Desk Job Makeover
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Desk Job Makeover
www.anglophonie.fr page 1/2 Desk Job Makeover (MSNBC, 2012) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#47130236 And helping people to become more fit is becoming a growing movement in this country to get office workers up from their desks. NBC’s Anne Thompson with that story tonight. Working here, Pat Tarentino is going nowhere in her job. To the encouragement and delight of her employer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Now we look at this, it’s, it’s… we’re walking the talk. The effort Jason Robart leads here is part of a growing trend to get America’s cubicle-bound workforce out of their chairs and moving. There are six walk stations at Blue Cross’s three Boston area locations. Workers sign up for one-hour shifts on the treadmills. At no more than two miles per hour, Pat and her colleagues could work on computers and phones. I wanted to check in on our project. -See, I would think this would be distracting! -No. -No? It helps focus your mind? -It helps focus. It gives.. sometimes, if you’re just reading e-mails, you know, the clock’s kinda ticking in your head and you come up with ideas, of a solution that you were working at your desk. The results Blue Cross says are more productive, engaged and active workers. We are seeing people walking up and down the stairwells and not taking the elevator, much more so than they have in the past. The only requirement, proper footwear. And for those of you wondering, is this really necessary, consider this: in 1960 almost half of all American jobs required some kind of moderate physical activity. Today, less than twenty percent do. Frightened by studies linking prolonged sitting at work with higher obesity and cancer rates, twenty-sixyear-old Amanda Johnson is standing at her desk, and getting her Trip Advisor colleagues to do the same. It keeps you awake, it’s a lot easier to walk around and talk to my colleagues, and I just think that… you know it makes me be a better worker. More than ten percent of her fellow workers are on their feet in their cubicles. Increasingly, meetings are held standing, they are shorter and participants are no longer distracted by Smart phones or Blackberries. People stopped bringing their devices with them, ‘cause they knew they weren’t gonna be able to use it anymore. Standing or walking, American workers try to improve their fitness and focus. Anne Thompson, NBC News, Boston. Vocabulary 1. 2. 3. 4. makeover more fit a growing movement to get office workers up from their desk 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. nowhere delight to walk the talk trend cubicle-bound workforce 10. sign up for one-hour shifts 11. treadmills 12. check in 13. distracting 14. it helps focus your mind 15. the clock’s kinda ticking 16. you come up 17. engaged 18. the stairwells 19. requirement 20. proper footwear 21. consider this 22. some kind of 23. linking 24. prolonged sitting at work 25. it keeps you awake 26. her fellow workers 27. increasingly 28. are held standing 29. their devices 30. ‘cause (oral) 31. weren’t gonna (oral) changement de look (“relooking”) meilleure forme tendance croissante faire les employés (sédentaires) se lever de leur bureau (= fauteuil) nulle part grande joie expression: joindre le geste à la parole tendance les employés sédentaires (‘liés’!) dans leur box s’inscrivent pour des séances d’une heure tapis de jogging me renseigner gênant, qui empêche de se concentrer cela aide votre esprit à se concentrer (= is kind of) l’horloge fait tic tac dans la tête vous arrivez à trouver impliqués cages d’escalier condition requise des chaussures adéquates prenez ceci en compte une forme ou une autre (d’activité physique) mettant en relation le fait de rester assis longtemps au travail cela vous empêche de dormir / garde éveillé collègues de plus en plus ont lieu debout leurs appareils = because = weren’t going to