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worker

英 ['wɜːkə] 美['wɝkɚ]

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n. 工人；劳动者；职蚁
n. (Worker)人名；(英)沃克

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A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.

Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

After a point, countries can become so dangerous that food relief workers are no longer safe and their programs are halted.

The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

Werbach gives the example of several Disneyland hotels in Anaheim, California, which used large digital leaderboards to display how efficiently laundry workers were working compared to one another.

To enhance morale, one company asks its employees to identify their fellow workers when starting their computers.

For workers, especially low-paid workers, who desperately need their jobs yet know they can be easily replaced, gamification may feel more like the Hunger Games.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

Emergency workers have made contact with the miners via a radio.

Details about what led to the workers’ being trapped in the elevator weren’t immediately available.

Agricultural workers in green tea fields near Mt.

The length of the workday, for many workers, is defined by time.

Performing creative jobs tends to make workers happier.

It places more emphasis on work efficiency than on workers' lives.

More than 15% of the workforce are jobless or underemployed — roughly 25 million workers.

The Big Three American carmakers—General Motors, Ford and Chrysler—accumulated ruinous costs over the post-war years, such as gold-plated health plans and pensions for workers who retired as young as

Social workers discover that the wife normally tries to take care of her husband herself for as long as she can in order not to use up their life savings.

Social workers and experts on aging offer caregivers and potential caregivers help when arranging for the care of an elderly relative

She insists that it's exposing workers to unnecessarily high doses of radiation.

In another firm the workers were constantly complaining about the malfunctioning heating system, but the owners was too busy or too mean to do anything about it

Common complaints made by office workers.

Improve the welfare of affected workers

Days after the deadly 2017 wildfires in Santa Rosa, California, a drone (无人机) caught footage (连续镜头) of a USPS worker, Trevor Smith, driving through burned homes in that familiar white van, collecting mail in an affected area.

deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesmake workers less motivated in performing dutiesrender a number of campus workers joblesslead to the privatization of campus facilitiesThe outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.

Workers' advocates have criticized Haslam's plan, saying it would mean some campus workers would lose their jobs or benefits.

The company pledged to cut 600 back-office positions, though some 150 workers in those roles would be reassigned to other jobs.

To alert American workers to the urgency for adaptation.

This isn't a battle between garment workers and greedy bosses.

There's work to be done, but workers aren't ready to do it—they're in the wrong places, or they have the wrong skills.

The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into parttime employment in almost all industries has soared.

Nationwide training of workers.

A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those unadaptable and untrained workers.

With technology everywhere in our life, it has become virtually impossible for most workers to keep a balance between work and life.

These less- stressed workers gained an average of 62 minutes per week of productivity.

The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.

Seven in 10 workers say they struggle to maintain work-life balance.

Science has shown a clear correlation between high stress levels in workers and absenteeism ( ' , 旷工 ), reduced productivity, disengagement and high turnover.

It's not only unsustainable for workers, but also for the companies that employ them.

In a competitive work environment, employers are able to use technology to demand more from their employees rather than motivating workers with flexibility that benefits them.

But that isn't why the government—under pressure from cancer charities, health workers and the Labour party—has agreed to legislate for standardised packaging.

83% of workers say they're stressed about their jobs, nearly 50% say work-related stress is interfering with their sleep, and 60% use their smartphones to check in with work outside of normal working hours.

Wherever needed, social workers come to help.

We hope you enjoy the series about how you can make a difference by becoming a social worker.

Today we are going to be talking about becoming a social worker.

Throughout these series, you will learn more about the profession, the necessary steps to get a social work degree, the rich history of social work and many ways that social workers help others.

There are more than 600,000 professional social workers in the country, and we all either have a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree or a Ph D in social work.

There are more clinically trained social workers than clinically trained psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric nurses combined.

The National Association of Social Workers represents nearly 145,000 social workers across the country.

Stacy is going to walk you through the step-by-step process of becoming a social worker and Mill will tell you about the range of options you have once you get your social work degree, as well as the high standards of responsibility the social workers must adhere to.

Later in these series, you will hear from Stacy Collins and Mill Wilson, fellow social workers at the National Association of Social Workers.

I’m a social worker, a lobbyist and a special assistant to the executive director at the National Association of Social Workers.

In thousands of ways, social workers help other people—people from every age, every background across the country.

One needs the designers, and perhaps the regulators, before the builders and operators, and each group of workers in training has to know there is work waiting beyond graduation.

And not only do our prospective new energy workers have to be trained, they have to be trained in the right sequence.

Here is the most malignant threat to our personal freedom, particularly as the balance of power in the workplace has been shifted so dramatically from worker to boss.

If you want something to be done, then their staff do not have so much incentive to help you because he's a worker for the government.

I'm a social worker, a lobbyist and a special assistant to the executive director at the National Association of Social Workers.

Stacy is going to walk you through the step-by-step process of becoming a social worker and mill will tell you about the range of options you have once you get your social work degree, as well as the high standards of responsibility the social workers mus

A rescue worker risked his life saving two tourists who have been trapped in the mountains for two days.

Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to citizenship.

Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank.

As one group of workers carried out the rubbish, another group began removing seats and other theater equipment in preparation for the building's end.

At least, workers wouldn't have needed to carry cattle fat or water to smooth the paths.

But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees.

Digital technology—email and smart phones especially—have vastly improved workers' ability to be productive outside of a traditional office.

Half of the workers say their boss doesn't accept it, and only 35 percent say it's tolerated.

He asked the workers to use traditional techniques to make the bricks into walls, roofs and corridors.

It is true, however, that working at home makes people much more efficient, because it allows workers to take care of annoying housework while still getting their jobs done.

Learn how to deal with people now, because when you're an adult, you don't get to choose your boss or your co-workers, so learn how to respect them now.

Many scientists suspect workers first would have put the blocks on sleds.

More broadly the Wakefield survey suggests that employers may be missing a low-cost way to give workers something of value.

Motorheads have greater ability than office workers.

Much time spent sitting at a desk, office workers are generally troubled by health problems.

Neighbors and co-workers trust their car repair to him.

One reason is that, according to findings of a new survey of office workers conducted by wakefield research for the it company citrix, most bosses are doubtful about remote working.

One solution is obviously to import foreign workers via immigration.

Skilled workers also combine various hardwoods and metal to create special designs.

Such is their devotion to the common good of the colony that not only soldier ants but also worker ants will sacrifice their lives to help defeat an enemy.

The camps have excellent horses, professional guides and lots of support workers.

The fact that such practices remain officially unaccepted reflects how far we haven't come as a society from the days when we expected every full-time worker to be supported by a full-time homemaker.

The most popular view is that egyptian workers slid the blocks along smooth paths.

The study found that 7% of workers had already downshifted.

The workers were not better organized, otherwise they would have accomplished the task in half the time.

They fear losing control of their workers.

They motivate workers, and they make an impression on people who visit and might be potential, or prospective, customers.

To guarantee its economic growth, China needs to deal with the population issue properly, as its workers are getting.

To make the work easier, workers may have lubricated the paths either with wet clay or with the fat from cattle.

workers received on the job.

The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.

More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry’s work.

When Hoffa’s Teamsters were in their prime in 1960, only one in ten American government workers belonged to a union; now 36% do.

The only American public-sector workers who earn well above $250,000 a year are university sports coaches and the president of the United States.

In Britain, more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionized.

A quarter of America’s public-sector workers have a university degree.

Optimists point out that technological upheaval has benefited workers in the past.

Likewise,automation should eventually boost productivity, stimulate demand by driving down prices, and free workers from hard, boring work.

But policies to help workers adapt will be indispensable.

But in the medium term,middle-class workers may need a lot of help adjusting.

One survey found that bureaucratic delays led the average H-2A worker to arrive on the job 22 days late.

When the recovery began, worker shortages first appeared in the high-skilled trades.

You meet new people every day: the grocery worker, the cab driver, new people at work or the security guard at the door.