”) one day per week for nine months and a control group that continues to work traditionally. By comparing the treated and control groups, we find causal evidence that the flexibility of smart working increases the productivity of workers. We estimate a decrease of one day of leave on average per month, and we exclude a significant decline in objective productivity in any month. We also

3. Being present and thankful: A multi-study investigation of mindfulness, gratitude, and employee helping behavior.

   Katina Sawyer, Christian Thoroughgood, Elizabeth E. Stillwell, et al. · 2021 · Journal of Applied Psychology · 134 cites

   Gratitude plays an integral role in promoting helping behavior at work. Thus, cultivating employees' experiences of gratitude represents an important imperative in modern organizations that rely on teamwork and collaboration to achieve organizational goals. Yet, today's workplace presents a complex array of demands that make it difficult for employees to fully attend to and appreciate the various benefits they receive at work. As such, gratitude is difficult for employers to promote and for employees to experience. Despite these observations, the role of attention and awareness in facilitating employees' feelings of gratitude is largely overlooked in the extant literature. In this study, we

4. The wellbeing economy: Possibilities and limits in bringing sufficiency from the margins into the mainstream

   Anders Hayden, Clay Dasilva · 2022 · Frontiers in Sustainability · 41 cites

   The idea of sufficiency faces great obstacles in contemporary political economies in which production and consumption growth has long been considered imperative. Despite evidence supporting calls for a sufficiency-oriented, post-growth approach to environmental challenges, only pro-growth environmental perspectives have found significant mainstream political support until now. However, one recent formulation that has a strong affinity with a sufficiency approach—a wellbeing economy—has found growing support among mainstream political actors including governments and international organizations. Does the growing support for a wellbeing economy represent the long-sought breakthrough for a suff

5. A review of the physiological and psychological health and wellbeing of naval service personnel and the modalities used for monitoring

   Cliodhna Sargent, Cormac Gebruers, Jim O’Mahony · 2017 · Military Medical Research · 40 cites

   Naval cohorts rely heavily on personnel to ensure the efficient running of naval organisations. As such, the wellbeing of personnel is essential. In an occupational setting, naval service personnel experience a variety of physiological and psychological stressors. Most naval services arrange annual physical fitness and body composition tests to ensure the physical readiness of personnel. However, these tests only evaluate a small amount of physiological capabilities. Components such as aerobic and strength capabilities are assessed, however, other components of physical fitness such as speed, agility, anaerobic capacity and flexibility are not. In addition to the physical capabilities, perso

6. The impact of moving to a 12h shift pattern on employee wellbeing: A qualitative study in an acute mental health setting

   Jane Suter, Tina Kowalski, Misael Anaya-Montes, et al. · 2020 · International Journal of Nursing Studies · 26 cites

   BACKGROUND: Against a backdrop of increasing demand for mental health services, and difficulties in recruitment and retention of mental health staff, employers may consider implementation of 12 h shifts to reduce wage costs. Mixed evidence regarding the impact of 12 h shifts may arise because research is conducted in divergent contexts. Much existing research is cross sectional in design and evaluates impact during the honeymoon phase of implementation. Previous research has not examined the impact of 12 h shifts in mental health service settings. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate how employees in acute mental health settings adapt and respond to a new 12 h shift system from a wellbeing perspective. DE

7. The Effects of the Emeryville Fair Workweek Ordinance on the Daily Lives of Low-Wage Workers and Their Families

   Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman‐Pines, John A. Fitz-Henley · 2022 · RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences · 23 cites

   Emeryville, California's Fair Workweek Ordinance (FWO) aimed to reduce service workers' schedule unpredictability by requiring large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last-minute schedule changes. From ninety-six workers with young children (N = 78 in longitudinal analyses; 58 percent working in regulated businesses at baseline), this study gathered daily reports of work schedule unpredictability and worker and family well-being over three waves before and after FWO implementation. The FWO decreased working parents' schedule unpredictability and improved their well-being relative to those in similar jobs at unregulated est

8. Employee Acceptance of a Four-Day Workweek.

   M. D. Fottler · 1977 · Academy of Management Journal · 17 cites