Research has suggested day shifts are the optimum working pattern for getting enough sleep.Specialists from the at the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University Spokane discovered people who do have to take on night shifts should try to after midnight.They discovered people who got the most sleep began work at either 9am or 2pm as this is when job fatigue is at its lowest.Lead author Angela Bowen said: "Our most interesting finding was that shifts beginning between 8pm and midnight yielded consistently poorer predicted performance and less-than-adequate predicted total sleep per 24 hours."Other discoveries included the suggestion shifts starting before midnight don't allow people to get enough shut eye before work and disrupts the rhythms.The author of Tired But Wired, Dr Nerina Ramlakhan, recently told the Independent people should think about the standard of sleep they are getting rather than the amount of it.
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