1 . The Covid-19 pandemic has forced millions of us to participate in one of the biggest social experiments of our time: what would happen if office workers largely abandoned their workplaces and began working from home?    1    

One thing seems clear: more people working remotely has brought some benefits for the environment. Wildlife has be enable to reclaim urban spaces while people have been tapping away at their home keyboards, with less commuter (通勤者) traffic.

    2    The major benefits of home working include people having more flexibility to do jobs around their family, and balance exercise and leisure time, thus being able to wear whatever they like, controlling their own heating and lighting and not having to commute.

Many people have also been able to get more done while working remotely.    3     “There used to be a lot of resistance to working from home because managers thought employees would just go of off and watch soap operas, but there’s a lot more trust now,” says Sue Williamson at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia.

    4    Many people forced to work from home have reported feeling isolated and finding it harder to switch off due to the unclear boundary between work and home life.    5    This is probably because it’s hard to get those accidental conversations between people that spark ideas when everyone is physically separated.

As vaccines help to control Covid-19, many organizations are hoping to reap the best of both worlds by letting employees work from home on some days and travel to the office on others.

Career training comes in all forms. As     1     important part of career training, online training has helped raise the skill levels of employees and make them better prepared for the job market. Government departments have made a series of policies to inspire workers to     2     (active) take part in online career training. Before April 18, 2020, 31 provinces     3     (set) up websites for online training companies. Besides, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security intended to work with some network companies and introduce digital courses covering     4     (many) than 100 jobs.

In order to encourage people     5     (take) online training, the ministry will provide subsidies (补助金) for the workers     6     receive online training. Some provinces have come up     7     a series of new measures so as to ensure the quality of online career training.

It is important to build interactive     8     (platform) for online training, such as filming courses in the workshop, so that people can gain access to more     9     (practice) skills. What’s more, it’s also necessary to     10     (strength) the guidance of online training companies and set standards related to the content and duration of the courses.