Hot Desk 公用办公桌 Do you think hot-desking is a good idea?
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I’m Helen.
Zoë: 大家好，我是刘佳。
地道英语和大家一起学习英语中新出现的流行词汇还有一些新用法。
那 Helen, 遥咱们要学的新词是什么呢？
Helen: Today’s new word is hot desk.
That’s H.
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hot and D.
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desk.
Hot desk.
-- end_story -->Zoë: Hot desk.
热的，和桌子加起来指的是什么呢？
Helen: Well, hot desk is a new expression that means to share a desk or office space.
Workers don’t have their own desks, but share them and use them at different times.
Zoë: 说的就是几个人在不同的时间共用一个桌子，用的人多，桌子可不就热了吗，所以是hot desk。
Helen: Yes.
It is more common nowadays.
You might say 'we have hot-desking at work to save money.
' Zoë: 这的确是个节约开支的办法，充分发挥了这个桌子的作用。
不是单遥属于谁，而是大家一起在不同的时间公用。
Insert A: Is this your desk?
B: No – we have hot-desking here.
I work at any desk I want.
It’s much more efficient.
Helen: Do you have your own desk?
Zoë: Yes, but I wouldn’t mind hot-desking.
Helen: I wouldn’t like hot-desking.
I like to have my things around me, and I don’t like other people moving them!
Zoë: I know what you mean.
I like having my personal space as well.
Helen: Still I guess hot-desking is a good idea in some offices.
Zoë: Why?
Helen: Maybe some people are not in the office every day, so it would be better to have hot-desking rather than waste money and space on individual desks.
Zoë: So it could save costs for companies.
Helen: Yes.
Anyway, to recap hot desk means to share desks.
Zoë: Hot desk 就是公用的办公桌。
That’s it for today.
Helen: Yes, that’s all.
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