新闻英语视听说Unit2~Unit6
Unit 2 Part B Working when and where you want Elizabeth Vargas: Finally tonight working when and where you like.Juggling a career and a family is a challenge for so many Americans. Flex-time schedule s are a godnd for many workers, giving them wide latitude when they can begin and end their workdays. The giant retailer Best Buy is trying a bold new approach that allows employees even more freedom. ABC’s Best Stark explains.
汤包的制作方法Betsy Stark: Brian Lucas has a demanding job as a public relations manager for Best Buy. He also has a baby, a toddler and a wife with cancer who needs frequent trips to the doctor. The stress is so inten, he considered taking a leave until Best Buy told him he could work when—and where—he wants. Brian Lucas:I don’t have to show m y face in the office a certain number of hours to make sure people know I’m working. Betsy Stark:Lucas’s car isn’t the only missing from the office parking lot. We found Human Resources director Leanne Andern playing ball with her kids.
西湖Leanne Andern:I bring a little bit more of mylf into the office. I know I bring a lot more of 读后感标题
mylf home every day too. Betsy Stark: More than 2000 employees in corporate headquarters now come and go as they plea. Part of a radical experiment, the company calls ROWE: Results Orientaed Work Environment, work when you want to—just get the work done. Cali Ressler (ROWE coordinator for Best Buy): It’s about the results, not about the time that it takes someone to get to tho results.
Betsy Stark: Best Buy claims productivity has incread 13 percent since the program was introduced two years ago—department heads, such as Chap Achen, feared the workplace run amuck.
Chap Achen(to one staff): It’s a good plan at this point, but I think just needs a little bit of tightening up.
Betsy Stark: Now, he’s a big fan.
Chap Achen: You can find a performance problem a lot faster on this program becau that’s all you’re looking for is their performance.
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Betsy Stark:It’s one thing to let a couple of thousand workers behind the scenes at corporate headquarters come and go as they plea. But 100,000 cashiers and sales clerks making their own hours? Cali Ressler says that’s the next goal, though she’s hard-presd to explain how it will work.
Cali Ressler: Our retail store test will be tough.
Betsy Stark: In the meantime, Brian Lucas is able to help his wife through a hard time, and Leanne Andern is bating a thousand with her son.干呕怎么回事
Leanne Andern: This year I made every little league game my son played in.
Betsy Stark: And she got all her work done, too. Betsy Stark, ABC News, Minneapolis.
Elizabeth Vargas: Great ideas for working moms and dads and that’s world news tonight. I’m Elizabeth Vargas, have a great evening and good night.
Part C No Smoking! Damn It!
Elizabeth Vargas: In Ireland, this was the last evening residents could light up legally at the local pub. The new smoking ban is the toughest in the world, and just the latest law the government thinks will improve the qualify of life. Just try and ll that to so me of the Irish.. ABC’s Richard Gizbert reports from Dublin. Richard Gizbert: In this land of free-flowing Guinness and smoky pubs. “Happy Hours” were already history, banned by law. And the new New-York-Style smoking ban will affect all bars and restaurants here.
B. O’Connor (Journalist): Funnily enough, it was the smoking and the drinking together, just gave the people the impression that, hang on a minute, there’s a kind of new Puritanism coming in here that we never asked for.
Richard Gizbert: Nor did the Irish ask for a tax on fatty food, but the government is talking about one to combat obesity. It all adds up to trouble at this greasy spoon, for the owner and her largely nicotine-addicted clientele. What’s it gonna do to a place like yours?
C. Ward (cafe owner): Possibly clo me down, eh, ninety-five percent of the customers here are smokers.
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A customer: They might as well lock us all up and throw away the key! If they take any more away from us, you know. Richard Gizbert: Then there are the environmental taxes, already levied on plastic bags, now propod for A TM receipts and chewing gum, becau they pollute the streets. Not even the Catholic church has escaped the watchful eye of a government that ems determined to protect the Irish from themlves. The issue here: incen, a possible health hazard, according to one politician, particularly for altar boys. With its booming economy and its new immigrants, Ireland is changing, and where governments here once focud on pocket book issues, putting food on the table, this one appears preoccupied with overindulgence.
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