Key Vocabulary List. technology, technological, technical, technique, techniciantechnology, technological, technical, technique, technician computer, to computerize, to be computer literate/illiterate to write and programme software, word-processing, word-processor telecommunications systems, teleconference, teleconferencing, video conference to hold meetings using telephone conference lines to work from home/ in one’s own home, to make a good teleworker production line, assembly line technical expertise obsolete, to be rendered obsolete to automate factories, automation to qualify, to be (highly) qualified, qualification, formal qualifications, to have the necessary qualifications for a job low-skilled/ semiskilled/ unskilled workers job sharing, shortening of the working week an opening for a position to save, savings, to make savings to save a few hours a day travelling to work to cut costs, to increase the efficiency of production productivity, losses in productivity, increases in productivity to compete (for the job), competition, competitive, competent, incompetent to benefit (from smth), to be of benefit to smb to maintain good working relationships to keep an eye on the staff to have a dramatic effect on smth to replace, to be replaced by smb to estimate, estimates, to estimate worker’s efficiency and productivity efficient, efficiency, effective, effectiveness to accelerate, to slow down to hide heads in the sand to fight a losing battle Text A
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