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Questão de Inglês — Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension — FGV 2024

InglêsInterpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Código
fg102623
Banca
FGV
Órgão
EPE
Ano
2024
Nível
Superior
Text I


Office Culture



Companies are clawing to bring back pre-pandemic perks and that 'family' feeling – but employees want something more tangible.


      Many employers are calling employees back into offices, trying to restore the workplace of pre-pandemic days. Along with filling seats, they're also looking to bring back another relic: office culture.


       Pre-2020, office culture was synonymous with the 'cool' office: think places to lounge, stocked pantries and in-office happy hours that went all out; or luxe retreats and team-building exercises meant to foster the feeling of 'family'. In past years, these perks drew many workers to the office – in some cases, entire companies defined themselves by their office cultures.


        The world of work looks and feels entirely different than just a few years ago – yet many companies are still intent on recreating the office cultures workers left behind as they abandoned their desks in 2020. While these companies are making some gestures to adapt – for instance, redesigning spaces to accommodate new preferences and hybrid-work habits – many are still set on bringing back what lured in workers before the pandemic.


         Yet swaths of employees simply aren't interested in going backward. Instead of trust-falls and cold brew on tap, employees are demanding flexible work, equitable pay and a focus on humanity in the workplace that transcends the perks they sought years earlier.

       Workers' shifting priorities are a natural consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, says Georgina Fraser, head of human capital for global commercial real-estate firm CBRE. "The pandemic gave us autonomy in a way that we haven't had previously," she says. "It gave us the opportunity to choose how we structured our working days."


         And now that workers have experienced that level of work-life balance, they won't settle for less. Fraser adds: "Post-pandemic, we saw a resurgence of people being very vocal about what they wanted and needed, not just from office culture, but from the wider world."


        Now, she says, workers aren't shy about "wanting to be seen as a whole human – and that filters down to their physical location, how [employers] manage them, what support they receive and how [employers] integrate technologies between home and office in order to support them".


      One major factor in this changing attitude is that many employees feel office culture simply isn't applicable in a remoteand hybrid-first world, where the physical office can feel superfluous. Now that the workplace doesn't serve as the culture hub it once did, "companies have really struggled to redefine the role of the office", says Lewis Beck, CBRE's head of workplace for Europe. Office culture that was once meant to get employees excited doesn't have the same pull when workplaces are only onethird full.



Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240229-office-culture-isdead
Analyse the statements below based on Text I.I. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, office culture was understood as a concept requiring state-of-the-art technological skills from workers.II. In the past, employees loathed going to fancy resorts.III. Post pandemic workers have priorities other than office perks.Choose the correct answer:
  1. AOnly I is correct.
  2. BOnly II is correct.
  3. COnly III is correct.
  4. DBoth I and II are correct.
  5. EBoth II and III are correct.
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GabaritoC — Only III is correct.

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Interpretação de Texto – Office Culture

Gabarito: letra C. Apenas a afirmativa III está correta. O texto indica que, após a pandemia, os trabalhadores passaram a priorizar flexibilidade, salário justo e foco na humanidade, em vez dos antigos benefícios (perks) da cultura do escritório. As afirmativas I e II contradizem diretamente o que é dito no Text I.

Item I — ❌ Incorreto

Afirma que a cultura de escritório pré-pandemia exigia habilidades tecnológicas avançadas. O texto, porém, descreve o conceito como "lugares para relaxar, despensas abastecidas, happy hours e retiros de luxo" ("places to lounge, stocked pantries and in-office happy hours… luxe retreats"). Não há menção a habilidades tecnológicas.

Item II — ❌ Incorreto

Diz que os funcionários detestavam resorts sofisticados. O texto afirma que esses retiros eram parte dos atrativos que "atraíam muitos trabalhadores para o escritório" ("these perks drew many workers to the office"), indicando o oposto da aversão.

Item III — ✅ Correto

O texto é explícito: "Em vez de trust-falls e café gelado, os funcionários estão exigindo trabalho flexível, salário equitativo e foco na humanidade no local de trabalho que transcende os benefícios que buscavam anos antes" ("Instead of trust-falls and cold brew on tap, employees are demanding flexible work, equitable pay and a focus on humanity"). Portanto, as prioridades pós-pandemia são diferentes dos antigos perks.

Conclusão: Apenas a afirmativa III é correta, o que corresponde à letra C (Only III is correct).

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