Online Class Notes (Mike)

Do you think college should be free?

Pros of Working from Home
1. Time and cost saving
You can work from home without getting up early. If you work at 9am, then I think you just have to get up before 9am to turn on your computer and start checking your work emails. Because no one knows what time you get up, you may not have washed your face and brushed your teeth, and you can even eat breakfast while checking your email. You also don’t have to care what you wear to work today, and you can even keep wearing your pajamas all day.
2. Work/Life Balance
Working from home means I can have more time to do housework. I can wake up in the morning and put yesterday’s change of clothes in the washing machine, and I can work with the machine at the same time. When I’m done working for a while, I can hang out the laundry or do other chores.
The Cons of Working from Home
1. Efficiency
Working at home many small things may affect your efficiency, for example, a good TV or movie, you may have a lot of delicious food sitting around. Worse, you may spend a lot of time playing with your social media accounts
2. Technical Support
when I was in my home studio, I suddenly had a problem with my computer. At this time IT is not with you, then it may take you a long time to contact him, which causes your work will be delayed.

Pros of Working in an Office
1.Collaboration& communication
Working in the office, you can always find the person you are looking for, and if you encounter difficulties, you can report to your manager in time. If you want to ask your colleague for help, she is there for you.
Cons of Working in an Office
1. Commuting time
If your home is very far from your office, then this means you may have to spend 1-2 hours more than other colleagues on the road. Maybe you can work better with an extra 2 hours a day.

I prefer to work in the office because my home is very close to the office and I can get there in about half an hour. Although my home is comfortable and I can lie in bed whenever I am tired, but I prefer to work with my colleagues and we can always share what happened that day.

Pros of Working from Home
1. Time and cost saving/Less commute time 
You can work from home without getting up early. If you start working at 9am, then I think you just have to get up before 9am to turn on your computer and start checking your work emails. No one knows what time you get up, you may not have washed your face and brushed your teeth, and you can even eat breakfast while checking your email./You can check your emails before washing …. Also, you don’t have to care/think about what you wear today, and you can even keep wearing your pajamas all day.
2. Work/Life Balance
Working from home means I can have more time to do housework. I can wake up in the morning and put yesterday’s dirty clothes in the washing machine, and I can work while machine at the same time.
I can check my email inbox while the washing machine is doing laundry.
When I’m done working for a while, I can hang out the laundry or do other chores.
During my break, I will hang the washed clothes or do some other chores.

The Cons of Working from Home
1. Low Efficiency
Many small things will affect your efficiency/lower your productivity when you work from home, for example, a good TV show or movies, delicious food/snacks. What’s worse, you may spend a lot of time on social media.
2. Lack of Technical Support
Technical errors occur in our everyday work and when IT is not with you, then it may take a long time before IT replies, which causes your work to be delayed.

Pros of Working in an Office
1.Collaboration& communication
Working in the office, you can always find the person you are looking for, and if you encounter difficulties, you can report to your manager in time. If you want to ask your colleague for help, she/he is there for you. I can communicate with my colleagues more smoothly when we are all in the office.
Cons of Working in an Office
1. Commuting time
If you live far from your office, then you need to spend longer time commuting. If you could save the commuting time, you can improve your life quality.

I prefer to work in the office because my home is very close to the office and I can get there in about half an hour. Although my home is comfortable and I can lie in bed whenever I am tired, but I still prefer to work in person because I can share everything with my colleagues.

Vocabulary

commute (v) 通勤

hang out (n) 一起玩

lack (v/n) 缺乏，缺少，不足
I don’t lack anything.
He lacks confidence.
Lack of confidence is my biggest problem.
Lack of sleep makes me angry/tired.
Despite his lack of work experience, he still got this job. 尽管

job (n) 一份工作
Our company has 3 jobs opening.
He is doing 2 jobs.

work (v/n)
My work is tiring.

occur (v) 出现，被想起/浮现
Earthquakes occur often in this area. 地震
A good idea occurred to me just now. 浮现在我的脑海。
This kind of things never occurred in our company.
It never occurred to me that he is such a horrible person. 我想不到他是如此糟糕的一个人。

reply (v/n) 回复
I need to reply a message.
I need to reply his message.
reply to sb

smooth (adj.)
Our communication with LV has been very smooth. 沟通很顺畅