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My organization: |
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Has employees who work at all hours to develop competitive new products. |
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Has equipment that runs all the time and/or customers who expect to reach us at any time. |
| 2) | Our employees work nights and weekends to fulfill: |
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Customers' expectations. |
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Their own expectations. |
| 3) | Our employees: |
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Are sometimes exhausted from working back-to-back shifts without a day (or night) off. |
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Are sometimes exhausted from staying up all night racing to meet deadlines. |
| 4) | If I walked through our workplace in the middle of the night I'd find: |
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Some people sleeping or playing games -- getting their juices flowing again so they can return to their workathon. |
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People working scheduled hours. |
| 5) | Our recruiters have to find people who are: |
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Willing to work very long hours. |
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Willing to do shift work. |
| 6) | Under our compensation plan: |
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We give our night workers 40 hours pay for 36 hours work (or we have at least considered this or some other pay differential). |
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Many of our employees work at least 70 hours for 40 hours pay. |
| 7) | We get requests from our employees for: |
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Changes in shift. |
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Onsite beds, showers, and snack food. |
| 8) | People sometimes grumble because: |
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They get left out of meetings because they work at night. |
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They spend so much time in meetings during the day they have to stay late at night to get their "work" done. |
| 9) | One problem is that: |
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Working all night is a status symbol. |
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Night and weekend workers have less status than day workers. |
| 10) | An HR person who works during the night is probably: |
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Catching up on a backlog or scrambling to meet a deadline. |
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Assigned to the night shift. |
Hospitals have to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Manufacturing operations do it to get the most use out of their equipment. And now, in our high-speed, gotta-be-first world, even offices are nightly hosts to red-eyed employees burning the candle at both ends. All these night owls create a flood of new issues for HR professionals. Does your organization really have to be 24/7? This quiz might lead you to a surprising answer. For each set of options below, choose the one truest for your organization.
(This quiz differentiates between 24/7 organizations and organizations populated with 24/7 people.)