2016年12月大学英语四级新闻听力练习(47)
自2016年6月英语四级考试起，四级听力新添加了短篇新闻。相对的，听力的难度也有所增加。但是再难的题目也禁不住多多的练习！文都教育提醒各位考生，要打起精神来迎战12月四六级考试，万不可轻敌松懈~唯有地基牢固才有摩天大楼，以下是小编为各位考生们准备的四级新闻听力练习，各位赶紧get起来吧!听力材料：
Now, should employees be allowed to take as muchholiday as they like? And it's an idea championed byBritish billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson,head of the Virgin Group. He is allowing some of hispersonal staff to take all the holiday they want withno questions asked. It isn't a new concept, but it isone that's gaining popularity around the world. Andit's meant to boost morale, creativity, productivityand workers' loyalty to the employers.
Occasionally, somebody will take a longer period of time, for example, if they've got ahoneymoon or a special occasion.
So they are paid for work. They are not paid for not working. If they were to take off threemonths in a year, they wouldn't earn as much as if they were doing the full 11 months and justtaking off a month.
They are paid as normal employees. So they are paid for whole time whether they are here ornot. The reality is nobody's ever taken any more than three and a half weeks. And those wereboth for honeymoons.
But isn't there resentment amongst the others who would say "I'm working harder than them.And look! They are all off".
I think the reality is people are more cooperative in the situation.
Don't you have accountants who say "This just isn't right. You've got to add it up".
It genuinely hasn't cause to any problem at all. It's one of the policies that we put in when wefirst set the company up nine years ago. And it's one of the policies that people said to me “Oh,you can do that while you are smaller. When you get bigger, you'll stop”. And we so far havehad no need to do that and have had no problem with it. We've only seen benefits.
And does it created different atmosphere in the company? What do you think?
I mean, it's one of many things. Something is really important that company share goals andpeople have shared purpose. You know, we have profit share schemes as well. So it's one ofmany things that just makes people feel much more plunged into the company, much more partof the company. We've got very low absentee.
I guess yours is a company where people turn up in the morning and they go away in theevening. They might work late because they are on a particular project. If you were running afactory, turning out machines, cars, for example, would it work then, do you think?
I couldn't really answer in terms of shift work because that's not something I‘ve had personalexperience. So…… But I do think in service industries now, people are expected to work verylong hours. You know, there is a lot of late nights. There's weekends if we have customerscontacting us. We have customers contacting us in the evenings or some days or whatever. Wehave to respond to that. We choose to respond to that.
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应不应该让员工随时享受休假？近日，维珍集团总裁、亿万富翁企业家理查德•布兰森爵士推出了这一理念。目前，他的一些员工已经开始享受无理由自由休假制度了。这一理念以前就有，只是现在才受到世人关注。此举旨在鼓舞士气、激发创造力、提高工作效率和对公司的忠诚度。
偶尔会有人休长假，用来度蜜月或处理一些特殊情况。
工作就有钱拿，请假就不发工资。那如果员工一年中请假三个月，就不会有请假一个月、全职工作11个月的工资多了。
请假期间工资照发，请不请假都是全职的工资。实际上，员工请假没有超过三周半的。请这么长时间假的两个人都是度蜜月去了。
但是，这不会引起其他员工的不满吗？他们可能会发牢骚说：“我工作比他们努力。看，他们都请假走了。”
其实，我觉得在这种情况下，大家都更加懂得包容合作了。
没有会计提醒你：“这么做不对，你得核算一下他们的工作时间”吗？
这个制度还确实没带来什么麻烦。这是9年前我们刚成立公司的时候就定下的制度之一。别人也经常告诉我:“公司规模小的时候可以这么做，等到公司成长起来，你就不能这么做了。”但目前我们还没必要更换这一制度，也没发现什么问题。我们看到的只是它带来的好处。
那么，您认为这种制度有没有给公司的气氛带来一些改变？
调节公司气氛的制度有很多，这是其中之一。公司和员工有共同的目标这一点很重要。为此，我们也实行了利润分成制度。所以说，自由休假制度是能够大大增加员工对公司投入度和归属感的众多制度之一。
你们公司实行的是不是从早到晚的坐班制？有项目的时候会加班。但如果你经营的是一家工厂，生产机械产品，比如汽车，那么你觉得自由休假制度还会适用吗？
这个问题不好回答，因为我没有这方面的经历。但我确实觉得现在的服务业从业者工作时间过长，经常熬夜加班。周末客户联系我们的话也要加班。客户经常会在晚上或某段时间随时联系我们，这个情况下我们就得做出回应。我们选择去处理这些事情。
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