International Management

TO: Employees

From: Xueting “snowy” Yang

Date: 5 September, 2012

Subject: Discontinue Downloading Audio Files

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Since our company opened during the late 1990s, Aspire Consulting has allowed you all the freedom of personal expression. That might help you to decrease your stress, and work in a relaxed environment. However, this has caused some problems. Some activities appear at the extreme: some of the employees bring their pets to work, rollerblade to meetings, and play guitars to relive stress. Most employees simply enjoy playing music on their personal computers. So, most employees will download music in their personal computer during work time.

Listening to music is a great way to relax ourselves. When we are tired, a gentle piece of music will help us to calm down, and that will also be helpful for us to relieve our stress when we are facing some complex problems. We can get a lot of benefits from listening to music, for example: pain killer, reduces stress, cardiovascular benefits, stimulate brains cells, boosts exercise performance, promote a sound sleep, increase optimism, helps in cancer, helps socialize, helps with spiritual health.

As the director, I have found that the music industry prosecutes and seeks substantial fines against companies that allow employees to download copyrighted music files over web. The music industry has their own way to produce music and sell their productions, but there are a lot of websites that did not buy the license to sell music productions, this has caused the decrease of income in music industry. So I have to tell you the bad news that I cannot allow you to download audio files during work times and you must delete any music files you have already downloaded. However, you still can continue to download in a legally way. Such as to pay for the music you are listening to.

Xueting Yang