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2. Match up the following words and expressions into logical pairs:

1. career a. blue-collar worker

2. flexitime b. job satisfaction

3. having a baby c. clocking in

4. manual labour d. permanent job

5. motivation e. maternity leave

6. office work f. white collar worker

3. Think what sort of job do you have or would like to have? Describe it.

  • What do you do? What are in charge of? What are your responsibilities?

  • What time do leave for work? How long does it take to get to work?

  • Do you have to clock on and off? Is there a flexitime system in your organization?

  • Do you ever work in shifts?

  • Could you do your job working from home?

READING 2

1. Would you like to work from home? Give your reasons.

2. Work in groups and discuss advantages of telecommuting for:

  • the company

  • the environment

3. Now read the article and check your answers.

Satisfied companies and employees expand the world of telecommuting.

It’s a lot easier for Angela Hawkins to work night and on weekends than it was last year. A few months ago, the 34-year-old Northern Telecom manager traded in her office at the company’s headquarters for an office in her home. Now she is a telecommuter, and keeps in touch with the office by e-mail, voice-mail, fax, and telephone conversations.

It’s a new and expanding world. Across the United States, there are 11 million telecommuters who work from home at least one day a month, an increase of 30 per cent from 2000.

About 500 of Northern Telecom’s 8,500 employees are telecommuters. They include people like Angela who are full-time telecommuters, and those who keep offices both at home and at the company headquarters.

In 1995 Northern Telecom began encouraging telecommuting by providing all the equipment an employee needed to set up a home office, and installing all the electric equipment. It also provides facilities at its headquarters for telecommuters who occasionally have to come into the office.

Telecommute America, which represents telecommuters, did a survey of 500 managers. They found that 53 per cent believe that telecommuting improves worker productivity. It also found that companies are offering telecommuting as a way of attracting and keeping employees. Telecommuting helps those with families spend more time together, it results in less pollution, and it allows employees to work where and when they want to. Low employment means that companies have to work hard to find employees, and offering telecommuting is something that employees like.

4. Change the group and prepare the list of advantages and disadvantages that people could get if they telecommute.