Love and owls: what good is the night shift
Why many night shifts are bad, many know: it’s bad for your health, you’ll spoil the entire regime, and you need to sleep at night. “Remind me why you work the night shift?” Friends sometimes ask. Here's what we on the Wrike support team usually answer:
“I stopped hating the alarm because I usually wake up before I get up,” says my colleague Sasha, and we all sign her night shift. But Natasha, for example, switched to the night shift and exhaled. For a long time, she had a song on her alarm clock that she "hated so much that she wanted to throw the phone out of the window in the morning." And now if you want - you forget about the alarm clock altogether, if you want - you organize long breakfasts with pomegranate juice and pancakes with strawberries, you don’t want to, but you have to - you run about.
Going to the visa center, tax, post office and the traffic police is no longer a problem. Whatever public service is chosen, it’s shorter in the afternoon, Tatyana Petrovna issues parcels faster, the instructor on the site seems kinder than in the evening. You can agree on a manicure, a trip to the pool or Spanish courses for one or two, when you can calmly answer: "Yes, at three in the afternoon it will do."
Whether you are taking a taxi to the pool or taking the bus to the Spanish school, you will definitely not get stuck in traffic jams. The support team at Wrike works in multiple shifts to provide 24/7 support to our customers around the world. The night shift begins at ten in the evening, so a trip to the office or on business never turns into an endless attempt to overtake or go around that red car or manage to take your favorite parking place, which is near the entrance and in the shade.
Outside the window of a blizzard and in general the stars are so formed that I do not want to leave the house - do not go out. Night shifts are special, and many companies are allowed to work from home. As my colleague Andrei says: “The best commute to work is from the bedroom to the kitchen” (commute is usually a daily trip to and from work).
Andrei lived in Canada, so he can interfere with English and Russian words, and besides, we do this all the time. An obvious advantage of working on the night shift for Andrey (and all of us) is that at night almost all calls come from customers from America, Australia and Canada, and you can practice English. If English is not to your liking, then you can work with Japanese clients, such as, for example, Julia from my team.
If you still get to work, you find yourself in a completely different version of the office. The night office is a free meeting room, silence and dim light. We are generally romantics: we call each other owls (because you don’t need owls to work at night), we select the days of the week to work together from the office and photograph sunsets or sunrises from the window, and sometimes both. At night it is generally easier to focus on any task: the angle for a photo or a working question - the likelihood that someone will distract is small. They say that a night office is for introverts, but actually a night office is for night ones.
Surcharge for night work is a requirement of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and the most popular answer to the question about the advantages of such a schedule. In fact, everything is simple: you either love the night or not. “I am a night person,” says my colleague Julia (the one who works with the Japanese). "The periods of my mental activity come at night, and I don’t think that you need to artificially make you live according to a generally accepted schedule if night suits you."
If the periods of your mental activity fall on the day, then no money will make you stay to work at night. “Although, of course, it’s easy to explain why working normally at night when you have Liberia’s external debt in your pocket,” says my friend Vadim from the night shift. Joke. We have much more in our pocket.
Of course, the night shift is not for everyone, and you do not need to torment yourself if work in the dark is not to your liking. We believe: only a certain category of people works on night shifts. Or, as Stas says: “All nights have their own issues” (issue - a question, a problem, a feature). Yes, this schedule is not suitable for everyone, but those who are suitable should not be spared - we have it for love.
Morning, sleep and alarms
“I stopped hating the alarm because I usually wake up before I get up,” says my colleague Sasha, and we all sign her night shift. But Natasha, for example, switched to the night shift and exhaled. For a long time, she had a song on her alarm clock that she "hated so much that she wanted to throw the phone out of the window in the morning." And now if you want - you forget about the alarm clock altogether, if you want - you organize long breakfasts with pomegranate juice and pancakes with strawberries, you don’t want to, but you have to - you run about.
Day, business and hobbies
Going to the visa center, tax, post office and the traffic police is no longer a problem. Whatever public service is chosen, it’s shorter in the afternoon, Tatyana Petrovna issues parcels faster, the instructor on the site seems kinder than in the evening. You can agree on a manicure, a trip to the pool or Spanish courses for one or two, when you can calmly answer: "Yes, at three in the afternoon it will do."
Evening and transport
Whether you are taking a taxi to the pool or taking the bus to the Spanish school, you will definitely not get stuck in traffic jams. The support team at Wrike works in multiple shifts to provide 24/7 support to our customers around the world. The night shift begins at ten in the evening, so a trip to the office or on business never turns into an endless attempt to overtake or go around that red car or manage to take your favorite parking place, which is near the entrance and in the shade.
Outside the window of a blizzard and in general the stars are so formed that I do not want to leave the house - do not go out. Night shifts are special, and many companies are allowed to work from home. As my colleague Andrei says: “The best commute to work is from the bedroom to the kitchen” (commute is usually a daily trip to and from work).
Andrei lived in Canada, so he can interfere with English and Russian words, and besides, we do this all the time. An obvious advantage of working on the night shift for Andrey (and all of us) is that at night almost all calls come from customers from America, Australia and Canada, and you can practice English. If English is not to your liking, then you can work with Japanese clients, such as, for example, Julia from my team.
Night and comfort
If you still get to work, you find yourself in a completely different version of the office. The night office is a free meeting room, silence and dim light. We are generally romantics: we call each other owls (because you don’t need owls to work at night), we select the days of the week to work together from the office and photograph sunsets or sunrises from the window, and sometimes both. At night it is generally easier to focus on any task: the angle for a photo or a working question - the likelihood that someone will distract is small. They say that a night office is for introverts, but actually a night office is for night ones.
Night and the main thing (no)
Surcharge for night work is a requirement of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and the most popular answer to the question about the advantages of such a schedule. In fact, everything is simple: you either love the night or not. “I am a night person,” says my colleague Julia (the one who works with the Japanese). "The periods of my mental activity come at night, and I don’t think that you need to artificially make you live according to a generally accepted schedule if night suits you."
If the periods of your mental activity fall on the day, then no money will make you stay to work at night. “Although, of course, it’s easy to explain why working normally at night when you have Liberia’s external debt in your pocket,” says my friend Vadim from the night shift. Joke. We have much more in our pocket.
Of course, the night shift is not for everyone, and you do not need to torment yourself if work in the dark is not to your liking. We believe: only a certain category of people works on night shifts. Or, as Stas says: “All nights have their own issues” (issue - a question, a problem, a feature). Yes, this schedule is not suitable for everyone, but those who are suitable should not be spared - we have it for love.
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