The places I remember from my father's time ran 3 shifts, and some of the larger ones had a swing that ran 3 shifts as well, but was offset 4 hours so you'd always have coverage.
I think it boiled down to employers realizing they could cut back on shifts and have less people by overworking the people they had.
Ok so I get it now. Technically the have 2 hellish shifts. That means less employees to deal with. Great business move. Now if they could only whip the employees awake like in the good old days ;)
Yeah, you get two shift worth of people, covering 3 (or more) shift worth of time.
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