"The paper you read and where you live determine how many hours you work"

From: Management Services | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

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The location of their office and the newspapers they read, determines how many hours staff are prepared to work, reveals the "How Britain Works Survey 2002" which was sponsored by Regus, the UK's leading operator of business centres.

The survey of more than 1,000 office workers in England, Scotland and Wales set out to find out how the hours that people work are affected by factors such as where they live, their gender, and their age. The survey reveals that office workers in East Anglia not only travel further to get to the office than their colleagues across the rest of the UK, ...

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