Digital technology - email and smart phones especially - have vastly improved workers' ability to be productive outside of a traditional office. Even so, most white-collar work still happens in an office. 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. Half of the workers say their boss doesn't accept it and only 35 percent say it’s tolerated.
数字科技——尤其是电子邮件和智能手机——极大地提高了员工在传统办公室之外的生产能力。即便如此，大多数白领工作仍旧是在办公室里进行。根据Wakefield Research为IT公司Citrix进行的一项办公室员工调查显示，其中一个原因是，大多数老板对远程工作持怀疑态度。一半的员工表示老板不接受，只有35%的员工表示老板可以容忍。
Skeptical bosses will likely have their doubts reinforced by the same survey, which shows that 43 percent of workers say they’ve watched TV or a movie while “working” remotely, while 35 percent have done housework，and 28 percent have cooked dinner.
这份调查还显示持怀疑态度的老板可能会更怀疑，43%的员工表示他们在远程“工作”时看过电视或电影，35%做过家务，28%做过饭。
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. It’s much faster, for example, to shop for groceries at a quarter to three than to stand in line during the after-work rush.
这是真的，然而在家工作会让人们更高效，因为它可以让员工在完成工作的同时承担烦人的家务。例如，在三点差一刻买日常用品比在下班高峰期排队要快得多。
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.
这种做法仍然不被官方接受，反映出我们作为一个社会，距离我们期望每个全职员工都可以成为全职家庭成员的日子还有多远。
More broadly the Wakefield survey suggests that employers may be missing a low-cost way to give workers something of value. Sixty-four percent of those survey participants who haven’t worked remotely would rather give up some bonus in order to get even one day a week working from home. Under such circumstances, smart firms need to find ways to let their employees have enough flexibility to manage their time efficiently.
更广泛地说，Wakefield 调查表明，雇主可能缺少一种低成本的方式来给员工一些有价值的东西。在那些没有远程工作的调查参与者中，64%的人宁愿放弃一些奖金，以便每周有一天在家工作。在这种情况下，聪明的公司需要想办法让员工有足够的灵活性来有效地管理时间。
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