Name: Talking about the office 💻👨💼🖇 Real Easy English
Uploaded: 2026-03-08T16:37:10.000Z
Duration: 5 min 18 s
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In this podcast, we have real conversations in Easy English to help you understand.

You can watch a video of this podcast and find a worksheet to help you learn on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.

We are talking about work and the office.

An office is a place with desks and computers where people do their jobs.

Ok. We are in a studio in the office, but we'll go back to the office after this.

Do you work at home or do you work in the office?

I work in the office usually three days a week and I work from home two days a week.

So, yeah, at home twice, where I have a sort of place that could be considered a home office.

I think it's easy to get work done in the office because it's an office environment, it's a workplace.

But I also quite like working from home sometimes because commuting.

You know, coming to work and going back is really tiring if you do it every day.

I like working from home occasionally, but I definitely prefer being in the office.

I think being with colleagues around you and I need people and then I can work better.

I think when you're in the office, yeah, it's louder than at home.

I find it's easier to work in an office environment because everyone else is working, but

I feel more lonely at home because it's just me.

I also have a bit of a problem with working from home because the, the boundary or the line between work and home is not so clear.

So when you finish your day, you close your computer and you think, oh, hang on, I'm still at home.

And sometimes you feel like you should be doing things for home when you're actually working.

Like it's strange being at home because it's harder to know whether you should be working or doing a bit of Housework in the office.

It's easier to just sit, be with your laptop, be with your colleagues and just be working.

Have you ever worked somewhere that is not an office?

It was a farm park, so lots of children playing.

And there was a cafe, there was a play area, go karts, being with animals.

I've worked in all kinds of places, especially when I was a student.

I've worked in restaurants, bars, all kinds of places that are not offices.

Let's recap some of the vocabulary we heard in this podcast.

We had office, a place with desks and computers where people go to work sometimes at BBC Learning English, we work in the office we had working remotely, which we often also call working from home.

And that means working somewhere that isn't the office, for example, your home.

But it could also be a cafe or something.

And we compared working from home with working from an office.

So it's harder to concentrate at home or it's more difficult to get your work done in the office?

Yes, and it's louder in the office, but sometimes that's better.

That's it for this episode of Real Easy English.

You can test what you've learned with a worksheet, which you can download for free from our website, bbclearningenglish.

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