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Episode 10

 

Sarah starts her first day on the job and is shown around the office by Philip and Marcia.

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Business Notes

In the final video Sarah starts her first day at WebWare and Philip and Marcia show her around the office. Sarah is surprised to find that she doesn’t have to hot desk. Hot desking is the practice of using any available desk at work, instead of having a desk assigned to you and is quite common in UK companies. It is often associated with flexible working and work-life balance, two buzz words in corporate life these days.

Flexible working is a phrase that describes any working pattern adapted to suit the needs of the employee.

Common types of flexible working are:

part-time: working less than the normal hours, perhaps by working fewer days per week

flexi-time: choosing when to work (there's usually a core period during which you have to work)

compressed hours: working your agreed hours over fewer days

staggered hours: different starting, break and finishing times for employees in the same workplace

job sharing: sharing a job designed for one person with someone else

home working: working from home

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Submitted by htram12 on 11 December, 2011 - 16:39. Vietnam

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Submitted by EHSXM on 7 December, 2011 - 14:44. China

hello,
The video is not working.it always present one sentence as xml config not found.
who can help me to correct this problem.thanks a lot
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Submitted by AdamJK on 7 December, 2011 - 18:52. Poland

Hello Sharpay,
I'm sorry to hear that. Recently our users in China have had problems seeing our videos. We're trying to find a solution to this problem.
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Submitted by Aziz Salem Ahme... on 3 December, 2011 - 04:44. Oman

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Submitted by sherihane ali on 24 November, 2011 - 14:48. Egypt

Hello , I Try to watch to the videos but they do not work at all , please help me because i have an interview soon   i want to improve and train myself on the interviews

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Submitted by Olga Skotar on 21 December, 2011 - 10:32. Ukraine

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Submitted by yetmira on 25 November, 2011 - 22:25. Albania

Hello Sherihane,
I had the same problem one week ago. The problem was with the web, I was using Internet Explorer, then I changed it with Google chrome, after this everything was OK. May be you have the same problem. So try once to change the web you are using, may be your problem will be solved after this.
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