•You will hear another five short pieces. •Each speaker is talking about the effects of a new development in the workplace. •Wri

F: I think things are going to be different from now on. I’m not sure that they’ll be any better but at least we should know what’s going on. Uh, look at the schedule he’s given us for next month: two meetings a week at least, the daily update on department activity on the network.  I like Mr.  Renalds, but you must admit he wasn’t very good at office communications.

F: The big news this year without doubt has been the reallocation of resources with the company. Some departments now have much less to spend and it has lost a considerable number of staff but others are expanding at great speed and are recruiting new people almost every week.  As you can imagine it’s caused a lot of unhappiness in some departments.