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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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7
20
11
14
8
15
17
22
1
18
9
10
21
2
12
19
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3
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