Working at home in your nightclothes while saving hundreds of dollars may sound too good to be true, but it isn’t. More and more employees are telecommuting, doing their job at home or another remote site.
"It’s a trend that’s here now and you’re going to see a lot more telecommuting because people don’t have to put up with commuting (来回上下班). They want more work / life balance, they want less stress in their lives and companies want to drive costs after their bottom lines," says John Edwards, President of the International Telework Association and Council.
However, Edwards says, "The biggest problem at the moment is dealing with middle management who is uncomfortable with management style focusing on results. They are used to the line of sight management style. But they have to change to more results-oriented management style which can often be slightly opposite, so they feel uncomfortable with that."
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A. It can balance employees’ work and life.
B. It can help save the cost for companies.
C. It can reduce conflicts between employers and employers.
D. It can kill the time spent in going to work from hom
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As summer approaches, there is good news and bad in our latest Insider Advantage poll. With terrorism in the back of our minds and a terrible economy in the front of it, only 17 % of American adults say they plan to travel less this summer than in the past, 24% say they will travel more and the rest say nothing has changed this vacation season from past ones. That’s the good news but the poll portends some bad news, too, indicating what might be a deep-seated problem in the United States today, harder to fathom than terrorist killers or empty wallets. The only age group that has more ambitious travel plans than ever is the 18- 29 age group showing a 44 % jump in vacation plans over last year. That’s hardly great news for the travel and hospitality industry, which desperately need bigger spenders on the road.
Beyond that, the wide disparity in travel plans among the younger and older says something about the just-out-of-college generation.
A. The hard economic times.
B. Their need for instant gratification.
C. Expectations that they have a fight to pleasure.
D. A lack of sacrifice.
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