听考研真题|2021年英二阅读1:员工技能落伍了?那就再培训呀!谁允许你辞退另找了??

“Reskilling”is something that sounds like a buzzword but is actually a requirement if we plan to have a future where a lot of would-be workers do not get left behind. 

【生词】buzzword n.（报刊等的）时髦术语，流行行话

would-be adj. 想要成为的,潜在的

【翻译】“技能再培训”听起来像是个流行词，但实际上，如果我们希望构建一个让广大潜在劳动者都不被边缘化的未来，那么这项培训便是一项必要条件。

We know we are moving into a period where the jobs in demand will change rapidly, as will the requirements of the jobs that remain.

【翻译】我们深知，当前我们正步入一个就业市场需求将迅速变化、而现有岗位的任职要求也将随之发生变化的时代。

Research by the World Economic Forum finds that on average 42 per cent of the “core skills”within job roles will change by 2022.That is a very short timeline.

【翻译】世界经济论坛的一项研究发现，到2022 年，各职业岗位中的“核心技能”平均有 42% 将发生变化。这是一段非常短暂的时间跨度。

The question of who should pay for reskilling is a thorny one.For individual companies, the temptation is always to let go of workers whose skills are no longer in demand and replace them with those whose skills are.

【生词】thorny adj.多刺的, 痛苦的, 棘手的

temptation n.诱惑，引诱, 诱惑物

That does not always happen. AT&T is often given as the gold standard of a company who decided to do a massive reskilling program rather than go with a fire-and-hire strategy.

Other companies including Amazon and Disney had also pledged to create their own plans.

【翻译】包括亚马逊和迪士尼在内的其他公司也承诺制定各自的计划。

When the skills mismatch is in the broader economy though, the focus usually turns to government to handle.

【翻译】然而，当技能错配出现在更广泛的经济环境中时，关注点通常会转向政府来应对这一问题。

Efforts in Canada and elsewhere have been arguably languid at best, and have given us a situation where we frequently hear of employers begging for workers, even at times and in regions where unemployment is high.

【生词】languid adj.疲倦的, 没精打采的，呆滞的, 萧条的, 慢吞吞

With the pandemic, unemployment is very high indeed. In February,at 3.5 per cent and 5.5 per cent respectively, unemployment rates in Canada and the United States were at generational lows and worker shortages were everywhere.

【生词】pandemic n.（全国或全球性）流行病，大流行病

at generational lows 处于历史最低水平

As of May, those rates had spiked up to 13.3 per cent and 13.7 per cent,and although many worker shortages had disappeared, not all had done so.In the medical field, to take an obvious example, the pandemic meant that there were still clear shortages of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel.

【生词】personnel n.人员, 人事部门

【翻译】截至5月，这些比率已分别飙升至13.3%和13.7%；尽管许多劳动力短缺问题已得到缓解，但并非所有问题都已解决。以医疗领域为例，疫情导致医生、护士及其他医务人员仍存在明显的短缺现象。

Of course, it is not like you can take an unemployed waiter and train him to be a doctor in a few weeks, no matter who pays for it.

【翻译】当然，你不可能让一名失业的服务员在短短几周内就培训成一名医生——无论这笔费用由谁承担。

But even if you cannot close that gap, maybe you can close others, and doing so would be to the benefit of all concerned.

【翻译】但即便您无法弥合这一差距，或许您仍能弥补其他方面的不足，而这样做将对所有相关方有益。

That seems to be the case in Sweden: When forced to furlough 90 per cent of their cabin staff, Scandinavian Airlines decided to start up a short retraining program that reskilled the laid-off workers to support hospital staff.

【生词】furlough n.休假 v. 强制休假

cabin staff 机舱乘务人员

laid-off adj.被解雇的、被裁员的

The effort was a collective one and involved other companies as well as a Swedish university.

【翻译】这项合作是多方共同参与的，涉及其他多家企业以及一所瑞典大学。