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Sleepy shift workers struggle with daily tasks

Shift work has been widely linked to impaired sleep and poor safety outcomes, but it also diminishes a worker's ability to perform daily activities like running errands or paying bills, and can lead to reckless behaviour, US researchers have found.

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