How does being 'on-call' impact employee fatigue?
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 11:00
in Psychology & Sociology
With the growing demands of consumerism and the need to assist customers on the clock, today’s employees are working anything but nine to five. One in five EU employees are working on-call, but how does this arrangement stack up for laborers? Recently published research monitors a group of 169 male Dutch distal on-call technicians and investigates the connections between high levels of work fatigue, need for recovery and the status of being on-call and off-call. The study suggests that the mere possibility of being called heightens the need for recovery among shift workers.