托福TPO30独立写作题目及范文——工作时间
在托福写作练习过程中，相信TPO材料中的作文题目都会是大家的首选练习材料。但是，对于每个题目仅仅只是练习写还是不够的，有针对性的解析和指导性，才会让TPO材料更有其使用价值。那么，下面我们就为大家带来TPO写作材料的系列解析内容。
托福独立写作题目及范文：工作时间
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more enjoyable to have a job and you work only three days a week with
long hours rather than work five days a week with shorter hours.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
分类: 独立写作
话题: 建造问题
托福TPO30独立写作题目翻译：
你是否同意以下观点：一份工作时间长但是一周只有三天的工作比一周工作五天每天时间少的工作更舒服。
审题关键词：
enjoyable, long hours, three days, five days, shorter hours
论证分析：
同意：
Use the four days to take a trip
Four days a week are more than enough time to engage in one’s hobbies
不同意：
Long hours of work do not provide enough rest
Continuous hours at job exhaust nerves, lead to psychological disorders in
the long run
TPO30独立写作范文：
The average American works five days a week. We are long used to the social
norm “eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.” However, it
has little to do with efficiency or productivity. Personally speaking, I prefer
working long hours instead of spending time traveling to work on daily
basis.
First, working long hours means one can have more time for vacation. For one
thing, time professionals spent commuting everyday can be spent with their
families, doing exercise routine, or taking care of diet. In this way, when they
come back to work, employers will have energetic workers with clear mind, thus
boosting their output and profit as a result. If it’s not enough, people who
have long time to relax have been proved to be more creative and productive.
When Henry Ford in 1914 famously took the radical step of doubling his workers’
pay, and cut shifts in Ford plants from nine hours to eight, he got bitterly
criticized by the association of manufacturers. However, when his competitors
saw Ford’s business boomed in the next few years, they adopted the same hourly
rate. Especially in innovative industries, employees with more spare time always
tend to be more creative, for they have more time to reflect on their current
works and breed new ideas.
Second, working long hours also means achieve consistency. People cannot
guarantee that all ones’ works can be finished within eight hours. Here comes
the dilemma. One can either working late to finish it, or restart the work next
day. Anyone who has been in this situation knows the latter one means spending
more time on it and low efficiency, while the first one means, willingly or not,
one has to work in unpaid overtime. In this respect, allowing people to arrange
their time flexibly is a way to fix this problem. If employees choose to work
long hours to finish their work within a day, they should get paid and be
allowed to rest in the following day to compensate “off-the-clock” hours.
Admittedly, working long hours can increase health risks and generate more
stress. But we are not talking about it as daily routine. We are talking about
having this schedule less than half of a week. So by allocating time wisely, in
most cases one can avoid those negative impacts and enjoy their lives more.
People take for granted of the eight hour workday, rarely raising questions
about the efficiency and the effectiveness as consequences. If professionals are
given other options, I believe they will appreciate the shorter week more, and
so as for employers.