Name: Will office life ever be the same again? | BBC Ideas
Uploaded: 2020-09-01T19:10:13.000Z
Duration: 3 min 5 s

as something of a tipping point in the world of work.

情態副詞

Largely, workers proved to their employers

that they could get their jobs done from home.

他們可以在家裡完成他們的工作。

So what does the future hold for the office?

那麼，辦公室的未來會怎樣呢？

80% of people who worked from home during the lockdown

say they'd like to continue working at least one day from home

說他們希望繼續至少有一天在家工作。

say that we're longing to return to the office in some form.

說我們渴望以某種形式回到辦公室。

In other words, we want to have our cake and eat it.

換句話說，我們想吃我們的蛋糕。

我們要的是辦公室裡最好的部分

The workplace property expert Antony Slumbers

說，沒有一家公司想要一個辦公室。

and the office was just one way to create that.

而辦公室只是創造這種方式的一種。

many companies had moved to open-plan offices.

許多公司都搬到了開放式辦公室。

Well the promise was that we would be let loose

free to meet and bounce ideas off each other.

In fact, open-plan offices tended to make us feel

事實上，開放式辦公室往往會讓我們感覺到

We've realised offices are good for some things.

我們已經意識到辦公室對某些事情是有好處的。

The office had something called 'a network effect'.

辦公室有一種叫做'網絡效應'的東西。

bumping into colleagues and sharing thoughts just casually,

碰到同事，隨便分享一下想法。

that we're finding so difficult to replace.

And there seems to be some pretty good evidence

that our best 'aha' moments happen in these chance encounters.

我們最好的 "啊哈 "時刻就發生在這些偶然的相遇中。

Professor Sandy Pentland from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

麻省理工學院的Sandy Pentland教授。

says the reason why these conversations are so effective

說，這些對話之所以如此有效，是因為

is that these are the moments that we don't find ourselves

是這些時刻，我們沒有發現自己。

我們可以自由地進行誠實的討論。

So if the office was good for a few things

所以，如果辦公室有幾件事是好的。

and the top one - chatting to colleagues -

和最上面的一個--和同事哈拉--。

Maybe your firm will join something that's starting to be called

也許你的公司會加入一些開始被稱為...的東西。

where workers work from the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays

週二、週三和週四，工人在辦公室工作。

And no doubt, in time, someone will come with a catchy name

毫無疑問，到時候會有人起一個好聽的名字的

Other firms are being still more adventurous,

saying they want to free up workers to do their work

每當他們覺得最有成效的時候。

They're adopting what's being known as asynchronous working.

他們採用的是被稱為異步工作的方式。

When we do something synchronously it means we're coordinated in time,

當我們同步做一件事的時候，就意味著我們在時間上的協調。

就像奧運會上的游泳運動員一樣。

'how about we allow people to give their feedback or their ideas

"我們允許人們提供他們的反饋或想法，怎麼樣?

每當他們感到最有靈感的時候，'?

say it allows workers the flexibility to take their kids to school

說它允許工人靈活地送孩子上學

and this is what the asynchronous working firms believe

will attract the best workers to come to work for them.

會吸引最優秀的工人來為他們工作。

Expect to hear a lot more of the word 'hybrid'.

some firms are even talking about only getting their employees together

有些公司甚至說只把員工聚在一起

Meaning that, almost certainly, they don't need an office.

也就是說，幾乎可以肯定，他們不需要辦公室。

...for many office workers, the era of getting up every day

......對於很多上班族來說，每天起床的時代已經過去了。

and going to the same place seems to be a thing of the past.

和去同一個地方似乎是過去的事情。

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