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Tags: employment
Categories: Economics & Finance
An employment practice designed to make use of, or provide service across, all 24 hours of the clock each day of the week (abbreviated as 24/7). The practice typically sees the day divided into «shifts», set periods of time during which different groups of workers take up their posts.
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_work)
