2017年12月英语四级阅读理解：什么样的公司最受雇员喜欢

　　What Makes a Company Great to Work For

　　什么样的公司最受雇员喜欢

　　It may be hard to imagine, but there is a better place to work than Google.

　　有比谷歌还理想的雇主吗?难于想象，但这样的公司不是没有。

　　That's what Fortune magazine says, anyway, in its latest annual list of the 100 Best Companies10 Work For. The winner is NetApp, a 5,000 employee data-storage company based inSunnyvale, Calif. NetApp helped topple the previous list-leader, Google, to No. 4 on theFortune Iist from its usual No. 1. Financial-services firm Edward Jones, known for its small-cityoffices and personal touch with clients， is No. 2, and the Boston Consulting Group, a bigmanagement consulting firm, came in third.

　　《财富》杂志在最新的年度排行榜《最佳雇主100强》当中就是这么说的。摘得桂冠的是NetApp，一家总部位于美国加州森尼维尔的数据存储公司，雇员有5000人。去年高居榜首、通常总是拿第一的谷歌，则被挤到了第四的位置。金融服务公司爱德华·琼斯获得亚军，很多人都知道这家办公室分布在小城市的公司和对客户的人性化。波士顿咨询公司位居第三，这是一家大型管理咨询公司。

　　　What makes NetApp so great? Its egalitarian culture, Fortune says-which seems likely to makeemployees' juggles a lot easier. For example, business travelers often suffer jet lag orexhaustion trying to take the cheapest flights to save their employers money. Mindful of theproblem, NetApp management ditched a travel policy a dozen pages long in favor of a simplemaxim: "We are a frugal company. But don't show up dog-tired to save a few bucks. Use yourcommon sense," the policy says, according to Fortune. Other perks include several that promiseto improve work-family-community balance, such as five paid days off for volunteer work and$11 ,390 for adoption assistance.

　　为什么NetApp这么强?《财富》说，这是由于它的平等主义文化一一看来这种文化很容易俘获员工的心。例如，为给雇主省钱、总是乘坐最便宜航班的出差员工，常常受到时差和疲劳的困扰。考虑到这个问题，NetApp的管理层制定了一项差旅政策，10来页的篇幅总结起来也就是一句话，按《财富》的引述是：“我们是一家节俭的公司，但不要为省几块钱而以筋疲力竭的形象示人。运用常识做事”其他好规定中，有几条许诺要增进工作·家庭·社区的平衡，比如有5天带薪假用于志愿工作，还提供11390美元的收养补助。

　　But don't bother to apply for a job there. NetApp has 45,898 applications pending for 55openings, Fortune says-producing odds only slightly better than winning Powerball.

　　但不要劳神去这家公司找工作了。《财富》说， NetApp有55个空缺岗位，但有45898人排队申请，成功机会只比强力球彩票的中奖几率高一点。

　　Thinking back over the six employers 1 have worked for, the one that has kept me happiest,longest, has offered me more training, more new challenges and more pay increases than theothers. The culture at this employer-my current one-has been a factor too，including thecollegial atmosphere and emphasis on high professional standards.

　　回顾我工作过的6家公司，让我最快乐，工作时间最久的那一家，给我的培训、新挑战和涨工资的次数都比其他几家多。这家公司就是我现在就职的这一家，其文化也是一个因素，包括它学院式的氛围，以及对高专业标准的强调。

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