OVERTIME - Business English vocabulary lesson about working extra hours

OVERTIME - Business English vocabulary lesson about working extra hours

Author: Chris - Breakout Business English September 17, 2025 Duration: 23:04
Send us Fan Mail Deciding whether to work overtime is often a challenging decision to make, and speaking in English about it can make it harder! Today let's talk about overtime, the vocabulary that we can use to discuss it, how we get paid for overtime, and the phrases and grammar structures that we use at work, in English when discussing overtime. If you're a non-native English speaker and you want to sound more native and natural when you're speaking English with your colleagues, managers, ...

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