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When it comes to balancing the responsibilities of both work and family life, many of us find ourselves in a gray area. Hard work and dedication to our jobs usually result in tangible rewards such as higher pay or a corner office. The same dedication to our personal lives perspective is known as the work-life balance. Many of us assume that a proper balance is always 50/50; unfortunately, the ratio between work and personal life can be closer to 70/30 or even 80/20. What many business experts suggest avoiding is an all-consuming 90/10 or higher.\n\nIt is true that there are only so many hours in a day, so for most people the majority of those hours are going to be dedicated to work, either out of financial necessity or pure enjoyment. Finding a balance is not necessarily about reducing the total number of hours spent at work, but rather finding better ways to incorporate personal time into the equation. A driven executive may feel perfectly comfortable working 80 or more hours a week, but he or she still needs to set aside time for family obligations, vacations and the occasional sanity break. The pendulum of the work-life balance can move in the opposite direction; however, some people find themselves working remotely, on a regular basis, or pursuing self-employment opportunities, without supervision, many at-home workers find themselves with a completely different problem: finding the discipline to dedicate at least 50 percent of their time to work obligations can be a challenge. While a 90/10 work-to-life ratio can be damaging to one’s mental and physical health, a similar work-to-life ratio can be damaging to one’s financial health.\n\nThe best way to determine if your work-life balance is acceptable may be to take a personal inventory of your life as it stands right now. There is no single ideal work-life balance plan which works for everyone, but if you sense that your work obligations have taken precedence over your personal life, you may want to find ways to improve your own work-life balance. Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\nWhich of the following is true according to the text?\n\nA) Focusing only on the individual and not on the whole organization plays an important role in achieving true work-life balance\nB) Giving the utmost prominence to personal over professional life may cause serious financial hazards\nC) When balance is accomplished, we are solely balancing our professional and family lives, thereby neglecting our emotional intelligence\nD) It can be suitable to rack up hours at work and take on an ever-increasing workload if one’s seeking a balanced life Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\nWhich is not true about work-life balance?\n\nA) It is related to building a more satisfying life, which can include both a rewarding career and time to take care of other things that matter to you\nB) A positive balance shows the satisfaction with one's entire life and can be reached even while working long hours\nC) It is about effectively managing the juggling act between work and other activities that are important to climb up the career ladder\nD) It is about how resources, time and energy are allocated, and whether the way they are spent matches one's goals Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\nWe can infer from the text that:\n\nA) An executive could be perfectly happy neglecting all his/her family, friends and leisure activities in the pursuit of corporate goals\n\nB) Working hours should not take up 90% or more of a person's time because this is harmful to their well-being\n\nC) People hardly ever have problems regulating their work-life balance in view of financial requirements\n\nD) Life balance is the sole way to reduce stress and restore harmony to one's professional life\n\nPróxima questão ➔ Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\nAccording to the text, work-life balance is:\n\nA) Hard to achieve due to strong family ties\n\nB) Essentially the amount of time and focus a person dedicates to their work versus other aspects of their life\n\nC) Obtained by equally dividing your time between professional and personal life issues\n\nD) Attained only by highly skilled workers who can be rewarded with a good salary\n\nPróxima questão ➔ Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\nAccording to the text, which can be the downside of working remotely?\n\nA) It might increase business costs, seeing that flexible working arrangements may jeopardize productivity\n\nB) Since there is no close monitoring, one may have to strive hard in order to maintain self-discipline to get the work done\n\nC) House chores and tasks that would otherwise take only a few minutes can end up taking up hours\n\nD) Obligations tend to feel heavier and overwhelming as there is no other person with whom to share the workload\n\nPróxima questão ➔ Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\n\n.......................... the company dealt with the crisis quickly, there was still a lack of shareholder confidence in future investments.\n\nA) However:\nB) Although\nC) Despite\nD) In spite of\n\nOne of the underlined words or phrases is incorrect; identify which is wrong:\n\nConcerning the oil leak that occurred in the Pacific Ocean last year, the environmental committee said yesterday that the investigations were going well and that they would soon be able to find against the real causes of the disaster.\n\nA) to find against\nB) were going well\nC) Concerning\nD) they would soon be One of the underlined words or phrases is incorrect; identify which is wrong:\n\nCredit card users in the United States will have to be more careful when using their credit card, as the new rules adopted by some companies make them to pay off their debts faster.\n\nA) make them to pay\nB) adopted by\nC) as the new\nD) will have to Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\n\nAngelina Jolie wants .......................... children to become American citizens.\n\nA) hers\nB) her\nC) her's\nD) she's Inglês - Trainee\n\nOne of the underlined words or phrases is incorrect; identify which is wrong;\n\nConsidering all the pros and cons of changing the organizational model, your new business could yield good results, but you would really have to run a tight boat to make it work.\n\nA) pros and cons\nB) run a tight boat\nC) Considering all\nD) could yield
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When it comes to balancing the responsibilities of both work and family life, many of us find ourselves in a gray area. Hard work and dedication to our jobs usually result in tangible rewards such as higher pay or a corner office. The same dedication to our personal lives perspective is known as the work-life balance. Many of us assume that a proper balance is always 50/50; unfortunately, the ratio between work and personal life can be closer to 70/30 or even 80/20. What many business experts suggest avoiding is an all-consuming 90/10 or higher.\n\nIt is true that there are only so many hours in a day, so for most people the majority of those hours are going to be dedicated to work, either out of financial necessity or pure enjoyment. Finding a balance is not necessarily about reducing the total number of hours spent at work, but rather finding better ways to incorporate personal time into the equation. A driven executive may feel perfectly comfortable working 80 or more hours a week, but he or she still needs to set aside time for family obligations, vacations and the occasional sanity break. The pendulum of the work-life balance can move in the opposite direction; however, some people find themselves working remotely, on a regular basis, or pursuing self-employment opportunities, without supervision, many at-home workers find themselves with a completely different problem: finding the discipline to dedicate at least 50 percent of their time to work obligations can be a challenge. While a 90/10 work-to-life ratio can be damaging to one’s mental and physical health, a similar work-to-life ratio can be damaging to one’s financial health.\n\nThe best way to determine if your work-life balance is acceptable may be to take a personal inventory of your life as it stands right now. There is no single ideal work-life balance plan which works for everyone, but if you sense that your work obligations have taken precedence over your personal life, you may want to find ways to improve your own work-life balance. Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\nWhich of the following is true according to the text?\n\nA) Focusing only on the individual and not on the whole organization plays an important role in achieving true work-life balance\nB) Giving the utmost prominence to personal over professional life may cause serious financial hazards\nC) When balance is accomplished, we are solely balancing our professional and family lives, thereby neglecting our emotional intelligence\nD) It can be suitable to rack up hours at work and take on an ever-increasing workload if one’s seeking a balanced life Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\nWhich is not true about work-life balance?\n\nA) It is related to building a more satisfying life, which can include both a rewarding career and time to take care of other things that matter to you\nB) A positive balance shows the satisfaction with one's entire life and can be reached even while working long hours\nC) It is about effectively managing the juggling act between work and other activities that are important to climb up the career ladder\nD) It is about how resources, time and energy are allocated, and whether the way they are spent matches one's goals Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\nWe can infer from the text that:\n\nA) An executive could be perfectly happy neglecting all his/her family, friends and leisure activities in the pursuit of corporate goals\n\nB) Working hours should not take up 90% or more of a person's time because this is harmful to their well-being\n\nC) People hardly ever have problems regulating their work-life balance in view of financial requirements\n\nD) Life balance is the sole way to reduce stress and restore harmony to one's professional life\n\nPróxima questão ➔ Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\nAccording to the text, work-life balance is:\n\nA) Hard to achieve due to strong family ties\n\nB) Essentially the amount of time and focus a person dedicates to their work versus other aspects of their life\n\nC) Obtained by equally dividing your time between professional and personal life issues\n\nD) Attained only by highly skilled workers who can be rewarded with a good salary\n\nPróxima questão ➔ Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\nAccording to the text, which can be the downside of working remotely?\n\nA) It might increase business costs, seeing that flexible working arrangements may jeopardize productivity\n\nB) Since there is no close monitoring, one may have to strive hard in order to maintain self-discipline to get the work done\n\nC) House chores and tasks that would otherwise take only a few minutes can end up taking up hours\n\nD) Obligations tend to feel heavier and overwhelming as there is no other person with whom to share the workload\n\nPróxima questão ➔ Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\n\n.......................... the company dealt with the crisis quickly, there was still a lack of shareholder confidence in future investments.\n\nA) However:\nB) Although\nC) Despite\nD) In spite of\n\nOne of the underlined words or phrases is incorrect; identify which is wrong:\n\nConcerning the oil leak that occurred in the Pacific Ocean last year, the environmental committee said yesterday that the investigations were going well and that they would soon be able to find against the real causes of the disaster.\n\nA) to find against\nB) were going well\nC) Concerning\nD) they would soon be One of the underlined words or phrases is incorrect; identify which is wrong:\n\nCredit card users in the United States will have to be more careful when using their credit card, as the new rules adopted by some companies make them to pay off their debts faster.\n\nA) make them to pay\nB) adopted by\nC) as the new\nD) will have to Choose the best answer, (a), (b), (c) or (d):\n\nAngelina Jolie wants .......................... children to become American citizens.\n\nA) hers\nB) her\nC) her's\nD) she's Inglês - Trainee\n\nOne of the underlined words or phrases is incorrect; identify which is wrong;\n\nConsidering all the pros and cons of changing the organizational model, your new business could yield good results, but you would really have to run a tight boat to make it work.\n\nA) pros and cons\nB) run a tight boat\nC) Considering all\nD) could yield