About Odd Hours
An independent publisher covering one subject: how working time is distributed across the hours of a week, and how research attempts to measure it.
Scope
Odd Hours covers non-standard working hours — evening and overnight shifts, weekend work, rotating rosters, short-notice scheduling and on-call arrangements — and the statistical instruments that record them. It does not cover pay levels, income measurement, career guidance, or the health literature on shift work. Those subjects have their own specialist sources.
How subjects are chosen
Articles begin from a published study, a survey methodology document, or a documented disagreement between two sources. A subject is taken up when the underlying material is publicly available and detailed enough to be described accurately, and when the methodological limits are documented by the researchers themselves or in peer commentary.
Subjects are not chosen by search volume or by what is currently circulating in the general press.
How sources are cited
Researchers and institutions are named in the body of each article. Where a finding is contested, or where a method has known limits, the objection is stated in the same passage rather than deferred to a closing note. Where an exact figure would be reproduced without its instrument and reference period, Odd Hours describes the direction of a finding instead and points to the original publication.
What Odd Hours does not do
- It does not publish testimonials, reviews, success stories or before-and-after accounts.
- It does not offer consultations, assessments or personalised guidance.
- It does not describe any material as a method, system, formula, protocol or sequence of steps that produces a result.
- It does not publish statistics without a real, identifiable source.
How Odd Hours advertises
Advertising for this site is written in the third person and describes the subject matter of the publication. Advertisements do not state or imply anything about the circumstances, schedule, occupation, household or condition of the person seeing them, and they are not targeted on the basis of any inference about those things.
Every advertisement leads to a page whose content matches what the advertisement describes. There are no intermediate pages presenting different material to different visitors, and the page reached from an advertisement is the same page reachable from the library.
Corrections
Errors are corrected on the page where they appeared, with a dated note recording what changed. Substantive corrections are also listed on the corrections page. Correction requests go to support@oddhours.site.
Commercial disclosure
Odd Hours may sell digital reading material and may earn revenue from advertising. Commercial arrangements do not determine which subjects are covered or what an article concludes. Where an article relates to material offered for sale, that relationship is stated in the article itself.