- pilot 试点;试行
Thousands of UK workers are starting a four-day work week from Monday with no cut to their pay in the largest trial of its kind.
- work week 任务周;一周的任务时光
- with no cut to their pay 人为不减
- trial 实验
The pilot, which will last for six months, involves 3,300 workers spanning 70 companies, ranging from providers of financial services to a fish-and-chip restaurant.
- last for 连续
- involve 涵盖
- span 逾越;高出;连续;贯串;包含(宽大地域);涵盖(多项内容)
- range from to 范畴从…到…
- fish and chip 炸鱼加土豆条;炸鱼薯条
During the program, workers receive 100% of their pay for working only 80% of their usual week, in exchange for pro欧易交易所mising to maintain 100% of their productivity.
- in exchange for 用来交流
- p欧易交易所romise to 承诺;许诺
- productivity 出产率;出产效力
The program is being run by not-for-profit 4 Day Week Global, Autonomy, a think tank, and the 4 Day Week UK Campaign in partnership with researchers from Cambridge University, Oxford University and Boston College.
- not-for-profit 非红利性的
- think tank 军师团;智库
- in partnership with 跟…配合/错误
Sienna O'Rourke, brand manager at Pressure Drop Brewing, an independent brewery in London, told CNN Business that the company's biggest goal was to improve the mental health and well-being of its employees.
- brand manager 品牌司理
- brewery 酿酒商
- mental health 心思安康
- well-being 幸福;福利
"The pandemic [has] made us think a great deal about work and how people organize their 欧易交易所lives," she said. "We're doing this t欧易交易所o improve the lives of our staff and be part of a progressive change in the world."
- pandemic 疫情
- a great deal 欧易交易所很多
- think about 考虑
- progressive 提高的;进步的;开通的;稳步的;逐渐的;稳固开展的
Given the company manufactures and ships products, workers have less flexibility about when and where they work, O'Ro欧易交易所urke said. But any difficulties in navigating holiday and sick leave would be tackled as a team.
- given 鉴于;斟酌到
- manufacture 出产;制作
- ship 运输
- flexibility 机动性
- navigate 找到准确方式(凑合艰苦庞杂的情形)
- sick leave 病假
- tackle 处理;应答
Until now, Iceland had conducted the biggest pilot of a shorter working week between 2015 and 2019, with 2,500 public sector workers involved in two large trials. Those trials found no corresponding drop in productivity among participants, and a dramatic increase in employee well-being.
- until now 到当初为止,迄今
- conduct 实行;停止
- public sector 国营部分;大众部分
- (be)involved in 参加
- corresponding 合乎的;响应的;相干的
- participant 参加职员
- dramatic 宏大的
Calls to shorten the working week have gathered steam in recent years in several countries. As millions of employees switched to remote work during the pandemic — cutting onerous commuting time and costs — calls for greater flexibility have only grown louder.
- shorten(short)使…变短
- gather steam 低落
- switch to 切换至;转换到
- remote work 近程办公
- onerous [?o?n?r?s] 沉重的;艰难的;费劲的;令人焦急的
- commuting 通勤
Government-backed trials are set to take place in Spain and Scotland later this year, the 4 Day Week Campaign said in a press release.
- -backed …支撑的
- be set to 将要…
- take place 产生;举办;停止
- press release 消息通稿
Joe O'Connor, CEO of 4 Day Week Global, said that the workers have shown they can work "shorter and smarter."
"As we emerge from the pandemic, more and more companies are recognizing that the new frontier for competition is quality of life, and that reduced-hour, output-focused working is the vehicle to give them a competitive edge," he said in the statement.
- emerge from 解脱;离开
- recognize 认识到;承认,接收,同意
- frontier 边境
- reduced-hour 时光增加的
- output-focused 专一产出的
- vehicle [?vi??kl] 手腕;东西
- give sb an edge 给人一种上风
Researchers will measure the impact the new working pattern will have on productivity levels, gender equality, the environment as well as worker well-being.
- measure 丈量
- have impact on 对…有影响
- working pattern 任务形式
- gender equality 性别同等
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