Extended-hours ops: Are workers getting proper rest?
Just how productive is it to work into the wee hours? For Australia’s Members of Parliament, 14-hour shifts ending at the break of dawn, followed by as little as four hour’s rest before starting again, have prompted some Members to bring blankets and pajamas to work and to fall asleep on their benches, according to News Interactive.
Members from both sides of the bench call it “madness,†to debate important legislative issues while bleary-eyed and grumpy. However, with a few more sitting weeks and a long backlog of issues, more late nights are likely.