People are generally resistant to radical change, and that does prevent certain more radical considerations from really taking root. I was pondering the merits of the night shift some days back, especially in relation to the fact that it's awfully hot in the daytime and frankly not a very enjoyable work experience in general.
Background. It's mighty hot in the daytime, especially in the tropics. The daylight hours are like clockwork and the temperature never varies greatly. Given these conditions,the air conditioning system of office buildings will be working overtime to cool the place and that takes quite a bit more power than it would were the temperature several degrees lower. In fact, a goodly number of people actually do want the night shift, but it's rarely considered as a true possibility in most companies.
Given the facts, it should actually be feasible if the night shift were implemented at a national level. Amongst the concerns of such an implementation include difficulty in adapting to the new hours, and inability to socialize with friends. Kids, too. But if it this thing were to be the norm, I seriously doubt that would be as much of a concern. As a side effect, I forsee that street crime at night would go down some, as more people are out and about so there are fewer secluded places during the dark hours.
Of course, given how the day shift has been so ingrained in societies everywhere since time immemorial, I'm not sure I'd see a normative shift anytime soon. Well, one can wish...
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