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

Zappos设计的总部大楼还有意让其1,500员工增加与这座城市亲密接触的机会。公司关闭了停车场通往办公大楼的天桥，员工只能绕远走去办公室，沿途要经过不少公共人行道。公司还开放了一楼大厅作为自由的协作空间，就像颇具格调的酒店大堂一样，员工们可以与其他公司的人以及来访者在这里沟通交流。Zappos还打算在电梯内安装益智问答等电子游戏，从而有助于打破让人尴尬的沉闷，奥尔森说道。

'Those ground-floor connection points, we see that as magic,' says Mr. Olson, who switched from a technology job to a real-estate job after a chance conversation with his current boss and met his fiancé by bumping into her at a work event.

奥尔森说：“我们认为，这些随处可见的沟通节点是具有魔力的。”奥尔森自己就是受益者之一：他原先从事技术工作，有一次无意中与现在的主管交谈，随后转而从事地产规划;他的未婚妻也是在一次工作聚会中偶遇的。

Other firms are trying ice breakers to bring workers closer together. David Rose, a researcher at MIT's Media Lab, has teamed up with the design firm Gensler and exhibit-design firm Tellart to design a series of interactive installations expected to be set up later this year in the Portland and San Francisco offices of tech firm Salesforce.comCRM +1.09% and eventually in other companies as well.