What is the future of work?

After Covid, many British companies gave the idea a go, but out of the sixty companies taking part in a four-day working week trial in 2023, how many said they planned to continue with a shorter work week?

• Twenty percent

• Nintey-two percent

• Forty percent

• Fifty-six percent

Fill in the blank:

To take something with a "pinch of salt" is an idiom meaning to ______ that what you've been told is accurate or likely to come true.

• celebrate

• believe

• ignore

• doubt

What does the term 'track record' mean?

• A type of music genre.

• All the achievements or failures that someone has had in the past.

• A record of songs played on the radio.

• A method of tracking animals in the wild.

What does the old-fashioned phrase 'come to pass' mean?

• Happened or come true.

• To go somewhere quickly.

• To forget something.

• To make a promise.

Fill in the blank: If you ________, you remove something that you no longer want.

• get rid of something

• hold onto something

• buy something new

• hide something

Fill in the blank: If something ________, it appears or happens unexpectedly.

• crops up

• falls down

• runs out

• breaks in

Fill in the blank:

To ______ means to not completely believe something you are told because you think it’s unlikely to be true.

• hit the nail on the head

• jump on the bandwagon

• take (something) with a pinch of salt

• let the cat out of the bag

Fill in the blank:

The achievements or failures of someone’s past performance is called their ______.

• background music

• track record

• side project

• main course

Fill in the blank:

A person who imagines or foresees a future where there is great suffering and injustice in society is called a ______.

• optimist

• utopian

• dystopian

• realist

Fill in the blank:

To remove something that you do not want any longer is to ______.

• look after

• hold on to

• get rid of

• bring back