遠距工作後遺症⋯⋯辦公室文化將消失？

For Some, Remote Work Has Become a 'Nightmare' 

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Tired of working remotely? Your employer might feel the same.  After an initial burst of work-at-home productivity amid the coronavirus pandemic, "cracks are starting to emerge.”

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Projects drag on; it's harder to hire, train, and integrate new people; some workers seem less engaged, and younger ones develop more slowly. "There's sort of an emerging sense behind the scenes of executives saying, 'This is not going to be sustainable,'" says Laszlo Bock, human resources chief at the startup Humu. 

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Remote work was great at first, he says, but "it was people being terrified of losing their jobs, and that fear-driven productivity is not sustainable." Take San Francisco startup Chef Robotics, which just came in a month late on a product deadline.

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Company CEO Rajat Bhageria says a problem that normally took an hour to unpack now drags on for a day: "That's just a logistical nightmare," he adds. Some businesses are mixing at-home and in-office work to varying success, and with most office leases set for eight years or more, executives are unlikely to abandon brick-and-mortar altogether.  

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What’s more, trust and social bonds are established better in person than they are online. However, polls show that most workers don't want to return to the office full-time, which leaves company culture where?  

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”It was easier to go remote fast than most people would have ever imagined," says Andy Eichfeld, head of HR at Discover Financial Services. "That doesn't mean it's great."

Vocabulary 

Emerge (v) - become easy to see or notice

To drag on (v phr.) - to take more time than necessary

Engage (v) - to gain someone’s interest or attention

Brick-and-mortar (adj) - having a physical location for a store or business

Productivity (n) - the ratio between how much output and input

Integrate (v) - to make something a part of a bigger group

Burst (n) - a sudden short happening

Sustainable (adj) - able to be kept at a certain level

導讀人：Riley Bilgo

擅於教授語言學相關知識，教學強項包括簡報、面試準備、聽力和寫作。

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