How erratic work schedules impact your health

Shift work, night work, changing routines — all of them come at a huge cost to your health and fertility, writes Dan Buckley.

BEING paid extra for working the ‘graveyard’ shift may help pay the bills — but it comes at huge cost to your health, an increasing body of research shows.

Erratic work schedules that disturb a person’s body clock — known as the circadian rhythm — can increase the risk of contracting deadly diseases like cancer and diabetes.