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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：新时代企业办公室之争 GRE阅读文章：GRE阅读练习：新时代企业办公室之争 GRE考试精品课程训练  “PROJECT gold” and “Project Nexus” sound like plans for bank heists or military assaults. In reality, they are the names for KPMGs ongoing attempt to squeeze its 6,700Londonemployees into ever smaller spaces. Since 2006 the professional-services firm has reduced the number of offices it uses in London from seven to two. By the spring of 2015 everybody will be crammed into one building in Canary Wharf.  “金牌项目”和“联通项目”听上去像是抢银行或军事打击的计划。事实上，这是毕马威公司计划中的项目名称，他们打算缩小全伦敦近6700名员工的工作空间。自2006年起，这家专业咨询公司-毕马威就把开设在伦敦的7家事务所减少到了2家。而到2015年春，所有员工都只能挤在伦敦金融区的一栋大楼里办公。  According to data from the British Council for Offices (BCO), an industry club, the average office tenant now uses around 11 square metres per worker, 35% less than in 1997. A new building in Ludgate Hill, in Londons financial district, will allocate just eight square metres to each employee. In many offices, rows of “hot” desks have replaced individual offices and even cubicles. “Nowadays its almost frowned on to have your own office,” claims Nick Wentworth Stanley, of i2 Offices, a big serviced property firm.  英国办公室协会是一家工业俱乐部，该协会的数据表明，现如今，普通写字楼的承租户分配给每名职员约11平方米，与1997年相比少了35%。在伦敦的金融区路德门山街，有一栋新落成的大楼，楼中每名雇员仅能分到约8平方米。在许多写字楼中，独立办公室甚至是小隔间代替了连排的公用办公桌。一家大型产权服务公司i2Offices的尼克·温特沃斯·斯坦利说“如今很难拥有自己的办公室了”  Firms have long known that only about half of all desks are in use at any moment, as employees work odd hours or disappear to meetings, but it was difficult to fill the spares. Better IT systems now mean that people need not be tied to a particular desk. They need not even be in the office at all: as cloud computing and virtual offices take off, more people are working from home or from other places, further reducing the need for desks.  许多公司很早就知道，由于雇员要倒班或者去开会，大约只有一半的办公桌一直处于使用状态，但是很难填补那些办公桌闲置的空当。更优化的信息系统意味着员工不必拘泥于某个特定的桌子。他们甚至都不必在办公室里：随着云计算与虚拟办公室的兴起，越来越多的人居家办公，或者在其他地方办公，这更加缩小了办公桌的用武之地。  Aside