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,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Part What can a company do for their employees-Work/home balance policies,Class 2,*,Background,It can be extraordinarily challenging to balance the demands of work and family, juggling family life with a career is a difficulty that has been faced by working mothers and fathers for many years.,Companies have become increasingly realized that enabling employees to maintain a good work-life balance can be beneficial for motivation and, therefore, productivity, and that staff work best when they lead fulfilled and happy lives.,The work/home balance policies,Key words and Phrases,：,Vanguard,：,n.【,军,】,先锋,尖兵,;,先驱,;,先进分子,最前锋的位置,;,领导地位,;,政治、社会或文化运动的领袖,; (,列成战斗队形的舰队的,),先头舰只,eg: In a way, they have played a vanguard role - a fact recognized by everybody except the die-hards.,paternity leave,：,n. (,丈夫为陪伴待分娩的妻子而获取的,),陪产假,flex-time,：,n. (or flexi time, flextime, originally derived from the German word Gleitzeit which literally means sliding time) is a variable work schedule, in contrast to traditional work arrangements requiring employees to work a standard 9am to 5pm day.,flex-place,：,n. A company policy that enables employees to work either at the office or from home. Also:,flex-place,flexi place,.,Listening skills:,Why Hochschild chose to study the Fortune 500 company called “Amerco”?,Then what did the family-friendly company offer to the employees?,Because it initiated the work/home balance policies.,Paternity leave; part-time work with benefits; job sharing; flex-time; flex-place,Paradoxes,Listen:,Why employees were still working very long hours since the company had carried out family-friendly policies?,work,family,Family-friendly policies,Why?,Family-friendly policies: A fig leaf,The answer to the Paradoxesthe company family-friendly policies are just a fig leaf on top of a highly workaholic culture,Key words and Phrases,：,pay lip service(to something):,to express loyalty, respect, or support for something insincerely; to say that you agree with and support an idea or plan but not do anything to help it to succeed,eg: You dont really care about politics. Youre just paying lip service to the candidate.,The company pays lip service to the notion of racial equality but you look around you and all you see are white faces.,a fig leaf,：,无花果树叶,遮羞布,A fig leaf is the covering up of an act or an object that is embarrassing or disagreeable. The term is a,metaphorical,reference to the,Biblical,Book of Genesis, in which,Adam and Eve,used,fig,leaves to cover their,nakedness, after eating the fruit from the,Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil,.,
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