おはようございます。KANOです。本日はこちらの記事から。
CNBCの記事って難しいけどFTほどではないし、全体的にTOEICに出てきそうな文章なので好き。
-wide
意味 [[形][副]を作って]…中に [で], いたるところに [で], 全体にわたる [わたって] （地域や分野を表す[名]に付く）
Earlier this week during a companywide mental health day off of work, Julie Steele, 34, set up a lunch date with her mom and two grandmothers, who are both in their 90s, at a restaurant in Dallas.
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「companywide」で「全社的な」な感じかな。
expedite
意味 …を早める, 促進する (speed up).
By May, Twitter’s permanent remote-work policy “expedited that timeline,” Steele says, “and before you know it, we’re driving across the country looking at homes.”
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pitch
意味 [C] (くだけて) 売り込み, 宣伝
She made the official pitch to her manager in the fall and physically moved in June 2021.
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secure
意味 (かたく) （努力の末に）〈物〉を獲得する, 手に入れる, 確保する; 〈事〉を実現する, 達成する
In March, she secured a job as a podcast relationship manager and took her work on her travels, including to Glacier National Park and Bend, Oregon.
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動詞用法あるんだな。
Shilling says setting her own hours and working from home has been beneficial to her health — she attends regular physical therapy for her knee and can hop on her exercise bike or walk her dog throughout the day.
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そうよね。在宅勤務は心身ともにほんと楽。この方みたいに仕事内容も楽しければベストだけどねぇ。
“I have the same amount of work, but the space in between gives me time to give my daughter a hug, close my eyes outside, grab a healthy snack I made rather than get something from the café. I feel like my whole life has been upgraded by working from home.”
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分かるなあ。30分ごとに軽くストレッチして香水でリフレッシュ…ってオフィスでできないもん。もう出社無理。
groove
意味 (俗) 楽しい [すてきな] 時間 [経験]; 適所.
After getting into the groove of virtual schooling for her son, Sitdykova realized she had nearly four hours back to herself every day.
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4時間、わかる！通勤時間とその付随時間とオフィスの無駄時間分がちょうどそれくらいだ。朝晩の英語学習や踏み台昇降時間が確保できて幸せです。
metrics
意味 （事業· 学校· パソコンソフトなどの） 評価 [測定] 基準.
On the weekends, she learned to program and built a website to help people, perhaps newly able to relocate and work remotely, find a new city to call home based on 100 metrics across personal preferences and work-life needs.
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