The working from home challenge BBC World Service Business Daily Podcast (March 24)

VOCABULARY and EXPRESSIONS

Please keep it down Babies and toddlers It’s a no-brainer I decided to catch up
Evidente with a friend
I worked for 12 We’re in this for the I’m afraid to go out, I’m trying to keep my
hours solid long haul let alone use the work-life balance in
A largo plazo underground sync

I’m going to get We’re playing things Fast forward a A massive spike in
down to it by ear month internet traffic
Ir al grano improvisar Adelantar un mes punta

Getting a puppy now We aren’t in full We just have to We paid top dollar
was bad timing lockdown plough forward
Ir hacia delante Precio alto

I’m going stir-crazy I ventured out to My familiar coffee I’m a teetotaller

loco meet people mug abstemio

Sarah Treanor says the report consists of ‘snapshots from around the world about homeworking’ - the
HIGHS like being able to veg out (holgazanear), and the LOWS like getting a puppy just as confinement
starts.

BJ. Stop everything

SARAH’S DAILY ROUTINE(1:10)

What does she say about her typical day at the moment?

-Walking downstairs to the kitchen’s table

-8,45 Listening news one hour

-Feel Overwhelming

-Work about 12h. one break. It is difficult to turn the work off

KAITLIN FUNARO IN CALIFORNIA (2:20)

How is she coping with the new situation?

Difficult, it is not happening

Bad timing for having a puppy

Stir-crazy
What do we learn about her profession?

If the situation goes for the long haul se does not know how is going to go with her clients
because they are not slowing down, really busy summer.

Campaign season, clients implied in the campaign, issues that will be at the forefront of the
president election

KATY WATSON IN BRAZIL (5:50)

How does she describe her household?

-Chaotic household

How do Brazilians feel about the new situation?

-Alien because Brazilians are use to the affection, close contact with family, social life…

What is being discussed on one of her Whatsapp chats?

-If they have to pay the cleaners, that are not working, the speakers is paying a half

What is the 40% figure mentioned?

-People working in informal economy

Apart from the virus itself, what else is ‘menacing’?

-The threat of hunger for millions of people, 40 dollars, is not enough for a month

How is inequality made evident by the crisis?

-the infected rich people is treated in private clinics, the poor do not have protection

What is she looking forward to at the moment?

INTERVIEW WITH LAURIE RUETTIMANN (HR expert and author) (9:15)

What’s her advice in the face of coronavirus?

-give people the grace and space to make mistakes, to get wrong and laughing about them and
plough forward

What do we need to re-think?

-How to be productive, how they work, how they spend their time, work at home does not
have to be identical to work in the office, we don’t have to be working all the time, we can veg
out, to disconnect and reconnect…

What – in her opinion- is ‘naturally terrible’? Why?

-Videoconferencing. Because we think replace the face-to-face interaction, but it is not the
case. Our brain move to different aspects when we are in a videoconference. It is different
than being in your office.
SARAH CATCHES UP WITH ZOE KLEINMAN (BBC technology correspondent) (13:40)

What aspects do they mention?

-She misses her colleges, feel alone, with cabin feverish

-difficult to switch off, videoconferencing

-spikes in internet traffic, we are not prepared for a massive use of internet, streaming services

KINJAL PANDYA IN NEW DELHI (15:45)

What has she realised in the last three days?

-to work from home because she has three children very demanding