Definition-

Are you a learner of English at the upper intermediate level (CEFR level B2)? This part provides reading exercises to assist you in comprehending texts with a broad vocabulary where you may need to take the author's perspective into account. Articles, reports, messages, short stories, and reviews are all examples of texts.

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Example-

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Background 

Although a significant portion of our workforce is made up of millennials (those born between the early 1980s and the early 1990s), they don't always seem to be loyal to the organizations and bosses they work for. As employee retention rates decline, multinational organizations are observing higher turnover rates among millennials. This research examines how organizations should work to fulfill these objectives, boost employee engagement, and promote retention by examining the results of two significant surveys on the millennial generation's attitude.

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Research

More than 40,000 responses from millennials (those born between 1983 and 1993) and non-millennials (those born before 1983) were gathered as part of a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) global survey about workplace culture,  working , pay structure, career development, work-life balance, etc. 

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More than 10,000 millennials took part in a separate global survey by Deloitte to answer questions about how they view the dangers and opportunities in the complex world of work.

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Key findings

• Millennials are just as dedicated to their jobs as their more experienced coworkers. 
• A healthy work-life balance and exciting work are important to millennials. They don't think making sacrifices in their personal lives for excessive work demands is worthwhile. 
• Millennials need flexibility in their working hours and are prepared to forgo income raises and promotions in exchange for it. They contend that productivity, not the amount of hours spent in an office, should be used to determine success. 
• Millennials desire a sense of support and admiration from their employers and superiors. 
• Millennials desire greater chances to advance their careers. These encompass interpersonal, collaboration, and technology competencies.
• Millennials choose companies with high ethical standards because they think that firms and business leaders should work to better society.

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Recommendations

Businesses and managers who want to retain millennials should think about:

• keeping an eye on their workload and how happy they are with their work-life balance 
• changing the organization's goals from being primarily about profit-making to motives that address social concerns and solve larger societal problems by fostering a flexible workplace culture where employees have more control over their working hours and location; providing meaningful work and interesting opportunities; and providing help and support for ongoing professional development.

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Conclusion-

Each lesson includes a model text with writing tips, and tasks to test your understanding and practise various writing skills. Begin right away. Hope that this article helped you and for more information on relevant topics you can visit the SpeakoClub website and can learn and explore more about English speaking and writing.

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