Top five cities with the worst work-life balance

According to SME/sole trader survey

Adam Saville
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Poll suggests business owners in recruitment and HR sector are struggling most to find work-life balance

As many as 40% of people in Aberystwyth have admitted to not taking a two-day rest period in a working week, a survey of 1,000 small business owners and sole traders across the UK by Takepayments Limited has revealed. Not far behind was Liverpool, where 38% struggle to balance work with their private life and almost a third admitted to working more than a 48-hour working week - beyond the citizen's advice health and wellbeing legal limit. In Coventry, where 30% struggle to find a work-life balance, 70% of business owners said they were putting their colleagues' health first and checki...

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