职场新概念英语：灵活工作制办公的魅力与困惑.docVIP

职场新概念英语：灵活工作制办公的魅力与困惑 Like many an office novelty, agile working is becoming a corporate mantra. It has been on trend for at least 20 years and rather more commonplace since the arrival of the mobile phone and broadband. 如诸多职场新鲜事物一样，灵活工作制正在成为企业流行词。灵活工 作制成为趋势已有至少 20 年，自从移动电话和宽带问世以来，灵活工 作制变得愈加常见。 It seems like a win-win ： employers measure employees ’ output without sweating the time taken for a long lunch; employees gain a newfound autonomy that is unprecedented in postwar business practice. In some ways, it nostalgically mirrors student work styles ： do it in your time, at your chosen place or indeed in your pyjamas. 这似乎是一场双赢：雇主们评定员工绩效时无需计较员工午饭时间过 长；员工们也获得了在战后的职场中从未有过的全新自主权。在某些 方面，它让人仿佛回到了学生时代：功课何时做随你，在哪做随你， 或实际上穿着睡衣做也行。 Agile working is increasingly popular. According to a recent UK Labour Force Survey, nearly 10m people work remotely some or all of the time, and a study in February 2016 by Lancaster University found that about half of all employers planned to adopt agile or flexible working by 2017. But it may also be the case that agile working has hit a tipping point. 灵活办公如今越来越流行。最近一份英国劳动力调查 (Labour Force Survey) 显示，有将近 1000 万人有时或一直远程工作，另外，兰卡斯 特大学(Lancaster University) 2016 年 2 月的一项研究发现，大约半 数雇主计划在 2017年年底前采用灵活或弹性工作制。不过，灵活工作 制也可能已经到了一个临界点。 Today’s agile working is a far cry from the simple flexitime of the 1980s. Now it involves working wherever you like, including from home, while you are connected to the office via chat systems, intranets and emails; flexitime simply meant coming in later every so often. 当今的灵活工作制与上世纪 80 年代的弹性工作时间制已相差甚远。 现在你想在哪（包括在家）工作都行，工作时你能够通过聊天系统、 内部网以及电子邮件与办公室保持联系；而弹性工作时间制仅仅是指 时不时地晚来一会儿。 Agile working has attained more popularity based on the proposition that if you get your work done, you can take as much time off as you want. Compared to the old cumbersome mode of work, which involved commuting to an office, punching in, sitting at a desk, taking a break at an anointed hour and then the same in reverse, today work can be more flexible ： a