Life in the Modern Office

B2 – Upper Intermediate

Work offices are critical to productivity, collaboration, and innovation. We probably spend more than one-third of our lives at the work office. However, the pandemic has introduced dramatic changes in our work culture.

Let’s listen to the audio and read transcript below about life in the modern office.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2022/ep-220505

Discussion Questions:

  1. What are your thoughts on hot-desking?
  2. How would you describe your workplace? How about your own work desk/space?
  3. What is your favorite and least favorite thing about your workplace?
  4. How has the Coronavirus pandemic changed your workplace?
  5. What do you think is the worst thing about working in an office?
  6.  Share your thoughts on this statement, “It’s important to have a workplace that’s safe, comfortable, and familiar”.

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2 replies on “Life in the Modern Office”

1- I think hot-desking may be a good opportunity to know people who is not near to your “permanent” desk.
2-My workplace is now an open-space office but it used to have dividing walls. Also, we use hot-desking system but we can book the desk we want to use before by web. The office is new and big, we have a kitchen to eat there and even a terrace now.
3- What I like most about my office is that desks are big and also that we have like a coffee space where we can have a break when we need it. What I do not like so much about my office is that air conditioner is always so high that I have to wear a jacket even in Summer.
4- After covid we started using hot-desking.
5- For me it would be having to getting up earlier in the mornings and to expend so much hours in the same place. Also it makes more difficult to make things on evenings.
6- In my opinion that statement is completely true as we spend many hours in the office.

Welcome to the Phoneenglish Blog! Glad to see you are trying to practice your writing.

See how you can revise this sentence to make it a bit better:

For me it would be having to getting up earlier in the mornings and to expend so much hours in the same place.

For me, it would be having to get up earlier in the mornings and to spend too many hours in the same place.

Good job writing your answers. Hope to read more from you in the future!

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