Office Life
Working Overtime is Good for You!
Are you hard-working, anxious, introverted and conscientious? If so, you’re likely to be a victim of workplace bullying. Researchers at Hull University have come up with a personality test to recognize people at risk of being bullied. The study recommends that companies give potential victims assertiveness training and social support at work so that they can be spared feeling humiliated. A separate study at the University of Manchester has found that working overtime can be good for one’s health. Managers who voluntarily stay an extra hour to catch up on work or organize themselves feel greater job satisfaction and have better mental health than those leaving on time. But if managers put in more than one hour a day extra or are forced to stay late, they are more likely to suffer anxiety.
Speak Up Ano Xll I - 158 - July, 2000
A questão refere-se ao texto cujo vocabulário principal se segue:
• to work overtime = trabalhar horas extras
• hard-working = trabalhador
• to be likely to = ser provável que
• bullying = chacota
• assertiveness = positividade, eficiência
• support = apoio
• so that = de forma que
• to spare = poupar
• health = saúde
• managers = administradores
• to catch up on work = colocar o trabalho em dia
• job = trabalho
• on time = na hora
• to stay late = ficar até tarde
• to suffer = sofrer
• anxiety = ansiedade
