1月も半ばになりましたが、謹賀新年です。
本年も本メルマガをよろしくご愛読ください。
正月ボケから立ち直れず発行が遅れてしまいました。
今日のビニエットは、会社でSNSを閲覧できる権利を
勝ち取ったという話です。
私もちょうど昨日会社で情報セキュリティのEラーニングを
受けたばかりです。
弊社ではSNSなど業務に関係のないWEBサイトへのアクセス
は禁止されていますし、一般にWEBアクセスはすべてログが
取られているので、私用でインターネットを使うことは
できません。アメリカでは進んでいるところもあるのですね。
そんな事例がいちはやく教材になっていとはさすがビジ英。
本年も本メルマガをよろしくご愛読ください。
正月ボケから立ち直れず発行が遅れてしまいました。
今日のビニエットは、会社でSNSを閲覧できる権利を
勝ち取ったという話です。
私もちょうど昨日会社で情報セキュリティのEラーニングを
受けたばかりです。
弊社ではSNSなど業務に関係のないWEBサイトへのアクセス
は禁止されていますし、一般にWEBアクセスはすべてログが
取られているので、私用でインターネットを使うことは
できません。アメリカでは進んでいるところもあるのですね。
そんな事例がいちはやく教材になっていとはさすがビジ英。
■NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Online Privacy (1) 1/7 2009
■意味を考えてみよう。今日取り上げる単語が含まれています。
I see that the company has yielded to workforce backlash
and started giving employees free and unmonitored access
to popular social networking sites during lunchtime and
other approved breaks during the day.
I wasn't surprised that companies are pulling the plug.
Time wasting and procrastination have become a critical
issue for managers in all sorts of business ventures.
It's ironic to note, though, that while the computer's
great productivity enhancer, it's also a huge source
of inefficiency.
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yield to, ...に屈する、...に負ける、...に譲歩する
──────────────────────────────
= give in
If you yield to someone or something, you stop resisting them.
[FORMAL]
ex) I yielded to an impulse.
──────────────────────────────
workforce backlash, 従業員の反発
──────────────────────────────
A backlash against a tendency or recent development in
society or politics, is a sudden, strong reaction against it.
ex) a right-wing backlash
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pull the plug, やめにする、突然中止する
──────────────────────────────
If someone with power pulls the plug on a project or activity,
they stop supporting it, so that the project or activity
fails and has to stop. You usually use this expression
to talk about financial support being withdrawn.
ex) Theoretically, the banks have the power to pull the plug
on the project if they do not like the companies' sums.
──────────────────────────────
procrastination, ぐずぐずすること、遅延
──────────────────────────────
If you procrastinate, you keep leaving things you should do
until later, often because you do not want to do them. [FORMAL]
ex) He hates delay and procrastination in all its forms.
──────────────────────────────
productivity enhancer, 生産性を高めるもの
──────────────────────────────
An enhancer is a substance or a device which makes a
particular thing look, taste, or fell better.
ex) Cinnamon is an excellent flavour enhancer.
■意味を考えてみよう。今日取り上げる単語が含まれています。
I see that the company has yielded to workforce backlash
and started giving employees free and unmonitored access
to popular social networking sites during lunchtime and
other approved breaks during the day.
I wasn't surprised that companies are pulling the plug.
Time wasting and procrastination have become a critical
issue for managers in all sorts of business ventures.
It's ironic to note, though, that while the computer's
great productivity enhancer, it's also a huge source
of inefficiency.
──────────────────────────────
yield to, ...に屈する、...に負ける、...に譲歩する
──────────────────────────────
= give in
If you yield to someone or something, you stop resisting them.
[FORMAL]
ex) I yielded to an impulse.
──────────────────────────────
workforce backlash, 従業員の反発
──────────────────────────────
A backlash against a tendency or recent development in
society or politics, is a sudden, strong reaction against it.
ex) a right-wing backlash
──────────────────────────────
pull the plug, やめにする、突然中止する
──────────────────────────────
If someone with power pulls the plug on a project or activity,
they stop supporting it, so that the project or activity
fails and has to stop. You usually use this expression
to talk about financial support being withdrawn.
ex) Theoretically, the banks have the power to pull the plug
on the project if they do not like the companies' sums.
──────────────────────────────
procrastination, ぐずぐずすること、遅延
──────────────────────────────
If you procrastinate, you keep leaving things you should do
until later, often because you do not want to do them. [FORMAL]
ex) He hates delay and procrastination in all its forms.
──────────────────────────────
productivity enhancer, 生産性を高めるもの
──────────────────────────────
An enhancer is a substance or a device which makes a
particular thing look, taste, or fell better.
ex) Cinnamon is an excellent flavour enhancer.
