Shift work disrupts your natural body clock, requiring you to sleep and wake at times that conflict with your circadian rhythm. This irregular pattern can impair cognitive function and decision-making, affect emotional regulation, and impact cardiovascular and metabolic health in the long term.
Sleeping at unconventional hours is often underrepresented in traditional tracking, leading to a disconnect between what’s actually happening in the body and what shows up in your data.
Introducing Shift Work PowerPlug, now available on your Ring AIR. It recalibrates how your sleep is analyzed, delivering accurate insights, no matter when you rest. Whether you’re a doctor on night duty, a pilot crossing time zones, or a worker managing rotating shifts, this PowerPlug is designed to meet the demands of your lifestyle.
You can see in the two screenshots below how Shift Work Mode recalibrates an analysis of the same sleep by deprioritizing sleep timings.
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How the Shift Work PowerPlug works
Adaptive sleep tracking
The Ring AIR intelligently recognizes your unique sleep patterns without requiring manual input of your work schedule, automatically adjusting metrics to reflect the realities of shift work.
Flexible sleep timing
Sleep is evaluated relative to when it occurs, not based on fixed circadian assumptions. This means you’ll receive accurate assessments of your sleep quality regardless of when you sleep, with no penalties for unconventional sleep timings.
Enhanced nap detection
Our improved Nap Detection V2, trained on over 1 million anonymous naps, precisely tracks short rest periods and incorporates them into your Recovery Score and Sleep Debt calculations in real time.
By providing more accurate insights into your rest quality, the Shift Work PowerPlug empowers you to make smarter decisions about recovery, plan effective wind-down routines, and perform better both at work and home.
Conclusion
The Shift Work PowerPlug can help shift workers make smarter decisions about their sleep quality. By getting a fairer assessment of rest and recovery, it can help users plan their wind-down times, stay on top of sleep debt, and enjoy better performance both at work and at home.
