原味人文风情：

What Do People Do All Day?
人们整天在做什么？
A presentation by me.
由我来报告。
Most people go to work, which is less fun than bowling with your friends. My dad works in business. He says it's just as fun as bowling, but I'm not so sure. He says that it's important for people to be engaged in their work, that it makes them do a good job. My dad says only one in 10 people are engaged. He's so engaged that they've recently gave him an award.
大部分的人去工作，那比和朋友打保龄球还不好玩。我爸爸是生意人。他说工作就和打保龄球一样好玩，不过我可不太确定。他说人们投入工作是很重要的，那让他们交出好成绩。我爸爸说只有十分之一的人积极投入。爸爸非常认真，他们最近才颁给他一个奖。
When people aren't engaged, they get very fidgety and stare out of the window, thinking of all the other things they would rather be doing. My dad says almost half of the people who aren't engaged are already looking for other jobs. And people who aren't excited about coming to work are 2.5 times more likely to pretend they have a tummy ache and stay in bed, which costs UK businesses over 32 billion pounds a year.
当人们对工作不投入时，他们会变得很坐立难安，然后盯着窗外看，想着所有他们宁可现在在做的其它事情。我爸爸说几乎有一半没有投入感的人已经在找其它工作了。而对去上班不觉得兴奋的人，他们假装肚子痛然后待在床上的可能多出 2.5 倍，那一年花掉英国企业超过 320 亿英镑。

My dad's boss hired a very clever woman, with shiny shoes, who's helped everyone understand their jobs and feel part of a great, big team all playing the same game. Dad says when you feel good about your work, you can't wait to get out of bed and try even harder than the day before.
我爸爸的老板请了一个很聪明的女人，脚上穿着亮晶晶的鞋子，她帮助每个人了解自己的工作，然后觉得自己是全在同一场比赛里出色的大团队的一员。爸爸说当你对自己的工作感觉很好时，你就会等不及要离开床铺然后比昨天更卖力工作。
The very clever woman makes sure that the boss spends time with everyone in the company, to ask them for all their brilliant ideas, and that everyone has all the information they need to be able to work together to do amazing things. The very clever woman says that people who are involved in their work are 87 percent more likely to stay in their jobs and 70 percent more likely to be nicer to their customers.
那个很聪明的女人确保老板花时间和公司里的每个人相处、向员工找好点子，然后每个人都有他们需要的所有信息，以能一起做了不起的事情。很聪明的女人说积极参与工作的人，他们留在岗位上的机率高出百分之八十七，而且会多出百分之七十的机率对客户比较好。
Since that woman arrived, my dad's company has grown three times as fast as the people next door and made 43 percent more profit. My dad's boss was so pleased he took everyone bowling!
从那个女人来以后，爸爸的公司比隔壁成长快三倍，而且多创造了百分之四十三的利润。我爸爸的老板高兴到带大家去玩保龄球!
And the very clever woman is always thinking of new ways for people to want to work together in the future. She will probably be the boss of the company by then, or she might even be the minister of engagement for the government. By then, people from different countries might be able to use their computer phones to understand each other in one special language.
而那个很聪明的女人一直在思考新方法让人们以后想一起工作。她到时候或许会成为公司的老板，或她甚至可能成为政府的「提升工作投入感部长」。那时候，不同国家的人可能可以用他们的计算机手机以一种特别的语言来理解彼此。

When I grow up, I can go to a holographic meeting or send my avatar to work for me. Someday you might even be able to work in your sleep and have the boss sending messages to your brain. People will work from anywhere. We'll still want to go to the office to have fun and be with people. When I start work, I think I'll hold an election so that everyone can decide who the boss is.
我长大后，我可以参加全像投影会议，或派我的虚拟化身去替我工作。有一天你甚至搞不好可以在睡梦中工作，然后老板传讯息到你的大脑里。人们会从任何地方工作。我们还是会想去办公室度过快乐时光还有和人们聚在一起。在我开始工作的时候，我想我会办一场选举，让每个人可以决定老板是谁。
Maybe work isn't so bad after all. I think I might even try it one day. But I need to finish primary school first.
或许工作终究没有那么糟糕。我想我搞不好有一天会想试试看呢。不过我得先读完小学。