As women wait longer to get married and as they work longer hours, e-commerce has been a godsend for brides planning weddings while working a full-time job (particularly if the wedding is out of town).

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In the over-worked courts, cases were hurriedly rescheduled and sheriffs told that they would have to work longer hours.

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It means doctors can no longer work the hours they used to - either pacing the wards or on call - and so it is just not possible in a day-and-age when money is tight to employ all the new medics needed to staff specialist services in each hospital.

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They believe that it's wrong to work longer hours.

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Technology has caused work to expand to longer hours of the day and has attached work to people wherever they are.

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Those who enjoy the type of work they do and believe that they are making a worthwhile contribution to society have fewer times when they feel overworked, and may be able to work longer hours without a negative emotional impact, than those who don't find satisfaction in their job.

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Even then, there were millions of people living in households with no work - and millions of others working longer hours they would like.

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They now work much shorter hours than the Koreans and, with much longer vacations, take far more foreign trips.

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He said British farmers had turned to migrant labour because skilled British workers found they could "work lower numbers of hours for more money" in other industries and students were no longer prepared to do seasonal agricultural work, which could be physically demanding.

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