Time vs. space

[Quang]

Test No. incompl/advan-7 "Job Interview", question 6

As this is a managerial post, we must ask you how you deal with bad ......... keeping or unpunctuality in an employee.

(a) house
(b) space
(c) time
(d) record

Test No. incompl/advan-7 "Job Interview", answer 6

As this is a managerial post, we must ask you how you deal with bad time keeping or unpunctuality in an employee.

Correct answer: (c) time

Your answer was: incorrect
As this is a managerial post, we must ask you how you deal with bad space keeping or unpunctuality in an employee.
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why we use time instead of space for this sentence

[Alan]

Unpunctuality is to do with time not space.
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[St?phanie]

Hi, I don't understand why we have to put time here and not anything else? Because with the or I thought the employer was pointing at two different things.

[Alan]

Hi Stephanie,

In very many of the tests I try, where possible, to indicate the meaning of a word or the word that's needed by choosing a similar word. Here unpunctuality is another way of saying bad time keeping.

Alan
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[St?phanie]

Okay, i got it now. Thank you