每日一篇经济学人| Gen Z and work Z世代和职场

GenZ and work:- more flexibility, more security and more money

相关词语：

1. GenZ: refer to between the late 1990s and early 2000s
2. Millennials (Generation Y)：refer to between the 1980 and the late 1990s
3. Generation X: refer to born in the decade or so to 1980.
4. labour force-participation rate: 劳动参与率
5. diploma-holder = graduate
6. job listing 招聘事项 eg. enage with job listings that mention flexibility.
7. skills gap for all types of job 技能人才短缺
8. axe = lay off v 裁员 axe sb or sb get the axe
9. early-career bet 早期职业生涯选择 eg. less secure early-career bet for ambitious graduate
10. job opening 职位空缺
11. cough up 支付,给予 eg. cough up more money
12. base salary 底薪

Vocabulary:

1. unearth = dig out 发掘找到
2. pyjamas 睡衣
3. hammocks 吊床
4. ardour 热情、激情 eg. ardour for life 对生活热情 eg. Gen-zs' love affairs with tech may be losing some of its ardour.
5. revoke 取消，废除
6. economic swings 经济波动
7. Covid-19 first struck 疫情爆发
8. pre-pandemic 疫情前

Nice sentence:

1. （远程办公的好处）Although Gen-z recurits felt more lonely and isolated than their old colleagues, the ability to work remotely has unearthed new possibilities. The benefits go beyond working in your pyjamas. Many are takng calls from beach chairs and hammocks in more exotic locales. They even are relocating and fleeing big cities in seach for cheaper or larger homes.
2. （z世代灵活性就业的需要产生了人才短缺）Industries with jobs that cannot be done from home are falling out of favour with recent graduates. There is an inverse relationships between talent shortages and flexible working polocies. The sectors which are either less able to offer remote work or have been slower to embrace it, including construction, finance, and manufacturing , have been facing some of the biggest skill gaps for all types of job.
3. （Z世代偏向稳定就业）Those graduates who do choose tech are likelier to pick an established firm over a sexy(时髦的） startup with hazier prospects（前景黯淡）. Some graduates may instead option for other high-tech sectors that seem less vulberable to economic swings(经济波动）. Drugmakers at the forefront of the covid-19-vaccine rollout are finding particular favour. Meanwhile, graduates' sharpening focus on job security also boosts the appeal of the public sector. Around 1.4m Chinese people vie for 31,000 government positions by sitting the notoriously tough national civil-service exam, increasing by more than a half since covid-19 first struck. If graduates keep graviating towards safe governement jobs, that will leave a smaller talent pool for private employers to fish in.
4. （如何吸引年轻人就业）The best thing firms can do to lure young talent is to cough up more money. Some earlier hobby horses such as an employer's commitment to diversity and inclusion or coporate social responsibility have edged down the list of American graduates' priorities. By contrast, competitive base salary and high future earnings have edged up. Some companies have been rasing their starting salaries, or offering recent graduates sign-on bonuses and subsidies on living necessities.