Summer is fast-approaching, and your employees are anxious to find out if the flex-time schedule currently under discussion will be implemented. You need to inform them that a decision will not be made until all employees have returned a questionnaire requesting their input on this issue. Which of the following phrases this best?
A) Please turn in your questionnaires since a decision won't be made until you do so.
B) The decision will not be made until all employees have submitted their surveys.
C) We need your help, since the decision cannot be contemplated until all forms are turned in.
D) We will be able to make a decision once all the forms are submitted.
E) No decision will be made until all forms are turned in.

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D) Whenever possible, effective business writers choose positive wording to communicate their messages, even in negative situations. The other choices focus on the negative meaning of the message, while this choice uses a positive tone.

Summer Is Fast-Approaching, and Your Employees Are Anxious to Find