Unit 3 Careers and skills单元引入&课文译文（课件）-【优化探究】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第四册同步导学案（牛津译林版2020）

下页 上页 译林英语选择性必修第四册 思维激活 新课导入 下页 上页 译林英语选择性必修第四册 工作与生活的平衡已经不仅仅是一个吸引人的概念。越来越多的公司想要他们的员工拥有更平衡的生活方式，因为平衡、快乐的员工工作起来才会更有效率、更有动力。 下页 上页 译林英语选择性必修第四册 Work­life Balance Today's working world poses many challenges to employees.While some careers allow a relaxed relationship between work and private life, many others demand significant reductions in the area of leisure and family.According to Statistics, the United States ranks 30th amongst countries with the best work­life balance.This is mostly because a large portion of Americans works overtime on a regular basis. 下页 上页 译林英语选择性必修第四册 With this in mind, employers are becoming more aware of the growing expectations of their workforce in terms of the work­life balance.Companies are now considering how to achieve a work­life balance and implementing targeted measures to promote this.The goal is not only to make employees more productive, but also happier and more balanced. 下页 上页 译林英语选择性必修第四册 The work­life balance definition sets out to achieve an ideal balance between a person's working life and private life.It is a concept in which the maximum happiness of an employee acts as the fuel for productive and fulfilling work, for which both employer and employee are responsible. 下页 上页 译林英语选择性必修第四册 The general dissatisfaction of employees worldwide signifies how far from achieving a work­life balance we really are.However, the working world is slowly changing as more and more companies are beginning to welcome the idea and are also specifically promoting it. 下页 上页 译林英语选择性必修第四册 What we know for certain is that all sides benefit from a work­life balance.Our performance­oriented society all too often disregards the importance of the “happy employee” principle, which still causes confusion and skepticism in some levels of management.This is due to competition and the fact that every important link in the chain must function in order to remain competitive—especially in terms of the so­called shortage of skilled workers and demographic de