We all want to feel happy with the balance between our work and home life. Finding an equilibrium is can help reduce stress too and stress can be very bad for our health. Watch the following video about finding work-life balance.
Here is some vocabulary that you will find in the video. Sometimes the subtitles are incorrect in the Youtube video but you can find the transcript below.
Are you in balance? Take this quiz to see.
Mr Marsh talks about the importance of work-life balance but he doesn't give a lot of advice for how to find work life balance. Here is an article (there are many articles online) about ways to achieve more work-life balance.
What countries have the most work-life balance? According to this study Spain and Denmark have the highest rate of work-life balance. What do you think? Do you agree
How do you try to find balance in your life? Do you have hobbies?
- to take stock: to asses
- wretched: miserable, pitiable
- weakling: someone who is the opposite of strong
- to neglect someone/something: to not take care of a person or a thing
- a thorny issue: a difficult issue
- to run out of something: to finish something
- to struggle with something: to have a difficult time with something
- flexi time: flexible working hours
- dress down Fridays: a day when workers can wear casual clothes
- incompatible: unable to exist in harmony
- a contention: a point of debate
- an abattoir: a slaughterhouse; a place where animals are killed
- to get away with something: to do something without being discovered
- to elongate something: to make longer
- to get a grip: to get control
- to sort something out: to get control
- an office rat: someone who works in office
- a stomach crunch: a type of exercise that works the abdominals
- to tuck someone in: to put someone, like a child, into bed
Are you in balance? Take this quiz to see.
Mr Marsh talks about the importance of work-life balance but he doesn't give a lot of advice for how to find work life balance. Here is an article (there are many articles online) about ways to achieve more work-life balance.
What countries have the most work-life balance? According to this study Spain and Denmark have the highest rate of work-life balance. What do you think? Do you agree
How do you try to find balance in your life? Do you have hobbies?