企业界趋势：顶尖企业着力促进员工沟通_职场英语

企业界趋势：顶尖企业着力促进员工沟通

Online retailer Zappos is encouraging employee collisions in its new 200,000-square-foot downtown Las Vegas headquarters, which it expects to occupy this fall. Inspired by dense cities, which allow for more interactions than sprawling suburbs, Zappos will allot workers about 100 square feet per person, instead of the 150 square feet in its current suburban office. Break rooms will be 'really small, so people literally collide,' says Patrick Olson, Zappos's senior manager of campus development. (The smaller space per person is also a cost-saver, to be sure.)

在线零售商Zappos在拉斯维加斯市中心新建了一座占地20万平方英尺(约1.86万平米)的总部大楼，预计在2013年秋季投入使用。因为看到密集的城市布局比稀疏的郊区布局更容易促发人际交流，受此启发，Zappos分配给每个员工的办公面积约为100平方英尺(9.3平米)，有意增加员工在总部大楼中的相遇的机会，而其目前位于郊区的办公大楼人均办公面积为150平方英尺(约14平米)。Zappos公司负责办公地产规划的资深经理帕特里克.奥尔森(Patrick Olson)说道，新大楼的员工休息室“非常非常小，人们真的就是低头不见抬头见”。(当然，缩水的人均办公面积也能节约成本。)

The headquarters are also designed to put its 1,500 staffers in close contact with the city at large. The company is closing off a skybridge connecting the parking garage to the office building, so workers will have to walk a longer route to get to the office, passing pedestrians along the way. Zappos is also opening up its lobby as a free co-working space, like a trendy hotel lobby, so that employees can mingle with workers from other companies and visitors. In its elevators it hopes to install digital games, such as trivia challenges, to help break awkward silences, says Mr. Olson.