Workplace Wellbeing: Take care when working from dusk to dawn

Night workers are essential to ensure services are run on a 24-hour basis, but it can come at a cost to their health and wellbeing 

Working nights increases our risk of obesity and is associated with higher rates of both cancer and depression

Nicholas Delia lives in a different time zone to the rest of us. This isn’t because the 33-year-old from Malta has moved to a faraway country. It’s because he works nights at the Cork International Hotel.

“As the night manager, I work from 11pm to 7.15am five nights a week,” he says. “I’m awake when everyone else is fast asleep and asleep when they’re wide awake.”