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每日英語跟讀 Ep.997: About WFH - Microsoft to let employees work from home permanently 微軟將允許員工永久在家上班與小朋友學校再次關閉

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每日英語跟讀 Ep.997: About WFH - Microsoft to let employees work from home permanently

Software giant Microsoft will let employees work from home permanently if they choose to, US media reported on Friday, becoming the latest employer to expand work-from-home provisions prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

美國媒體週五報導,軟體業巨擘微軟將允許讓員工選擇永久在家工作,在武漢肺炎(新型冠狀病毒病,Covid-19)大流行疫情下,微軟成為最新擴大讓員工遠距上班的雇主。

US tech news website The Verge said most Microsoft employees are still at home as the health crisis drags on, and the company doesn’t expect to reopen its US offices until January of next year at the earliest.

美國科技新聞網站The Verge稱,在這場健康危機拖延之際,大多數微軟員工仍在家辦公,微軟預期最早明年1月才會重新開放在美國的辦公室。

But when it does, workers can choose to work from home permanently with their manager’s approval, although they will have to give up their office space.

但當它重開,員工經主管批准,可以選擇常態性在家工作,儘管他們將必須放棄他們在辦公室的空間。

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Working parents’ woes deepen as schools shut down again 學校再次關閉 在職父母的麻煩加深

Working parents of kindergarten and elementary school students are struggling again to find suitable childcare options, as all schools in the Seoul metropolitan area have been ordered to move classes online until Sept. 11.

(南韓)幼兒園和小學學生的在職父母,正再次努力尋找合適的育兒選項。因為首都圈的所有學校,均已被通令將課程改為線上,直到9月11日。

Although the measure was in response to the recent surge in the number of infections among students, teachers and other education workers, remote learning poses a burden to working parents as younger children are less likely to stay focused on lectures for a longer time.

儘管這些措施旨在因應最近在學生、教師與其他教育工作者中,感染人數激增的疫情,但遠距學習對在職父母造成負擔,因為較年幼的孩童,比較不可能長時間專注於課程。

The only option for working parents is sending their children to "emergency child care" classes, set up at schools for kindergarteners and younger elementary students who are in need of care during the day.

在職父母的唯一選項,是將他們的小孩送到「緊急托兒」班,學校的緊急托兒班是為了有日間照顧需求的幼兒園生及低年級小學生而設。

Source article: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1410043 ; https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1396438

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