💵📂👨‍💻Job Market 💳🧾 [Unit 8]

1) Do you enjoy your job?

Complete the answers to the title question with "have to" or "don't have to"

1. I hate it. I have to go to so many boring metings. I can't stand it!

2. It's great. I don't have to work very hard.

3. It's great. I mean, I don't have to wear a suit and tie to the office. I can just wear what I like.

4. It's great apart from the fact that I have to wear a horrible uniform. I look really stupid in it.

5. It's OK. I work quite hard, but I don't have to take work home with me, which is good.

6. Yes, it's great. I don't have to start work until ten.

(My score was 98%)

 

2) What's E-Work?

Reading Comprehension Activity

Complete the gaps with these words: < each other - wireless - away - connected - button - received - advantage - working practices - workers >

E-Work is a term extensively used in Europe, an amplification of the original 1980s and '90s concepts of Telework or Telecommuting: working at a distance using information and communications technology.

The concept of e-work extends the purely physical aspects of the old European telework and US telecommuting concepts to include social dynamics; for example, the influence on how we work factors, such as networks of excellence, flexible working practices, roles and relationships between managers, workers and clients when working using ICT (Information and Communications Technology) tools.

With the appearance of wireless networks, we are increasingly seeing e-work practices incorporated into "local" and hybrid environments, roaming workers in a large office complex for example, working together at the same time and connected to their colleagues in another timezone. The emphasis on e-work only being something that joins people who are physically a long way away from each other is diminishing. "What is an e-worker?" is nowadays a question that is defined more by what you do and how you do it rather than how far away you are from each other.

The ability to exchange information electronically between users is a major advantage of networking computers. This way of communicating (e-mail and e-workflow) is now standard. Rather than exchanging memos on paper, incurring printing costs and delays, network users can instantly send messages to others and even check if they have been received and read. Work can be completed on an electronic form or soft copy and posted electronically. In this way, many people can review, approve and send information at the click of a button. Other related terms are E-Professional, Telework, Telecommuting (US English)

(My score was 100%)

 

3)  Are you a workaholic?

Final results: My scored was 74 points, so yes! I'm considered highly workaholic. This mean that I'm headed toward burnout, and new research suggests that family members may be experiencing emotional repercussions as well.

 

4) Job Options

Jeff talks about job considerations such as pay, uniforms, and schedules

1) What does Jeff prefer when working?

b) Working as a team

 

2) What does he prefer about dress?

a) Wearing a uniform

3) Does he prefer a set schedule or flexible schedule?

b) Flexible schedule

 

4) What pay structure does he prefer?

a) Salary