Recent research suggests that the modern day-day-night-night shift pattern for shift workers may not be as disruptive or as potentially carcinogenic as older, more extreme shift patterns. Recent ...

Rowing the gears in a manual-transmission car used to be so simple. Back in the old four-speed days, your forward gears formed an “H” pattern. Then came the five-speed gearbox, which put fifth gear to ...

One Jalopnik reader was so upset with the death of the manual transmission he decided to preserve a 5-speed shift pattern on his back. Here's what he's got to say about his permanent move. – Eds. Dear ...

WORKPLACES should operate new shift patterns that would see staff in work four days followed by 10 days working from home, a new report recommends. The study by Imperial College London chemical ...

BMW car workers in Oxford have voted in favour of new shift patterns, to cope with a hoped-for uplift in orders. Permanent staff at the German-owned Mini plant in Cowley were given the option of four ...