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220505 6min english office
6 Minute English
©British Broadcasting Corporation 2022
bbclearningenglish.com
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car park. But according to a 2021 survey by the Metro newspaper, what did British
workers vote the worst thing about working in an office? Was it …
a)
printers not working?
b)
people speaking too loudly? or
c)
co-workers leaving empty milk cartons in the fridge?
Sam
Hmm, I see stealing pens isn’t on the list, so I’ll say a) printers not working. That
really makes me mad!
Neil
OK, Sam. I’ll reveal the correct answer later in the programme. Nowadays most
modern offices are open-plan, large spaces without internal walls dividing them
up. The idea is to create a sense of togetherness, but many employees prefer
having their own space, and use all types of objects to mark out their own personal
territory. These could be anything from family photos and holiday souvenirs, to
home-made cakes and biscuits placed at the end of a desk to allow people grab a
biscuit and start a conversation.
Sam
Researcher, Harriet Shortt, travelled around Britain interviewing office workers
about the types of objects they use to decorate and mark out their workspace.
Here she is telling BBC Radio 4 programme, Thinking Allowed, about one young
woman who stuck photos and postcards onto strips of cardboard:
Harriet Shortt
She had created this sort of
montage
on this strip of paper and would roll it up
daily – she had a little plant as well – and she would take it to whatever desk she
was working at and would pin it up to a set of low-level desk divider… and so
there’s that sense of, however temporarily they might be in a particular space in
the office, they still … there’s still evidence in this research that people want to
feel comfort, and settled and have some
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