DS9 s3e7 “Civil Defense” and TNG s6e10 “Chain of Command part I”
THERE ARE FOUR SHIFTS
Lol I had the exact same thought but Picard would know that there are only 3 shifts.
Two shift is where its at. Four day weekends twice a month!
Two shifts means you are working half the time.
3 on 4 off, then 4 on 3 off. If you just want to work and sleep, then not work, its the way to be.
You mean 3 days sleeping 8 hours and working 16, and then 4 days off?
Because that isn’t adding up to half the time working.
No, 2 shifts means there just a day and night shift, each 12 hours. Half the people from each shift are rotated off each day and night for normal operation. You end up working about 42 hours a week, but its all clustered so you get a clear divide between half of the week when you just work and sleep, and the other half where you are off.
Its popular with the military because you can easily surge staffing or fill in missing people without messing with sleep schedules. Ideally, you can double manpower at a moments notice just by canceling days off, where as with a more traditional 3 shift rotation youll have to pull from other shifts since they only have 2/7th of their manning on break at any moment.
