职场新概念英语（13）

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【篇一】加班不肯走? 日本公司用无人机赶员工回家!

A Japanese firm is planning to use a drone to force employees out of their offices by playing music at them if they stay to work evening overtime.

The drone will fly through offices after hours playing Auld Lang Syne, which is commonly used to announce that stores are closing.

Japan has for years been trying to curb excessive overtime and the health issues and even deaths it can cause.

Experts were unimpressed, one branding it a "silly" idea.

According to Japanese media, office security and cleaning firm Taisei will develop the device with drone maker Blue Innovation and telecommunications company NTT East.

The camera-equipped drone will take flights through the office space playing the famous Scottish tune.

"You can't really work when you think 'it's coming over any time now' and hear Auld Lang Syne along with the buzz," Norihiro Kato, a director at Taisei, told news agency AFP.

Taisei plans to start the drone service in April 2018 as a trial within their own company and later in the year offer it to others.

"Will this help? The short answer is: no," Seijiro Takeshita, professor of management and information at the University of Shizuoka told the BBC.

"It's a pretty silly thing and companies are doing this just because they have to be seen to be doing something on the problem."

The issue of excessive overtime is deeply rooted in the work culture and should be tackled from a more fundamental basis, he argues.

"Creating awareness is of course very important - but this is almost a hoax in my opinion."

Scott North, professor of sociology at Osaka University, said: "Even if this robotic harassment gets workers to leave the office, they will take work home with them if they have unfinished assignments."

He added: "To cut overtime hours, it is necessary to reduce workloads, either by reducing the time-wasting tasks and tournament-style competitions for which Japanese workplaces are notorious, or by hiring more workers."

【篇二】译文

一家日本公司计划用无人机对着晚上加班的员工播放音乐，迫使员工离开办公室。

无人机在下班时间后会飞过一间又一间办公室，播放《友谊地久天长》。这首乐曲通常在商店打烊的时候播放。

多年来，日本一直试图遏制过度加班以及由此引发的健康问题，甚至过劳死。

专家们对该公司的这一举措反应冷淡，一名专家还认为这个主意“很蠢”。

据日本媒体报道，主营办公室安保和保洁的大成公司将同无人机制造商“蓝色创新”和电信公司NTT East联手研发这款无人机。

这款配备了摄像头的无人机将在办公区飞行，同时播放这首的苏格兰乐曲。

大成公司的一位名叫Norihiro Kato的主管告诉法新社说：“当你想到无人机随时可能过来并将听到伴随着嗡嗡声的《友谊地久天长》，你就干不下去了。”

大成公司计划从2018年4月起启动无人机服务，先在自己的公司试运行，然后明年晚些时候开始对外提供服务。

日本静冈县立大学管理和信息学教授Seijiro Takeshita告诉BBC说：“这会起作用吗？简短的回答是：不会。”

“这种做法挺蠢的，这些公司这么做是为了让人们看到他们为了解决问题已经有所行动。”

这位教授指出，过度加班的深层次原因在于日本的职场文化，应该从根源解决问题。

“让大家意识到这个问题当然很重要——但在我看来这就是个骗 局。”

大阪大学的社会学教授斯科特·诺斯说：“就算这个扰民的无人机迫使员工离开了办公室，如果任务没有完成，他们还是得带回家继续做。”

他还表示：“要减少加班时间，就必须减少工作量，要么减少浪费时间的任务和日本企业间臭名昭著的荣誉之争，要么雇佣更多人手。”

【篇三】无聊的工作会议让你神游?永远不要为此感到愧疚

We've all been there: You're at a dull work meeting or presentation, and your mind keeps wandering-to what to eat for lunch, your weekend plans, or what's going on with the new season of Stranger Things.

Don't feel so bad about all your daydreaming. Mind-wandering may be a sign of intelligence and creativity, according to a new study in the journal Neuropsychologia. And as long as your performance at work are doesn't suffer when your mind drifts, daydreaming may not be such a bad thing after all, the study authors say.

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology wanted to study what happens to people's brain patterns when they're told to lie still and do nothing-a prime opportunity for mind-wandering. So they asked 112 study participants to do just that: lie in an MRI machine while starting at a fixed point for five minutes.

The research team used those readings to identify which parts of the brain worked together during this type of awake but resting state, and they also compared the readings to tests the participants took to measure their creative and intellectual abilities. In addition, the participants filled out a questionnaire about how much their mind wandered in daily life.

The researchers made several interesting connections. People who reported more frequent daydreaming during the day scored higher on creative and intellectual tests. Their MRIs also showed they had more efficient brain systems-meaning different regions of the brain were more in sync with each other-compared to people who reported less frequent mind-wandering.

The finding that mind-wandering is associated with intelligence was somewhat surprising, says lead author Christine Godwin, a psychology PhD candidate. That's because previous research has linked mind-wandering to poorer performance on memory and reading-comprehension tests, lower SAT scores, negative mood, and mental-health disorders.

"But when you think about the possibility that mind-wandering can potentially be helpful at times for cognitive-or at least not directly harmful-it makes sense," Godwin tells Health. Other research has also suggested that daydreaming (along with night dreaming) may help people become better problem-solvers, and that daydreaming about the future "can be particularly beneficial in preparing individuals to obtain their upcoming goals," the authors wrote in their paper.

【篇四】译文

我们都有过这种经历：你听着无聊的工作会议或展示，而你的大脑一直在神游--中午吃什么、周末怎么安排、或者新一季的《怪奇物语》会发生什么。

千万不要为自己的神游感到内疚。《神经心理学》杂志刊登的一项新研究表明：走神可能是聪慧和创造力的一种迹象。走神的时候，只要你的工作表现不受影响，那也许神游并不是一件坏事，研究作者表示。

佐治亚理工学院的研究人员想要研究当人们被要求躺着什么都不做的时候，他们的大脑模式会发生何种情况--这是走神的机会。所以他们要求112位研究对象做了这样的事情：躺在核磁共振仪器中盯着一个点，盯五分钟。

这一研究小组用这些读数确定在这种清醒但休息的状态下，大脑的哪些部分会一起运作。他们还将这些读数与受试者所做的测试（测试他们的创造力和智力）进行了比较。此外，受试者还填写了一份问卷：每天走神多久。

研究人员做了几个有趣的联系。与那些声称自己白天神游次数更少的人相比，那些声称自己白天神游次数更多的人在创造力和智力测试上得了更高分；他们的核磁共振成像也表明他们的大脑系统更有效--意味着大脑的不同区域之间更加一致。

博士预科生、首席作者克里斯汀·戈德温说，研究结果有点令人吃惊：神游与智力相关。这是因为先前的研究表明神游或导致记忆力差、阅读理解能力差、SAT分数更低、情绪消极、以及精神健康障碍。

"但当你思考神游或能潜在的、不时的提高认知--或至少没有直接伤害时--这也是有道理的，"戈德温对《健康》杂志说道。其它研究也表明：做白日梦（以及晚上做梦）或帮助人们更好的解决问题，而幻想自己的未来'对于个人实现即将到来的目标尤为有益，'研究作者在论文中写道。

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