What is the future of work? ⏲️ 6 Minute English

Should we be worried about our jobs disappearing? Or is the future positive? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary. 👇👇👇
❓❓❓ After Covid, many British companies gave the idea a go, but out of the sixty companies taking part in a four-day working week trial in 2023, how many said they planned to continue with a shorter work week?
a) 52%?
b) 72%? or,
c) 92%?
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Vocabulary:
✔️take (something) with a pinch of salt - not completely believe something you are told because you think it’s unlikely to be true
✔️track record - the achievements or failures of someone’s past performance
✔️come to pass - (old fashioned) take place, happen
✔️dystopian - person who imagines or foresees a dystopian future where there is great suffering and injustice in society
✔️get rid of - to remove something that you do not want any longer
crop up - appear or happen unexpectedly
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I’m currently a high school student, and my school often schedules three classes on Saturdays. Consequently, I don’t feel that I get enough rest during those weeks. That’s why I’m really jealous to hear that some workers only have to work four days per week.

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VOCABULARY FROM VIDEO “What is the future of work? ⏲ 6 Minute English” 1. Sequencing: the order in which things happen or should happen 2. Aligned: to arrange things so that they form a line or are in proper position [+ obj] 3. Nightmarish: very frightening and unpleasant; very difficult to deal with 4. Injustice: unfair treatment :a situation in which the rights of a person or a group of people are ignored [noncount] 5. Take (something) with a pinch of salt : not completely believe something you are told because you think it’s unlikely to be true 6. Track record : the achievements or failures of someone’s past performance 7. Come to pass : (old fashioned) take place, happen 8. Dystopian : person who imagines or foresees a dystopian future where there is great suffering and injustice in society 9. Get rid of : to remove something that you do not want any longer 10. Crop up : appear or happen unexpectedly 01.02.2024 VIETNAM ^^ ALL THE BEST FOR YOU

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dystopian People often predict the future. However, these predictions have bad track records of not coming to pass, so we should take them with a pinch of salt. Some of these predictions are about AI getting rid of our jobs. However, people think other jobs might crop up, like AI programmers. People who believe this is not a dystopian.

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Extended vocabulary to this video: There have been a lot of predictions about the future of work. The robots will take over most jobs. What will work be like in the future? That’s what we will be discussing in this program. The 4-day working week Reveal the answer later in the program After COVID many companies gave the idea a go. Take the things which are being predicted with a large pinch of salt. Predictions for the future have a bad track record. Some jobs are at risk. New jobs will crop up. A shortened week is something we can all agree on.

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The development of AI will bring positive and negative effects to people. What seems to be certain is that rich people will take advantage of AI to become more and more rich. Regarding normal people I don't know if there will be more benefits than downsides, the important thing is to keep up with the new trends and continuosly keep our knowledge updated

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If you work for only four days a week do you increase the number of hours you work a day in order to attend the 40 regular work hours ?

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Nowadays many new jobs crop up such as robotic-related jobs which have made companies get rid of some workers.

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What is the source of this information with statistics?

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I think more and more people will be free from a static working time. Any piece of work boring or repetitive will be supplanted due to technologies such as artificial intelligence. Robots or some automatic system will replace it.

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He proposed a plan that aimed to get rid of all the labours in the factory. But according to the track records of the past projects, we agree that this is all but an impossible ideal right now.

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future is unpredictable because there are so many things may crop up, which will gradually change the process of history

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