The idea is that staff become much more flexible with their time, their working pattern and their ideas.

BBC: South East Wales

But the Communication Workers Union has said it was unreasonable to change staff's traditional working pattern on Christmas Eve.

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Consultants have told the BBC there are also concerns over staffing the emergency department, covering holiday and sick leave, and the fact that the rest of the hospital system does not follow a seven-day working pattern shift, which has a knock on effect especially at the weekends.

BBC: Northern Ireland

His research shows little change in the pattern of night working, but an increase in evenings and a greater rise at weekends.

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All three companies are working hard to break that suicidal pattern by slashing factory capacity, buying out tens of thousands of workers and readjusting their pricing strategies.

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One very interesting factor is the pattern where more people are working part-time and more people who are self-employed.

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In one of its most sensitive police "pattern or practice" investigations to date, the Justice Department is now working to get Los Angeles city officials to sign a consent decree authorizing a third party to monitor the city's Police Department and imposing other safeguards.

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We use a tier system on how to enter and exit based on risk, so we have a big position when the pattern triggers and take profits along the way, holding some as it keeps working.

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