Professional Reading

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 395.

Discussion

1. What do you think is meant by “work-life balance” in the article given above?

2. In what way has attitude to work changed in the past decades?

3. What does the term “flexible working” imply?

4. Why do many companies have to switch over to flexible shifts?

5. Why do you think younger people are skeptical about lifetime employment with a single company?

6. In what ways do terms of employment differ in America and Europe?

7. What are the disadvantages of flexible working?

8. Do you think graduates of India's and China's universities will ever solve the problem of human resources shortage in knowledge-based industries in the West?

9. Suppose you are an employer. How would you attract young talented people to your firm?

20. Read the following article very carefully. You must achieve complete understanding of the text, so use a dictionary by all means. While reading find the following words and word combinations in the text and learn their meaning. Use them in the further discussion of the problem.

A workplace, to find smth to be unlawful, the court ruled that …, to receive back pay, (the country) at large, under a court ruling, an illegal alien, social assistance, to receive a refund for overpayment, a retirement benefit, the law covers (smb), to enforce a law, to do smth through a criminal fraud, Chief Justice, to undermine a law, a non-citizen.