Read the texts below. For questions (21 – 30) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

What is the Future of Work?

These predictions for the future were made in (21) _______, but so far they haven’t come true. Making predictions for the future isn’t easy – just ask tech billionaire, Elon Musk, who recently predicted that artificial intelligence will eventually mean that no one (22) _______ work. In fact, there have been many predictions about the future of work, for example that robots will take over most jobs, and that everyone will work from home.

During Covid, one of these predictions came true. People (23) _______ to work from home. So what will work be like in the future?  (24) _______ idea for the future is (25) _______ working week where employees work four days for the same money as five. After Covid, many British companies gave the idea a go, but out of the sixty companies trying out a shorter working week in 2023, how many said they planned to continue with a shorter work week? Actually, a whopping 92% of the companies plan on keeping a reduced week because it was so popular, with bosses (26) _______ workers!

For (27) _______ years, people (28) _______ that they'll be really quite dramatic reductions in working time, like Elon Musk has just made, and previously those predictions - although we're heading very gradually in that direction – those predictions of very, very large changes in working time just (29) _______  yet. The future is (30) _______to predict because it’s so unexpected!