What Is The Future Of Work?

What is an idiom meaning to doubt that what you've been told is accurate or likely to come true?

• d) Take it with a pinch of spice

• c) Take it with a pinch of salt

• b) Take it with a pinch of pepper

• a) Take it with a pinch of sugar

What does a track record mean in the context of the text?

• a) A record of music tracks

• b) A record of achievements or failures of someone's past performance

• c) A record of train tracks

• d) A record of race tracks

What does 'come to pass' mean in an old-fashioned way?

• c) Come to a decision

• b) Come to a stop

• a) Take place or happen

• d) Come to a conclusion

What is a dystopian according to the text?

• a) Someone who imagines a bright future

• d) Someone who imagines a futuristic world

• b) Someone who imagines a nightmarish future of suffering and injustice

• c) Someone who imagines a peaceful future

What does it mean to 'get rid of something'?

• c) To buy something

• b) To remove something that you no longer want

• a) To keep something

• d) To sell something

What does it mean if something 'crops up'?

• d) It changes color

• c) It appears or happens unexpectedly

• b) It grows in size

• a) It disappears

What does Andrew Palmer worry about in relation to AI?

• b) AI will not affect any jobs

• a) AI will replace all jobs

• d) AI will not be developed further

• c) AI will replace some jobs and cause disruption

What percentage of companies planned to continue a four-day week at the end of the trials in 2023?

• a) 52%

• d) 82%

• c) 92%

• b) 72%

What does it mean to 'take something with a pinch of salt'?

• a) To believe everything you hear

• b) To doubt that what you've been told is accurate or likely to come true

• c) To ignore everything you hear

• d) To trust everything you hear

What does Professor Burchell think about predictions for the future of work?

• a) They are always accurate

• b) They are always inaccurate

• d) They are easy to make

• c) They have a good track record