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Topic 05

Shift Work

Shift work asks you to be alert when your body expects sleep, and to sleep when it expects daylight. Most general sleep advice quietly assumes a daytime schedule and stops being useful here. This hub covers sleep opportunity, naps, light, and transition days for schedules that do not follow the sun.

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This hub exists before its first guide does — the six topics are the structure of the site rather than a by-product of what happens to be written. Guides for it are drafted and will publish once they have been reviewed and a named reviewer can be credited on the page. Nothing is being withheld from you; there is simply nothing yet that has cleared that bar.

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