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Exercise 2. c) Telecommuting is changing the way employees and employers think about work. Exercise 5. Answer the question and give your own ideas.
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Exercise 2.
1. What is the main idea of this text?
a) Telework is a non-traditional way to work that has advantages and disadvantages.
b) Since it first started telework has seen many changes, especially in the area of technology.
c) Telecommuting is changing the way employees and employers think about work.
2. In what order are these ideas presented in the text?
a) History of telework, advantages, disadvantages, the future of telework
b) A normal work day, advantages, history of telework, the future of telework
c) Advantages, disadvantages, history of telework.
3. What helped make telecommuting popular? a) Workers could get higher salaries telecommuting.
b) Improvements in networking technologies.
c) Increasing traffic problems around the world.
4. Why is telecommuting good for companies.
a) Managers have less work to do because workers are not in the office.
b) Telecommuters complain less because they are in the office less frequently.
c) They can save money and have happier employees.
5. What is the main idea of paragraph D?
a) Telecommuting can cause problems for workers and companies.
b) Telecommuters don't get promoted as often as office workers.
c) People need to be careful when telecommuting because they might not like it.
6. What does the author think about the future of telecommuting.
a) It will continue to grow and develop.
b) It hurts economies and will become less popular.
c) No one knows what the future of telecommuting will be.
Exercise 3. True, False or Not Given?
1. Most workers telecommute.
2. Telecommuters spend their working hours in an office.
3. Telecommuting can benefit both workers and companies.
4. Telecommuting has benefits for families.
5. Telecommuters have more of a chance of getting promoted than regular employees.
Exercise 4.
1. The word their in this text refers to:
a) employers
b) companies
c) individuals
2. The word it in this text refers to:
a) communicate
b) telework
c) the future
3. Which word means one person?
a) employee
b) individual
c) company
4. Which word means problem, disadvantage, or negative effect?
a) promotion
b) reducing
c) drawback
Exercise 5. Answer the question and give your own ideas.
1. What does a regular work day mean for most people?
2. What does word telecommuting include?
3. When did the modern idea of Telecommuting start and what was the reason?
4. Why do both companies and individuals benefit from telework?
5. What are the drawbacks of such kind of work?
6. How can telework damage a person's career?
7. Will telework play great role in a future life of our society?
8. Do you know anybody telecommuting?
9. Do you have an experience of telework?
10. Would you like to be involved in such sphere of job? Why?
TEXT 3
Exercise 1. Read the text:
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UNFRIENDING YOUR COLLEAGUES ON FACEBOOK RULLED BULLING
Unfriending an employee ruled as part of 'bullying' behaviour by Employee Tribunal.
1 Unfriending an employee on Facebook can in some cases be workplace bullying, an Australian Tribunal has found.
2 The ruling came after Rachael Roberts, an estate agent in Launceston, Tasmania, complained to Australia's the Fair Work Commission that her colleague Lisa Bird was bullying her, leaving her with anxiety and depression. She made 18 allegations of bullying in total.
3 Ms Rachel said that following an argument about a sale loss, her properties were no longer displayed in the window, photocopies were distributed to colleagues but not her, and she was no longer greeted in the morning.
4 When she approached Mr Bird, the head of the agency and Mrs Bird's husband, about the issues his wife reportedly called her into a meeting and said she was a " naughty little schoolgirl running to the teacher".
5 After this exchange in January 2015, Ms Roberts found that Mrs Bird had unfriended her on Facebook. She was then signed off work by a psychologist, Sky News reports.
6 In a workplace bullying incident, the Fair Work Commission must find evidence of " repeated incidents of unreasonable behaviour", of which unfriending Ms Roberts on Facebook was counted as one. Nine other allegations were upheld by the tribunal.
7 The deputy president of the commission, Nicole Wells, said in her decision that the unfriending showed " a lack of emotional maturity" on Mrs Bird's part that had made Ms Roberts unwell.
8 But employment lawyer Josh Bornstein told ABC news the unfriending incident was found to be workplace bullying in the context of several other issues.
9 " What the Fair Work Commission did find is that a pattern of unreasonable behavior, hostile behavior, belittling behavior over about a two-year period, which featured a range of different behaviors including berating, excluding and so on, constituted workplace bullying, " he said.
10 Under the Fair Work Act, the tribunal can order the employer and employee to hold a meeting about anti-bullying orders, but cannot impose compensation.
Adapted from The Independent, 25 September 2015, by Jess Staufenberg
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