Tip #2: Extend H.R. coverage. Too many 24-hour companies expect workers on the night shift to come into work during traditional business hours to take care of payroll and benefit issues.

You could blame it on old Thomas Edison and the light bulb. But most of the growth in night shift work is rooted in the growing global economy. As more businesses and workforces operate and ...

Night workers are likely to sleep less and less well than those keeping daytime hours, as they try to get their shut-eye while the rest of the street cuts its grass and revs its engines in the ...