• The text talks about the use of computers in supermarkets. How many of the uses of computers below can you find in the text
  • Firms tag workers to improve efficiency David Hencke
  • Fill the gaps using these words from the text




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    1,2 - THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY Elementary

    Fill the gaps using these words from the text: 
    warehouse 
    workplace 
    delivery 
    vest 
    shelf 
    wrist 
    theft 
    measure 
    1. 
    A ____________ is a shirt with no sleeves that people often wear under an 
    ordinary shirt, especially in winter. 
    2. 
    The joint between your hand and your arm is called your ____________. 
    3. ____________ 
    is 
    stealing 
    things from another person or from a company. 
    4. 
    People often keep books on a ____________ . 
    5. 
    A ____________ is a large building used for storing goods and food. 
    6. 
    A ____________ is an action which a government takes. 
    7. 
    ____________ means taking goods from one place to another. 
    8. 
    The place where people work is called their ____________ . 
    The text talks about the use of computers in supermarkets. How many of the 
    uses of computers below can you find in the text? 
    1. 
    to reduce costs 
    2. 
    to increase the efficient delivery of goods and food to stores 
    3. to 
    supply 
    prisons 
    4. 
    to send messages to workers 
    5. 
    to check what workers are doing 
    6. 
    to find out what time workers finish work 
    7. 
    to send orders to workers’ computers 
    8. 
    to check if workers are taking breaks without permission 
    9. 
    to control humans 
    10. 
    to remove waste and reduce theft 


    ©
    Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2005 
    Taken from the news section in 
    www.onestopenglish.com
    Firms tag workers to improve 
    efficiency 
    David Hencke 
    Some British supermarket companies are 
    asking their warehouse workers to wear small 
    computers, called “electronic tags”. The 
    companies say that these tags will help them 
    to reduce costs and increase the efficient 
    delivery of goods and food to stores. The 
    system uses American satellite and radio 
    technology to send messages to the workers. 
    In a report Professor Blakemore from the 
    University of Durham said that the use of 
    these tags was making some workplaces more 
    like prisons. 
    The technology arrived from the US at the 
    start of the year and more and more 
    companies are using it. Almost 10,000 
    employees are using it to supply goods to 
    well-known British supermarkets. Trade 
    unionists representing workers are worried 
    that companies could use the technology to 
    check what workers are doing. They are 
    asking for special measures to make sure that 
    this does not happen.
    Under the system workers have to wear 
    computers on their wrists, arms and fingers, 
    and sometimes they have to wear a special 
    vest containing a computer that instructs them 
    where to go to collect goods from warehouse 
    shelves. The system also allows the store to 
    send orders to workers’ computers. The 
    computer can also check if workers are taking 
    breaks without permission and can calculate 
    the shortest time a worker needs to complete a 
    job. 
    Britain already has more street security 
    cameras than any other country in the world, 
    and some experts are worried that this new 
    system could make Britain the most watched 
    country in the world.
    In his report Professor Blakemore said there 
    was a danger that computers were controlling 
    humans rather than humans using computers. 
    Some people are also worried that the new 
    technology could cause industrial injuries 
    because workers had to make the same 
    movements with their arms and wrists again 
    and again.
    But the companies say that the system makes 
    the delivery of food more efficient. It also 
    removes waste, reduces theft and can reorder 
    goods more quickly. A spokeswoman for a 
    supermarket said that the company was not 
    using the technology to check what its staff 
    were doing. She said it was making 
    employees’ work easier and reducing the need 
    for paper. 
    But a trade union spokesman, Paul Campbell, 
    said: “We are getting reports of people 
    leaving their jobs after just a few days and in 
    some cases just a few hours. They are all 
    saying they don’t like the job because they 
    have no input. They are just following a 
    computer’s instructions”. 
    American companies are working on new 
    computer equipment that can check what 
    workers are doing. One system will check 
    how many times secretaries hit the keys on 
    their word processors, and another will check 
    how much work workers are doing.
    The Guardian Weekly
    10/06/2005, page 9


    ©
    Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2005 
    Taken from the news section in 
    www.onestopenglish.com

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