Proposal for A Research Data Server on Working Hours

Introduction: Research on shift work and working time arrangements is often hindered by inconsistencies in how working hours and core features are reported and by the substantial amount of time that is necessary to understand such time arrangements and to compute additional variables. To address these issues, we propose the development of a server-based platform for collecting, standardizing, descriptions of working hours in research and automatically calculating many features of these working hours. This platform will serve as a centralized repository where researchers can describe, categorize, and compare studies on shift work and working time arrangements systematically.