Vocabulary Practice: At the Office

Giving employees some ......... often helps improve their morale. It feels good to know that you're doing your job well.
isolation
annoyance
validation
description

Health insurance, vacation time, and a ......... plan are all examples of employee benefits.
pension
withdrawal
retreat
retire

Many managers use the ......... and the stick approach with their employees. If you do well, you'll get a reward. If you don't, you'll get punished.
rock
carrot
muffin
stork

Since I'm so good at completing my ......... work ahead of schedule, the boss is assigning me a special project to complete.
prolonged
imagined
regular
interruptive

It's hard to stay focused on a complicated task when there are a lot of ......... at work.
relations
distractions
combinations
locations

It's sometimes hard to know how much to offer employees in the way of .......... You want to pay them enough so that they'll be motivated and happy at work, but not so much that you go broke.
reconciliation
validation
compensation
explanation

Employees who have the most ......... tend to get paid more. Usually, your salary goes up the longer you work for a company.
seniority
friends
networks
field work

People who receive a ......... amount of money per year, instead of being paid by the hour, are known as salaried employees.
parceled
sectioned
pieced
fixed

How hard employees are willing to work is often affected by their morale. If their ......... are low, they won't be willing to work as hard as when they are high.
suitors
spirits
sympathies
solutions

One can learn a lot about an employee or coworker by spending time with the person on his or her .........-time.
on
full
part
off