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TEST: Separating work and home

TEST: Separating work and home

Sometimes it can be hard to separate your work and home life. Can you switch off at the end of a hard day, or do you overburden colleagues with issues from home? Take our test to discover what your predisposition is and how to overcome any issues.

1. You arrive one morning to work very worried about a family matter. In the face of curiosity from your colleagues you
Tell them that you’re OK, that you’re just a bit worried about a few things, and then get to work
Tell them all about it and ask for their advice
Avoid them and get lost in your work, even if you are a little bit late starting
Look grave but wait until someone asks you directly what the problem is before offloading your problems
2. Your team at work is in crisis mode. The management have suggested a meeting so that everyone can air their views.
When your turn comes, you get straight to the heart of the problem, although you listen to what others have to say so that you can best understand what has happened
Use the occasion to try to motivate others, encouraging each person to express their opinion
Let others speak. When it comes to your turn you sum up your vision of how things should be done in three or four concise sentences
Take the opportunity to get a few things off your chest
3. In your opinion, emotions at work ought to be:
Hidden
Channelled into something useful
Controlled
Shared
4. A friend confesses to you that she has fallen for her boss who recently made a pass at her. How do you react? You:
Are glad it’s never happened to you
Are wondering if there’ll be a promotion in it for her
Think it’s a delicate situation
Want to know all the details
5. How does it make you feel when a colleague tells you something which is personal to them?
It’s never happened
You enjoy sharing
You don’t mind, but as long as it’s only once in a while
You see it as a mark of trust in you
6. You come across one of your colleagues crying in the corridor. You:
Walk by discreetly so that you don’t have to get involved
Give them a hug, comfort them and give them some friendly advice
Comfort them and ask them if they want to tell you what it’s all about
Ask them what the matter is
7. Two colleagues start arguing right in front of you. You:
Wade in and make your opinion known
Stare at them, distracted from your work
Try to calm things down by acting as a mediator
Ask them politely to settle their differences out of work, and further away from you
8. A new person at work means a new:
Name to try to remember
Friend to make
Dynamic to the group
Person to integrate into the group
9. At work you would take offence if someone:
Asked you to relax a bit
Accused you of sucking up to the boss
Accused you of slacking
Asked you to keep a look out for the boss while they were gossiping
10. How often do you go to the pub with colleagues:
Sometimes
Never
If necessary
Often
11. How do you think your colleagues perceive you? As:
The joker
The agony aunt/uncle
Someone who is always eager to find new things out
The mentor
12. What would you find most difficult to deal with:
Home working
A poorly equipped office
An open-plan office
Having to work alone

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