Employee Tips Archives

Ensuring Safety: The Importance of Verifying Your Presence, Location, and Awake Status During Overnight Shifts

Working the overnight shift can be a challenging experience for many individuals, and there are several safety considerations that must be taken into account. It is important to verify your presence, location, and awake status throughout the shift to ensure that you are alert and able to perform your duties safely. We’ve written about the circadian rhythm here, and some tips on staying awake here.

8 Ideas to Stay Awake During Your Overnight Shift

8 Ideas To Stay Awake
Tips to stay awake during your awake overnight shift

1.) Chore and task lists
Having varied activities throughout the night can keep you active and awake.

Monitoring Your Staff: Big Brother or Safety System?

Awake overnight staff management, security check-ins at malls, and Electronic Visit Verification for home health aides are all examples of employee monitoring. The term “monitoring” has been a point of contention over the years—bouncing from bad to good to bad (and back again). The ambivalence surrounding this word deserves a little more exploration.

3 Reasons Personality is Important in Hiring Night-Shift Employees

Your night shift employees are necessary for providing around-the-clock care, especially in the healthcare industry. Although these hires may not see action every night, their position is vital for your business. Here’s a simple guide to the importance of personality in your night shift workers. These jobs require personality and adaptability to wherever the night takes you.

How to Remove Stress from Your Night Shift Employment Situation

The night shift isn’t typically desired, but sometimes you can’t avoid it. Whether it’s retail, restaurant/bar work, medical, or some other field, there’s always a demand for workers in these late hours. You can make lemons out of lemonade and learn how to make the best out of this situation for you and your employees. This is how to remove stress from your night shift employment.