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Work/life balance

It is important to consider employees' life outside work and their other commitments. If regular overtime is expected of employees, they may consider employment elsewhere

Work life balance

Faheem Aftab (Director of A Cube Architects) says:

"We like to run a 9:00 – 5:30 business and try and stay to those timescales. From the experience I had working for other organisations where I'd quite often work until 8 or 9 in the evening, starting at 6:30 or 7:30, being a slave to my position really... in a managerial role I realised that it's not necessary. I'd rather have happy people with happy lives to work for me than people who just sit here and don't really experience anything."

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