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Band 6+: Do you think nowadays people have a better work life balance than in the past? How do people balance life and work? Do you think that people have more leisure time than people in the past?

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I think that people do not have a better work-life balance in their lives than in the past because, in the past, they had more time for relaxing and spending time with their relatives like parents, children, or other relatives. Nowadays, people wake up at 6 am, go to work, and come back home at 8 pm or 7 pm. They eat their lunch or dinner and then sleep. They have no time for their children.

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I think that people have not a better work life balance in their life than in the past because in the past they had more time for relaxing and spending their time with their relatives like parents, children or another relatives. In today’s days, people wake up at 6 am and go to work and come back from their work to their home at 8 pm or 7 pm. They eat their lunch or dinner and then they sleep and disappear. They have no time for their children.

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