Research suggests people derive job satisfaction from being able to personalize their working environment.

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For Hester it is not so much about the short-term money but the long-term achievement and satisfaction he would derive should he rebuild RBS to a state where it would be able to disengage from the government.

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Most continue to have and raise children and, in greater numbers than ever before, to combine motherhood not just with jobs but careers vocations in which they make long-term investments and from which they derive not only income but personal satisfaction and identity.

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