Remote Work Vs. In-office! (Conversation Club)

This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is talking about remote work vs. in-office!

SInce the pandemic started, many people have experienced remote working in some form or another. Now that the pandemic has ended, things are changing again.

Many businesses are pushing a return-to-office policy and encouraging workers to stop working remotely. Many people now have a hybrid working model. How about you?

Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about remote work vs. in-office!

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Conversation Questions: Remote Work Vs. In-office!

1. Do you work remotely, in-office, or in a hybrid way?

2. Did the way you work change during the pandemic? Was it a good or bad change?

3. What are the advantages of in-office work?

4. What are the advantages of remote work?

5. Do you think hybrid working is ‘the best of both worlds’ or is it the worst of both?

6. Has the way you work changed after the pandemic?

7. Does your job give you flexibility with time? Can you work to your own schedule? Would you like to?

8. Do you think the future of work will be more flexible or more strict?

9. What is your ideal working scenario?

10. “Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.”

– Earl Wilson

What do you think of this quote?

Vocabulary List:

• Hybrid
  • something that is a mixture of two very different things
• Pandemic
  • (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants
• Advantage
  • a condition that helps you or gives you a greater chance of success
• The best of both worlds
  • a situation in which you can enjoy the advantages of two very different things at the same time
• Flexibility
  • the ability to change or be changed easily according to the situation
• Schedule
  • a list of planned activities or things to be done showing the times or dates when they are intended to happen or be done
• Strict
  • strongly limiting someone’s freedom to behave as they wish, or likely to severely punish someone if they do not obey
• Ideal
  • perfect, or the best possible
• Scenario
  • one of several possible situations that could exist in the future

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