SSC MTS 2024 PYQ — Question 86

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Employers, nowadays, are (1)_______ on team-building as it proves to be useful in being more productive. So, they create occasions for the employees to spend time together. Some employees are sick (2) ________ office festival parties with mandatory dress codes and fun competitions. Some others (3)____ of having to forcibly bond with colleagues during after-work happy hours when they would rather be at home. A French court (4)____ recently that one very much has the right to be boring at the workplace. Seven years after Mr. T was fired from his company for not participating in fun activities, which included going out for drinks after work once a week, the court said that Mr. T was merely exercising his ‘freedom of expression’. It added that the company’s culture of fun (5)________ Mr. T ‘s fundamental right to ‘dignity and respect of private life’. However, employers and HR personnel insist that team-bonding initiatives are crucial to the workplace and the employees too feel the same if they want promotions.