I’ve been on what I guess would be considered 5-8s for the past decade as a service tech. Most of the time there was longer than 8 hr days and plenty of weekends worked being on call or being called out at night.

I’m now working in a large data center on 5-8s until operations start. At that point with it being a critically cooled environment it’s 24/7 operation/monitoring. We’ll be working a 4on 4off shift rotating from nights to days every other month For the first several months or so until we get who’s going to be our night shift guys in the rotation. Then it’ll be just days of 4on 4off.

I’m interested in how it all goes. Definitely a change from what I’ve been use to.


I have a feeling once in the swing of things I’d vote for the more days off. Especially during hunting season.