英语学习点: Phrases About Work-Life Balance有关工作与生活平衡的词语

Lunchtime Botox anyone?

Would $25,000 (164,000 yuan) for IVF treatment be helpful?

How about anon-site nursery place... for your pet?

Fortune Magazine has revealed that top companies offer some pretty fancy perks to attract employees.

Staff sweeteners include a Latin-style dance exercise called Zumba to improve employee well-being and motivation.

Really stressed-out employees may develop frown lines. But at one company staff whose faces are showing the strain can have Botox treatment during their lunch break at the company's own clinic.

Another company offers the corporate jet to bereaved employees, while one employer gives staff who are finding it difficult to get pregnant $25,000 towards IVF treatment.

But for the business commentator Lucy Kellaway, some companies go too far in trying to help employees achieve a good work-life balance.

"Such benefits, even the nice ones, are all pretty creepy" she says. "There ought to exist a boundary between employer and employee - between home and work. And Botox and IVF are a long way on the wrong side of it."

For Ms Kellaway, the real proof of a top employer is not its touchy-feely benefits but whether staff choose to stay put for a long time.

• treatment [´tri:tmənt]   n.待遇；对待；治疗   (初中英语单词)
• employer [im´plɔiə]   n.雇佣者，雇主   (初中英语单词)
• achieve [ə´tʃi:v]   vt.完成；达到；获得   (初中英语单词)
• boundary [´baundəri]   n.界线，边界   (初中英语单词)
• nursery [´nə:səri]   n.托儿所；苗床；养鱼场   (高中英语单词)
• strain [strein]   vt.拉紧 vi.拖 n.张力   (高中英语单词)
• finding [´faindiŋ]   n.发现物；判断；结果   (高中英语单词)
• trying [´traiiŋ]   a.难堪的；费劲的   (英语四级单词)
• well-being [´wel´bi:iŋ]   n.幸福；健康；福利   (英语六级单词)
• pregnant [´pregnənt]   a.怀孕的；含蓄的   (英语六级单词)