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We need to be as flexible as we can to take account of particular circumstances.Having done shift work in a factory, I know that guys who have done a 12-hour night shift in a welding shop might want to pick up a couple of cans of beer on the way home.
An analogous situation might be local authority planning committees, the members of which must take into account all the information that has been received but are not required to be present throughout the entire meeting in order to vote.
It is only in the past 10 years that we have taken on an accountant. Most of our effort has been at the coalface—probably about 80 per cent of our staff work there.