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

(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 minimum and a daily update on departmental 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 within the company. Some departments now have much less to spend and have had to lose 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.