遠距工作好處多？WORKING AT THE OFFICE OR AT HOME
你喜歡在辦公室還是在家上班？Where would you rather work?
瓊安：你有管道獲得所需訊息嗎？有些我認識的人若只在家辦公，就會有困難獲取訊息。
羅伯：我們部門有個線上平臺，大家需要的任何東西都能在上面找到，不管身在何方。
瓊安：那真是太棒了。不過你知道嗎，我剛開始在家辦公的時候，都覺得工作太累了。我以為大家都不斷工作不會休息，所以我也那樣做。我從來不休息；甚至連吃午餐都覺得有罪惡感。
羅伯：我一開始也是那樣，不過我跟經理談過這件事。最後他反而多僱用了一些人來幫忙。妳必需給自己和家人一些時間。
瓊安：我想也是。有些人認為居家辦公的人不會認真工作，不過事實上相反。
羅伯：我也聽說過員工居家辦公會比較認真。而且，大家都喜歡不必通勤往返。
瓊安：是啊。一些統計數據顯示，超過百分之八十三的人現在都希望能夠居家辦公。
羅伯：我看報導說有些公司也比較喜歡員工居家辦公。
瓊安：我知道。我也讀到關於一家上海公司表示他們一個月在租金上就省下了大概兩千美元。而且員工的生產力也提高了；這在之前還有現在顯然都是一種雙贏的做法。
羅伯：我想，遠距工作是有其優勢的，對吧？
Joan：Did you have access to all the information you needed? Some people I know had difficulty getting information when they only worked from home.
Robert：My department has an online platform where we can find anything we need wherever we are.
Joan：That's great. But you know, when I started working from
home, I felt overworked. I thought everyone was working nonstop, so I did, too. I never took breaks. I even felt guilty about eating lunch.
Robert：I felt that way at first, but I discussed it with my manager. He ended up hiring some more people to help. You need to take time for yourself and your family.
Joan：I guess. Some people think that people won't work very hard from home, but it's actually the opposite. I've heard that people work harder from home, too. And people like not having to commute.
Robert：Yeah. Some statistics showed that over 83 percent of people now want the ability to work from home. I've read that some companies are in favor of people working from home, too.
Joan：I know. I read that a company in Shanghai reported saving about US$2,000 a month on rent.
And people's productivity increased as well. It was and still is a win-win arrangement.
Robert：I guess working remotely has advantages, eh?
guilty（adj.）愧疚的
Dan felt very guilty when he realized he had forgotten his wife’s birtheday.
After cheating on the history test, Bridget felt guilty and told her teacher what she had done.
guilt（n.）
Ben felt no sense of guilt about taking money out of his mother’s purse to go to a movie.
hire（v.）僱用
Kyle was hired to teach 6th grade math after he graduated from college.
Angela was hired to wait tables at a summer camp. 被僱用在一個夏令營當服務生
Hire hand僱工；僱員
Brett works as a hired hand helping with a farm’s horses and cows.
to have difficulty ＋（v.ing）
platform vs. app
Now a platform is different than an app or a website.
A platform is usually a very specific website or a very specific, um, platform like a social media platform, and everyone gets their information from that place.
Now, of course, these platforms can have related apps, and most of them do, like Facebook has its own app, Telegram has its own app or Discord has its own app, right?
overwork(ed)
workaholic n.工作第一的人；專心工作的人；工作狂
manager vs. supervisor
Now if you have someone above you who is kind of responsible for the work that you do and you have to report to that person, usually I would say that's a supervisor.
And a manager is usually over the supervisor, correct?
So it goes manager, supervisor, and then the employee.
middle managerment
中級管理層是分層組織的中級管理層，從屬於執行管理層，負責“團隊領導”直線經理和/或“專家”直線經理。中級管理層對初級員工的績效和生產力間接負責。與直線經理不同，由於中間經理被授權代表組織向直線經理，初級員工和客戶說話和行事，因此被認為是高級職位。
self-care
take care of yourself
guilty pressure
Eating fried chicken is a guilty pressure for me.
opposite（adj.）對立的；相反的
Even though they are twins, Barb is opposite of her sister. 截然不同
Patrica always parks on the opposite side of the road from her apartment. 公寓對面的馬路上
Sally turned left even though the sign to the town pointed in the opposite direction. 前往小鎮的路邊指向相反的方向
commute（v.）上下班（學）的通勤
Isabel commutes an hour to work each way.
單程通勤上下班要花一個小時
Will worked from home last year and didn’t have to commute to his office.
commute減刑
The judge commuted the robber’s prison sentence from six to three years in prison.
從六年減到三年
I geuss = reluctant / unsure
statistics / stats
in favor of ＋（n.）
means you approve of doing something
politicians or to elections
a politician could be in favor of a new law or not in favor of it.
prefer
a win-win agreetment
It's hard for me to choose between working from home or working from an office because, really, I would like to have a mixture of both.
And the biggest benefit of that is freedom.
If I'm working from home, then I don't have to just work at home.
I could also work in a café or on a beach or some other place where I feel inspired and able to focus.
But if I also have the freedom to go to the office now and then, then I can see my other coworkers.
Maybe we can have a meeting, or there might be some project that I need to be next to them in order to do.
So I think, for me, the biggest benefit of having a mix of both is freedom.
So what I think the biggest benefit of working from home is... that you have no commute time.
So I feel like the most frustrating thing for people who work is the commute.
Sometimes you're on a [an] MRT for over an hour, or some people take the train into the city.
Or even just having to like get up really early to be able to go to work is sometimes really hard for people.
Um.
I had a friend who took a train into the city every day, and her commute was like an hour and a half.
And so without this commute time, I just find that your life is so much more convenient.
I really like to work in an office setting.
I like to be around other people.
caravan
nonstop
