Managers can also use the office grapevine to their advantage , by finding out if employees are unhappy and understanding the issues bothering them .
管理者们也可以将办公室里的小道消息拿来为己所用,了解员工是否不开心,弄清困扰他们的问题是什么。
The virtual office almost killed the grapevine , it being hard to drum up interest about people one never sees .
虚拟办公几乎扼杀了小道消息,因为不见面的人很难对其提起兴趣。
On the other hand , the grapevine is valuable as a barometer of ' public opinion ' in the organization .
但在另一方面,小道消息作为组织中“民意”的晴雨表是有价值的。
Because there is no law on how much companies must disclose about a cyberattack , details about what may have been stolen and who could have been behind a theft often appear only via the grapevine .
This just in : I have just heard through the industry grapevine that expedia has cut off negotiations with choice hotels and has removed choice properties from its sites , which include expedia.com and hotels.com .
Its chief disadvantages are , first , that it discourages frankness , since confidential remarks may be spread about , and second , that the information transmitted by the grapevine is often ( deliberately or inadvertently ) inaccurate .
Autumn leaf wreath display : buy a grapevine or straw wreath .
秋叶花环:买一个葡萄藤或者麦秆做的花环。
Other studies have come up with a similar figure , suggesting that while details are inevitably lost along the way , the grapevine is mostly accurate .