Work and life schedules in human made enviroment without a sun to drive day night schedule?

Currently your work and life schedules fall mostly into 'day' and 'night', with a few areas breaking up work times into 3 part shifts, morning, evening night etc.

Imagine we live in an artificial enviroment, most likely a space station or world ship, which does not have a sun and light comes from electricity instead; and that this enviroment is far enough away from earth or other planet that it is not ruled by that planets schedules. In this world we don't need to set our schedule by the sun, any time we have as much light as any other time.

How would humans structure their work and daily life in such a structure? Would they still keep a day/night pattern, or would they shift over to something like a 3 shift system where you work shift A, B, or C without any shift being thought of as day or night?

If they kept a shift system how would that impact things like service industry, that usually is only open during the 'day' if there is no official day but insufficient customer volume to justify 24/7 operations? would there be issues with needing something or someone but not being on the right 'shift', basically would every 'shift' be mostly cut off from each other because of when they work and sleep?

posted almost 9 years ago

dsollen‭

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