刘文勇GRE写作Argument题库 Day 34

Day 34 In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations

The vice president of human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president.

“In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations. Employees who use the Internet from their workstations need to be identified and punished if we are to reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities, such as shopping or playing games. By installing software to detect employees' Internet use on company computers, we can prevent employees from wasting time, foster a better work ethic at Climpson, and improve our overall profits.”

Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.

五问：

（1）“In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations”是结论，值得反驳吗？

（2）如果不让员工在上班时关注自己的私人事务，会有什么坏处？其工作效率是否也可能会降低？这会如何影响生产率和利润率？不能及时处理自己的私人事务（尤其是比较着急的事情），可能反而会使员工一直处于焦虑状态，更不能集中精力工作，效率也会更低。

（3）员工浪费时间的方式只有使用电脑这一种吗？是否有这样一种可能：使用电脑反而是浪费时间最少的？用手机也可以网购、玩游戏，用 kindle、ipad等也可以休闲娱乐。

（4）好的工作气氛是什么？像机器一样工作，就是好的工作气氛吗？监控电脑可能会让员工觉得自己不被信任或隐私被侵犯，而适当的休闲娱乐得不到允许的话，疲劳感得不到缓解，工作效率可能只会更低，从而对这份工作失去热情。

（5）利润是由哪些因素决定的？文中是否只讨论了诸多因素中的一两个？你能罗列出别的可能影响利润的因素吗？例如：额外支出的增加，销售费用的增加，甚至安装该软件的费用如果很高的话，都会直接影响到利润。