Anyway, it had to be done, because so much of the shopfloor was empty.
无论如何,这是必须要做的事情,因为太多的车间是闲置的。
《卫报》(文章版)
In the calm, sympathetic way Barker attended to her, you could see the years she had spent on the John Lewis shopfloor, and the kind of customer service people had so fondly talked about.
(It is also good for them to stop referring to people as underlings .) Airlines and retailers have run schemes that involve executives working in front-line roles in airports and on shopfloors.
The shop floor is the floor of a factory (machine shop) where people work on machines. It may also refer to the space in a retail establishment where goods are sold to consumers. The shop floor is in contrast to offices, which provide accommodation to the business's management.