Front-line staff at the state's juvenile detention facility in Kapolei are routinely required to work 16-hour and occasionally even 24-hour shifts because of staff shortages, something that some ...

My wife and I had our own caregiving "shifts" — I covered mornings and after-work, ... I'm a father of 3 working up to 16 hours a day. The guilt of missing my kids grow up is torturous.

06:20. This is my first of three long day shifts, work­ing from 7.45am to 8.15pm. As I leave home, my kids are still asleep, so I hug and kiss them goodbye.

Virginia Beach firefighter Max Gonano was coming off a 24-hour shift on Father’s Day when he was told he’d have ... up to 16 hours straight, he said ... care of his 5-year-old and 9-year-old kids.

Many ground workers were forced to work 16-18 hours shifts during the chaos, their union said. Some developed frostbite after working outside in the frigid temperatures, per the union's president.

"When I leave here doing a 16-hour shift, which takes an hour and twenty minutes to get home, that means I'm sleeping between two-and-a-half to three hours, and then I come right back," King said.