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Kala is accepted as one among the nine karana dravyas in Philosophy and Ayurveda. Ayurveda considers that living beings are product of kala, diseases occurring to the persons are also considered to be caused by time. The whole universe is under the control of time. Hence time is the cause everywhere.As far as Ayurveda is concerned, this science aims at the prevention of health of healthy individual and cure of the disease of a diseased person.Health is defined as the samyak yoga of kala, artha and Karma and its heena, atiyoga and mithyayoga leads to disease. Shift working is defined as an arrangement of working hours that uses two or more teams(shifts) of workers, in order to extend the hours of operation of the work environment beyond that of the conventional office hours. Due to their woking schedule shift workers cannot maintain a regular life style. Acharya Charaka said that trivida hetusangraha for vyadhi include improper yoga of kala, budhi and indriyarthas. This paper tries to explore the bad effects of improper kala in shift workers.