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For a long time, an employer could turn down a flexible working request fairly easily, and "it just won't work for us" was often enough. That is changing. The law is moving towards making employers properly justify a refusal, and a vague or weak reason will no longer do. For a lot of businesses, the real reason behind a reluctant "no" has quietly been technical: the systems do not support people working from home or on different patterns. Once employers have to defend their r