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Employees say they feel liberated to enjoy quality leisure and family time.

Rather than making even more money, Laura decided to do something different."You can spend it but you can't get it back. Being able to give the gift of time is quite special.

"But in manufacturing and engineering, people probably don't think of us as being very forward-thinking. "My mates are all jealous and keep asking if they can get a job here because they'd like the hours and that extra day off." As a father of three and grandfather of one, Darren Fox, 47, from Long Eaton in Derbyshire, says he used to feel mentally tired at work."We would have to use up all our holiday on childcare," he says."I had always worked five days - sometimes six.

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