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ID
28837
Banca
CESGRANRIO
Órgão
CAPES
Ano
2008
Provas
Disciplina
Inglês
Assuntos

How to dig out from the information avalanche
Majority of workers feel overwhelmed by deluge of data,
survey finds
By Eve Tahmincioglu
updated 8:18 p.m. ET March 16, 2008
Don't expect Shaun Osher, the CEO of Core Group
Marketing in New York, to answer your e-mail right away.
He has stopped responding to e-mails every minute and
only checks his e-mail account twice a day. He also started
turning off his BlackBerry during meetings.
This tactic has made him so much more productive
that earlier this year he held a meeting with his staff of 50
and "strongly suggested" that they stop relying so heavily
on e-mail and actually start calling clients on the phone.
And, he requested his employees put cell phones and
PDAs on silent mode during meetings, as well as curtail
the common practice of cc-ing everybody when sending
out an e-mail. "There was so much redundancy, so much
unnecessary work," he explains. "One person could handle
an issue that should take two minutes, but when an email
goes out and five people get cc-ed, then everybody
responds to it and there's a snowball effect."
It's not that Osher has anything against technology. In
fact, he loves it. The problem is, last year he realized he
was inundated with so many e-mails and so much
information in general that he began to experience data
overload. "In the beginning, e-mail and all this data was a
great phenomenon, revolutionizing what we do. But the
pendulum has swung way too much to the other side," he
maintains. "We're less productive."
Osher isn't the only one out there under a data
avalanche. Thanks to technological innovations, you can
be talking to a customer on your cell phone, answering a
LinkedIn invitation on your laptop, and responding to email
on your PDA all at the same time. Besides, during
tough economic times, who will want to miss any
information when your job could be on the line if you indulge
in the luxury of being offline? Turns out, seven out of 10
office workers in the United States feel overwhelmed by
information in the workplace, and more than two in five
say they are headed for a data "breaking point," according
to a recently released Workplace Productivity Survey.
Mike Walsh, CEO of LexisNexis U.S. Legal Markets,
says there are a host of reasons we're all on the information
brink: "exponential growth of the size of the information
'haystack,' the immensity and immediacy of digital
communications, and the fact that professionals are not
being provided with sufficient tools and training to help
them keep pace with the growing information burden."
Ellen Kossek, a professor from Michigan State, believes
we are less productive in this age of 24-7 technology, and
our multitasking mentality has spawned a "not-mentallypresent"
society. "We're becoming an attention-deficit
disorder society switching back and forth like crazy,"
Kossek says. "We're connected all the time. We're
working on planes, in coffee shops, working on the
weekends. Work is very seductive, but yet we're actually
less effective."
The key to getting your head above the data flood,
according to workplace experts, is managing and reducing
the information you're bombarded with.

© 2008 MSNBC Interactive - (slightly adapted)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23636252/

The purpose of this article is to

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Comentários

  • A) WRONG (blame modern businessmen for being offline during meetings.) - The alternative is wrong, once in any moment the text blame offline meeting, contraryly, offline meetings are suggested as a tatic for fleeing from the information burden.

    B) WRONG (introduce new trends in the market concerning email software) - The alternative is wrong, once there's no new trend introdutions  for e-mail software, but an advising about how to avoid information  burden, by opening your e-mail twice a day.

    C) WRONG (convince businessmen of the advantages of working online on weekends.) - The alternative is wrong, once the advantage convinced on the text is not for working on weekends, but for using alternatives methodes which will help you to dimyour  wasting time with information burden.

    D) WRONG (advertise modern technological devices that are expected to revolutionize the world.) - The alternative is wrong, once the text makes any allusion to the modern technological device and not even has as purpose to revolutionize the world, but to turn the working time life more practical.

    E) RIGHT (report on some effective alternatives to avoid the information burden at the workplace.) - The alternative is right once it has as purpose to  avoid information burden at the workplace by introducing alternatives, such as: offline meeting, checking e-mails twice a day and etc.

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    Some of measures taken to address information deluge at work:

    1- not answering your e-mail right away.
    2- checking your e-mail account twice a day. 
    3- turning off your BlackBerry during meetings.
    4- putting your cell phone and PDA on silent mode during meetings

    etc

  • GAB: LETRA E

    Complementando!

    Fonte:  Prof. Ena Loiola

    The purpose of this article is to = O objetivo deste artigo é  

     

    Opção A: blame modern businessmen for being offline during meetings = culpar os modernos executivos  por  não  estarem  conectados  na  rede  durante  reuniões  e  Opção  C:  convince businessmen  of  the  advantages  of  working  online  on  weekends  =  convencer  os  empresários sobre as vantagens de trabalhar conectados à rede de Internet nos fins de semana. 

     

    • This tactic has made him so much more productive that earlier this year he held a meeting with his staff of 50 and “strongly suggested” that they stop relying so heavily on e-mail and actually start calling clients on the phone. 
    • Essa tática fez-lhe muito mais produtivo que no início deste ano, ele realizou uma reunião com sua equipe de 50 e " sugeriu fortemente " que parem de depender tão fortemente de e-mail e realmente comecem a telefonar para os clientes. 

     

    • O texto não culpa os executivos por isso, mas expressa que o fato de estarem desconectados por algum tempo é algo positivo e mais produtivo.
    • Opções erradas. 

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    Opção B: introduce new trends in the market concerning email software = apresentar as novas tendências  do  mercado  relativas  ao  software  de  e-mail  e  Opção  D:  advertise  modern technological  devices  that  are  expected  to  revolutionize  the  world  =  anunciar  modernos dispositivos tecnológicos os quais se espera que venham a revolucionar o mundo. 

     

    • The  problem  is,  last  year  he  realized  he  was  inundated  with  so  many  e-mails  and  so  much information in general that he began to experience data overload. “In the beginning, e-mail and all  this  data  was  a  great  phenomenon,  revolutionizing  what  we  do.  But  the  pendulum  has swung way too much to the other side,” he maintains. 
    • O  problema  é  que,  no  ano passado,  ele  percebeu  que  estava  inundado  com  tantos  e-mails e tantas informações  em geral, que ele começou a sentir sobrecarga de dados. "No início, e-mail e todos esses dados foi um grande fenômeno, revolucionando o que fazemos. Mas o pêndulo oscilou demais para o outro lado ", ele afirma. 

     

    • Observe no parágrafo acima que o texto nem anuncia novos modelos de software nem afirma que novos dispositivos vão revolucionar o mundo, mas ao invés disso alerta para o perigo que esse fenômeno trouxe à sociedade. 
    • Opções erradas. 

     

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    Opção  E:  report  on  some  effective  alternatives  to  avoid  the  information  burden  at  the workplace. = relatar algumas alternativas eficazes para evitar a sobrecarga de informação no local de trabalho. 

     

    • Observe  o  tema  e  o  subtema:  eles  trazem  o  esclarecimento  da  assertiva.  Perceba  como  os termos são sinônimos entre si: relacionado assertiva e temas.

    • Majority of workers feel overwhelmed by deluge of data, survey finds = Maioria dos trabalhadores se sente oprimido pelo dilúvio de dados, levantamento revela 

    • Portanto  esta  é  a  opção correta.