第2讲 阅读理解专项练习 2023届高三英语总复习

Written by Tina 第2讲 阅读理解专项练习 阅读理解（八） 2022-2023连云港市高三上学期期中考试英语试卷 难度：★★ Maggie Perkins had been working as a teacher in Georgia for nearly five years before she decided to "quiet quit" her job. The decision didn't mean leaving her position, but rather limiting her work to her contract（合约）hours. Nothing more, nothing less. "If I didn't quiet quit my teaching job, I would burn out, " she says. Like Perkins, "quiet quitters" on TikTok defend their choice to take a step back from work, but company managers and workplace experts argue that although doing less might feel good in the short term, it could harm your career—and your company--in the long run. In the wake of the global pandemic and the Great Resignation, employees began to reimagine what work could look like. Gallup's State of the Global Workplace report in June found job dissatisfaction at an all-time high, with 60%reporting emotional detachment（分离）from work. Disengaged workers cost the global economy an estimated $7. 8 trillion in lost productivity and an economic slowdown. Now, companies have become sensitive to worker burnout. Gergo Vari, CEO of job board platform Lensa, advocates an alternative to quiet quitting: "loudly persisting”. That is, empowering employees to speak up about how their organization can serve their goals. "When you loudly persist, you have a sense of belonging to the company, " he says. Career coach Allison Peck says she views "quiet quitting"as a symptom of employees not connecting to their work or managers. Her career advice for quiet quitters is to take even braver action. "Finding a new job, team, or company that better suit you can improve your mindset at work, "she says. Some workers, though, say that companies' concerns about "quiet quitting"are unfounded. Shini Ko, a software developer, has set limits on her hours and now runs a small-scale vegetable farm in her spare time. "It's negative and dangerous that we regard a healthy work-life balance as quitting, ”says Ko. “Can w