富有成效(富有成效的英语)真没想到

我们再也不用回办公室了——至少不用一周去五天了。无论他们是在制造商、酒店、医疗保健还是办公室工作，他们所关注的是我们如何定义企业内的生产力。

 

Why going into work five days a week is a thing of the past

We’re never going back to the office – at least not five days a week.我们再也不用回办公室了——至少不用一周去五天了That’s the contention of Anne Helen Petersen, the author of “Out of Office: Unlocking the Power and Potential of Hybrid Work.”。

这是Anne Helen Petersen的观点，她是《走出办公室：释放混合工作的力量和潜力》一书的作者contention：英 [kənˈtenʃn] 美 [kənˈtenʃn] 争吵;争论;看法;观点。

“You can either try to figure out flex arrangements now or you can battle your employees for the next 5 to 10 years and then pay a consultant a lot of money to help you figure out what you should have started figuring out five to 10 years ago,” she told me in the latest episode of my podcast “Downside Up.”

她在最近一期的播客《Downside Up》中告诉我：“你要么现在就想办法做出弹性的安排，要么在未来的5到10年里与你的员工战斗，然后付给顾问一大笔钱，然后顾问帮你指出应该在5到10年前就开始施行弹性安排。

”Petersen believes that the Covid-19 pandemic fundamentally reoriented our relationship with work in ways that companies are only now starting to grasp in full.

Petersen认为，新冠肺炎疫情从根本上改变了我们与工作的关系，而公司现在才开始完全掌握这一点grasp：英 [ɡrɑːsp] 美 [ɡræsp] 领会;紧抓;紧握;控制Though it feels like the five-day, 40-hour work week has always been with us, it’s actually a relatively new invention.。

虽然感觉每周工作五天、40小时的工作制一直伴随着我们，但实际上这是一项相对更新的发明Even into the 20th century, for example, it was considered normal to work on Saturdays – in addition to the usual five days a week. (The Massachusetts Bay Colony had a 10-hour minimum work day!)。

举例来说，即使到了20世纪，除了通常的每周五天之外，有时候周六上班也被认为是正常的（马萨诸塞湾殖民地曾经每天最少工作10小时！）As far back as 1866, Congress considered mandating a 40-hour work week, but the legislation stalled. In 1926, Henry Ford instituted a 40-hour work week for his employees, believing that was the optimal amount of time for someone to work in a week. Congress eventually mandated that employers pay workers overtime if they put in more than 44 hours a week in 1938. The law was amended in 1940, reducing the work week to a 40-hour maximum.。

早在1866年，国会就曾考虑强制每周工作40小时，但这项立法被搁置了1926年，Henry Ford为员工规定了每周40小时的工作时间，他认为这是一周时间内员工劳作的最佳时间国会最终在1938年规定，如果工人每周工作时间超过44小时，雇主应向他们支付加班费。

该法律于1940年修订，将每周工作时间限制在40小时以内①mandate：英 [ˈmændeɪt] 美 [ˈmændeɪt] 授权;强制执行②stall：英 [stɔːl] 美 [stɔːl] (使)熄火，抛锚

③institute：英 [ˈɪnstɪtjuːt] 美 [ˈɪnstɪtuːt] 研究所;(教育、专业等)机构;建立，制定But the 40-hour work week was – and is – routinely violated by salaried employees (and their bosses) who believe that working more is working better. “Oftentimes, working those incredibly long hours is a sign of dedication, devotion … a sign that you should be promoted,” said Petersen. “As much as people talk about the sanctity of the 40-hour work week, they don’t talk about the fact that we’ve already violated it.”

但是每周40小时的工作时间，不论是过去还是现在，经常被那些认为工作越多越好的工薪员工（以及他们的老板）违反Petersen说：“通常，长时间工作是一种奉献、一种全身投入……一种你应该被晋升的标志当人们谈论每周40小时工作的神圣性时，他们却没有谈论我们已经违法的事实。

”①dedication：英 [ˌdedɪˈkeɪʃn] 美 [ˌdedɪˈkeɪʃn] 献身;奉献②devotion：英 [dɪˈvəʊʃn] 美 [dɪˈvoʊʃn] 挚爱;关爱;关照;奉献;忠诚③sanctity：

英 [ˈsæŋktəti] 美 [ˈsæŋktəti] 神圣不可侵犯;神圣性;圣洁性The pandemic – in which bosses forced their employees to stay at home for fear of spreading the virus – has, according to Petersen and other experts on work, fundamentally altered the way we think about the office and the workweek more generally.

Petersen和其他工作专家表示，这场大流行病让老板们因为担心病毒传播而强迫员工呆在家里，这从根本上改变了我们对办公室和工作周的看法“If you think about it, your contract with your employee is not just buying time,” Charlotte Lockhart, an advocate for a four-day work week, told me. “You’re buying them doing something with that time – a productive outcome. It doesn’t matter whether they’re a manufacturer, in hospitality, work in health care or work in an office, what they’re looking at is how do we define productivity within our business.”。

Charlotte Lockhart是一位每周工作四天的倡导者，她说：“如果你思考一下，你和员工的合同不只是为了争取时间你购买的是让他们在一些时间内做一些事情——一个富有成效的结果无论他们是在制造商、酒店、医疗保健还是办公室工作，他们所关注的是我们如何定义企业内的生产力。

”In other words: Work smarter, not harder.换言之：更聪明的工作，不是更努力地工作翻译：老戴编辑：老张全网搜索：老戴讲英语感谢各位的阅读，欢迎大家留言、点赞和转发，让我们一起加油(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧。