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职场新概念英语（24） 【篇一】英国零售商正以十年来最快速率裁员 UK retailers cut jobs over the past three months at the fastest rate since comparable records began in 2008, due to technological change and rising employment costs, the British Retail Consortium said. The BRC said its members employed 3.0 per cent fewer staff in the third quarter of this year than during the same time in 2016, and total hours worked fell by 4.2 per cent year-on-year. Both were the steepest falls since the BRC started collecting records in 2008, when Britain was in the middle of its sharpest recession in decades. This contrasts with the picture in the broader economy, where the unemployment rate is its lowest since 1975 and job creation has been strong, albeit partly at the expense of wages. Still, the BRC report chimed with a European Commission survey last month that showed British retailers expectations for employment sank to their lowest since late 2011. The pace of job reductions in the retail industry is gathering steam, BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson said. Behind this shrinking of the workforce is both a technological revolution in retail, which is reducing demand for labour, and government policy, which is driving up the cost of employment, she added. 【篇二】译文 英国零售商协会于日前表示，因为技术变化和就业成本的上升，英国零售商在过去三个月以2008年以来的最快速率实行裁员。 该协会称，今年第三季度其成员雇用员工的数量要比2016年同期减少了3%，总工作时间同比下降了4.2%。 这两项数据都是英国零售商协会自2008年开始收集记录以来的跌幅，当时英国经济正处于数十年来最严重的衰退。 这与整体经济情况形成了鲜明对比，当前英国的失业率是1975年以来的最低水平，就业岗位一直保持强劲态势，即使一定水准上是以牺牲工资为代价的。 不过，英国零售商协会的报告与上月欧盟委员会的调查一致。该调查显示，英国零售商对就业的预期降至2011年末以来的最低水平。 英国零售商协会首席执行官海伦·迪金森表示：“零售业的裁员步伐正在加快。” 她还表示：“政府的政策正在推高雇佣成本，在此次减少劳动力的背后，是零售业的技术革命，这是在减少对劳动力的需求。” 【篇三】中国已成为国际人才市场上一颗冉冉升起的新星 China has become an expanding talent pool and also acts like a magnet for attracting talent, according to a report released in Shanghai. The report said China is now the worlds largest supplier of international students, with 544,500 people studying abroad last year. More than 60 percent of them pursued further education in the United States —