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Improving the balance between the working part of the day and the rest of it is a goal of a growing number of workers in rich We

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问题     Improving the balance between the working part of the day and the rest of it is a goal of a growing number of workers in rich Western countries. Some are turning away from the ideals of their parents, for whom work always came first; others with scarce skills are demanding more because they know they can get it. Employers, caught between a falling population of workers and tight controls on immigration, are eager to identify extra perks that will lure more "talent" their way. Just now they are focusing on benefits(especially flexible working)that offer employees more than just pay.
    Some companies saw the change of mood some time ago. IBM has more than 50 different programmes promoting work-life balance and Bank of America over 30. But plenty of other firms remain unconvinced and many lack the capacity to cater to such ideas even if they wanted to. Helen Murlis, with Hay Group, a human-resources consultancy, sees a widening gap between firms "at the creative end of employment" and those that are not.
    The chief component of almost all schemes to promote work-life balance is flexible working. This allows people to escape rigid nine-to-five schedules and work away from a formal office. IBM says that 40% of its employees today work off the company premises. For many businesses, flexible working is a necessity. Globalization has spread the hours in which workers need to communicate with each other and increased the call for flexible shifts.
    Nella Barkley, an American who advises companies on work-life balance, says that large firms are beginning to understand the value of such schemes, "but only slowly". For most of them, they still mean little more than child care, health care and flexible working.
    To some extent, the proliferation of work-life-balance schemes is a function of today’s labour market. Companies in knowledge-based industries worry about the shortage of skills and how they are going to persuade talented people to work for them. Although white-collar workers are more likely to be laid off nowadays, they are also likely to get rehired. Unemployment among college graduates in America is just over 2%. The same competition for scarce talent is evident in Britain.
    For some time to come, talented people in the West will demand more from employers, and clever employers will create new gewgaws to attract them to join. Those employers should note that for a growing number of these workers the most appealing gewgaw of all is the freedom to work as and when they please.
The present situation about the work-life balance problem is that
选项 A、many companies have different programmes for this problem.
B、many companies are ready to take effective solutions.
C、companies are at two extremes in solving this problem.
D、many companies are indifferent to this problem.
答案C
解析 推理判断题。根据题干关键词work-life balance定位至第二段第二句。该段第一句指出：一些公司在一段时间以前就注意到这种思想倾向的变化了。接着以IBM为例进行说明：推出了50多个促进工作和生活平衡的方案。然后进行转折：许多公司还不相信这一变化，即使相信，许多公司也缺乏能力来达成这一目标。由此推出，现在公司分成两派：一种是迅速采取行动，满足员工的需求；一种是不承认变化，也缺乏能力满足员工的需求。可见这是两个极端，故[C]为答案。这里只提到了IBM公司和美国银行的方案，没有提到其他很多公司的方案，故排除[A]；[B]与该段第二句中plenty of other firms remain unconvinced矛盾，故排除；句中只是说许多公司不相信有这种变化，并没有说他们漠不关心，故排除[D]。
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