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3

Manuals which are easy for

people to understand are

called u___-friendly.

5

We used to have an office in

central London but last year

we r___ to Inverness in

Scotland. The rent is much

cheaper and the air quality is

a hundred times better.

7

It is a good idea to keep

things tidy as d___ can lead

to chaos!

9

You should do some e___ at

least twice a week. A healthy

body = a healthy mind!

10 Some job advertisements ask:

Are you good at working

under p___ ?

11 When you have an important

d___ to meet, your stress

levels go up.

12 We decided to close the

office in Bristol because it

didn’t make e___ sense to

pay all that rent for a staff of

two people.

14 Living in a t___ or city is

much more stressful than

living in the country.

17 Robots can now do some of the boring, r___ jobs that

people did 50 years ago.

18 Doctors say that stress is l___ to many different illnesses.

20 If m___ is low in your company, productivity will be low.

21 Many people think that the number t___ is unlucky.

22 The company were worried that introducing shift work

would be unpopular, but so far nobody has c___ .

Down

1

A low-fat diet and a low-stress lifestyle are two good

ways of reducing your chances of getting h____

eart d_____

isease.

2

CEO stands for C___ E___ Officer.

4

Some people think that sacking a person for being

persistently late is too s___ a punishment.

5

If you don’t r___ your workers’ stress levels, their

productivity will soon go down.

6

Do you think directors should make important d___ by

themselves, or should they spend hours discussing them

with the members of the board?

8

Many managers work so hard during the week that they

find it difficult to r___ at weekends.

9

She had high e___ when she joined the company but

after a few months, she felt unchallenged and started to

look for a new job.

13 C___ people such as writers, sometimes suffer from

writer’s block when they are unable to write anything.

14 If your company has a high t___ of staff, it is a sign that

your working conditions are not satisfactory.

15 My brother has his own business. He works fourteen

hours a day, seven days a week. He’s a w___ !

16 After twelve years of hard work, my sister finally got p___

to senior sales manager.

19 People who go to university and get a d___ often get paid

a lot more money than people who go to work straight

from school.

10a Time to relax

Jeremy Taylor & Jon Wright

If you have a stressful job, you need to relax. A great way to relax is to do a crossword!
Look at the clues below and complete the crossword. The first one has been done as an example.

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