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企业留不住年轻人现象
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  • I live in a house full of millennials, three of whom are having their first skirmishes with working life. Every day I study them, marvelling2 at how little their early experiences resemble my own. Sometimes I think it is because they are different. Sometimes because the world is different. I don’t know the right answer — but at least I know the wrong one when I see it.

    我们家有好几个千禧一代,其中3个刚开始尝到工作生活的滋味。我每天都在研究他们,惊叹于他们的早期经历与我有多么不同。有时我觉得这是因为他们和我不一样。有时我觉得是这个世界变了。我不知道正确答案是什么——但至少我能一眼看出哪些答案是错误的。

    Last week I got an email with the subject line “attracting millennials” from the dean of Columbia’s School of Professional Studies. He has been pondering the question of why so many of the brightest twentysomethings quit their fancy jobs, and has come up with a three-pronged strategy to help companies hang on to them. It goes like this: motivate through learning, market your benefit, invest in HR.

    上周,我收到了一封来自哥伦比亚大学职业研究学院(Columbia University School of Professional Studies)院长的邮件,主题栏写着“吸引千禧一代”。他最近一直在思考一个问题:为什么会有这么多20多岁的青年才俊辞去光鲜的工作?他想出了一个三管齐下的策略来帮助企业留住他们。策略是这样的:通过学习进行激励、推销你的福利、投资于人力资源(HR)。

    I stared at these puny3 bullet points and wondered if this man had ever met a millennial1. That evening I asked my focus group around the dinner table if they agreed that the answer to mass disenchantment was more HR and training. Much derision followed.

    我看着这些小小的要点,纳闷这个人是否和千禧一代打过交道。那天晚上我向围坐在餐桌旁的“焦点小组”问道,他们是否认同这样的见解:大规模幻想破灭的答案是更多HR和培训。随之而来的是一片嘲笑声。

    So how ought companies act to keep their graduates, I asked them. They snatched up their devices and addressed their sprawling4 acquaintanceships on social networks — could anyone who had landed a big graduate job that they were now thinking of quitting please get in touch?

    接着我问道,那么企业该怎么做才能留住毕业生。他们迅速抓起各自的手机,向他们在社交网络上越来越庞大的人脉关系网发问——有谁得到了一份像样的毕业生工作,但现在考虑辞去?

    What followed was a diverting evening hearing the experiences of the disenchanted at Unilever, Goldman, Lloyds, a magic circle law firm, a big PR company, Sainsbury’s and a couple of big-name management consultants5.

    接下来是一个有趣的夜晚,听着这帮小年轻吐槽对联合利华(Unilever)、高盛(Goldman)、劳埃德银行(Lloyds)、一家“神奇圈”(Magic Circle)律所、一家大型公关公司、森宝利超市(Sainsbury's)以及两家大牌管理咨询公司幻想破灭的经历。

    One graduate told me she had just spent four months working on a deck of 250 PowerPoint slides no one would ever read. Another said juniors at her law firm were expected to nip out to buy sandwiches for seniors, as if they were their fags at Eton. A graduate with a first in English from Oxford6 university said her boss insisted on checking every email she wrote before it was sent, making her doubt her own ability to write a sentence.

    一名毕业生告诉我,她刚刚花了4个月的时间做了一份长达250页、压根没人会看的PPT幻灯片。另一个毕业生说,她所在律所的初级律师要给资深律师跑腿买三明治,就像伊顿公学里那些受欺负的孩子一样。一名从牛津大学(Oxford University)毕业并拿到英语专业一级荣誉学位的年轻女士说,她的老板坚持检查她所写的每封邮件,然后才能发出,使得她开始质疑自己写句子的能力。

    Almost everyone complained of the sheer stupidity of the tasks they were given to do.

    几乎所有人都抱怨自己接到的愚不可及的任务。

    And then as an afterthought, they mentioned the hours. It’s not fun to have worked all night and then to be given a bollocking for not having shaved.

    接着,他们想起了另一个问题:工作时长。通宵工作之后因为没刮胡子而被臭骂一顿,这一点也不好玩。

    What is going on here? Are they spoilt whingers? Or are these jobs really intolerable? I think it’s a bit of both: they are up against the widest gap between expectations and reality that the professional world has ever seen — and it’s not their fault.

    到底发生了什么?他们是被宠坏的满腹牢骚之人吗?或者这些工作真的很无聊吗?我觉得两种原因都有:他们面对的期望与现实差距之大,在职场世界是前所未见的——这不是他们的错。

    Most of these graduates have been told over and over again by prospective7 employers that they are extraordinary, and that their jobs are amazing. The Bain website is typical: “We need smart, innovative8 thinkers who aspire9 to incredible things. The learning curve is steep. But the work is exhilarating. And your career potential is infinite.”

    多数毕业生听到未来雇主们一遍又一遍地强调他们的出类拔萃、他们的工作有多棒。贝恩(Bain)网站上的内容就是典型例子:“我们需要聪明、具有创新力、渴望尝试不可思议之事的思考者。学习曲线是陡峭的。但工作令人振奋。你拥有无限的职业潜力。”

    When I was their age no one ever told me I was amazing or that the future was infinite, so I wasn’t especially disappointed to find I wasn’t and it wasn’t.

    我像他们这么大时,没人告诉我我很出色或者我拥有无限的未来,所以当我发现自己没那么出色、未来也没那么光明时,我并没有特别失望。

    By contrast, millennials are being set up by their employers for an inevitable10 fall. At first things go OK — there is the promise of air miles and the general swagger of it all. But after a few months, the boredom11 hits and they find they aren’t faced with exhilarating work. They are filling in spreadsheets that have no apparent purpose.

    相比之下,千禧一代从一开始就被雇主推上了注定会掉落的高台。最初一切貌似美好——有机会出差挣得飞行里程等等,总之是一份让人神气十足的光鲜工作。但是数月后,厌倦袭来,他们发现自己面对的并不是令人兴奋的工作,而是日复一日地填写着看不出意义的电子表格。

    Junior jobs were always dull, but I suspect that they are worse than they were. In my day there was no PowerPoint, no spreadsheets, no PR, no HR, no layer upon layer of non-work to be doing. Even in my earliest jobs when I was given boring tasks I realised that someone had to do them. These graduates feel part of a machine: because everyone knows they probably won’t stay, no one makes any particular effort to get to know them.

    初级工作总是平淡的,但是我怀疑如今的情况比过去更糟。在我那个时代,还没有PPT、电子表格、公关、HR,也没有一层又一层并非工作的事情要做。即使在我接到乏味任务的早期工作中,我也明白总得有人做这些工作。当今这些毕业生感觉就像机器的零件一样:因为每个人都知道他们很可能不会留下来,所以没人特别花功夫去了解他们。

    More dangerous still is the gap between the corporate12 bullshit and the business itself.

    不过,更危险的是企业胡扯与企业现实之间的差距。

    A young graduate at a management consultancy tells me that every day it is drummed into him by superiors that the firm always acts in the best interests of the client. But every week he watches the same people trying to flog further costly13 services that the client doesn’t need.

    一名在管理咨询公司工作的年轻毕业生告诉我,上司每天都会向他灌输公司总是以客户利益至上的观念。但是每周他都会看到这些人试着兜售客户不需要的高价额外服务。

    When the penny drops like this, there are only two possible outcomes. Either you quit — and this particular millennial has just banked his bonus and is about to do just that — or you silence your doubts and get sucked into the machine.

    当年轻人幡然醒悟时,只有两种可能的后果。要么你辞职——这位年轻人刚刚拿到奖金,正打算辞职——要么收起你的怀疑,甘心投入运转中的机器。

    This is what employers should be concentrating on. They should be trying to distract their new graduates at the point of maximum disaffection. The answer isn’t training or more HR — it is all round better management. They must stop telling them they have landed the most amazing job in the world. Instead they should give them something interesting to do, or at least be able to explain why filling in that particular spreadsheet really matters.

    这才是雇主应该关注的地方。他们应该尝试在新毕业生最失落的时候吸引住这些年轻人。答案不是培训和人力资源——而在于更好的日常管理。他们必须停止告诉年轻人他们得到了世界上最牛的工作。相反,他们应该交给他们一些有意思的任务,或者至少解释一下填写那些电子表格的意义。

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    1 millennial [mɪ'lenɪəl] ef953914f342cb14bd9e488fe460c41e   第9级
    一千年的,千福年的
    参考例句:
    • Both Russia and America looked to the future to fulfill their millennial expectations. 俄国和美国都把实现他们黄金时代的希望寄托于未来。
    • The millennial generation is celebrating the global commons every day, apparently unmindful of Hardin's warning. 千禧一代显然对哈丁的警告不以为然,每天都在颂扬全球“公地”。
    2 marvelling [ˈmɑ:vəlɪŋ] 160899abf9cc48b1dc923a29d59d28b1   第7级
    v.惊奇,对…感到惊奇( marvel的现在分词 )
    参考例句:
    • \"Yes,'said the clerk, marvelling at such ignorance of a common fact. “是的,\"那人说,很奇怪她竟会不知道这么一件普通的事情。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
    • Chueh-hui watched, marvelling at how easy it was for people to forget. 觉慧默默地旁观着这一切,他也忍不住笑了。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
    3 puny [ˈpju:ni] Bt5y6   第11级
    adj.微不足道的,弱小的
    参考例句:
    • The resources at the central banks' disposal are simply too puny. 中央银行掌握的资金实在太少了。
    • Antonio was a puny lad, and not strong enough to work. 安东尼奥是个瘦小的小家伙,身体还不壮,还不能干活。
    4 sprawling [ˈsprɔ:lɪŋ] 3ff3e560ffc2f12f222ef624d5807902   第9级
    adj.蔓生的,不规则地伸展的v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的现在分词 );蔓延;杂乱无序地拓展;四肢伸展坐着(或躺着)
    参考例句:
    • He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV. 他伸开手脚坐在电视机前的一张扶手椅上。
    • a modern sprawling town 一座杂乱无序拓展的现代城镇
    5 consultants [kən'sʌltənts] c6fbb5ca6219111731f9c4c4d2675810   第7级
    顾问( consultant的名词复数 ); 高级顾问医生,会诊医生
    参考例句:
    • a firm of management consultants 管理咨询公司
    • There're many consultants in hospital. 医院里有很多会诊医生。
    6 Oxford ['ɒksfəd] Wmmz0a   第8级
    n.牛津(英国城市)
    参考例句:
    • At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford. 他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
    • This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London. 这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。
    7 prospective [prəˈspektɪv] oR7xB   第8级
    adj.预期的,未来的,前瞻性的
    参考例句:
    • The story should act as a warning to other prospective buyers. 这篇报道应该对其他潜在的购买者起到警示作用。
    • They have all these great activities for prospective freshmen. 这会举办各种各样的活动来招待未来的新人。
    8 innovative [ˈɪnəveɪtɪv] D6Vxq   第8级
    adj.革新的,新颖的,富有革新精神的
    参考例句:
    • Discover an innovative way of marketing. 发现一个创新的营销方式。
    • He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation. 他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。
    9 aspire [əˈspaɪə(r)] ANbz2   第7级
    vi.(to,after)渴望,追求,有志于
    参考例句:
    • Living together with you is what I aspire toward in my life. 和你一起生活是我一生最大的愿望。
    • I aspire to be an innovator not a follower. 我迫切希望能变成个开创者而不是跟随者。
    10 inevitable [ɪnˈevɪtəbl] 5xcyq   第7级
    adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
    参考例句:
    • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat. 玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
    • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy. 战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
    11 boredom [ˈbɔ:dəm] ynByy   第8级
    n.厌烦,厌倦,乏味,无聊
    参考例句:
    • Unemployment can drive you mad with boredom. 失业会让你无聊得发疯。
    • A walkman can relieve the boredom of running. 跑步时带着随身听就不那么乏味了。
    12 corporate [ˈkɔ:pərət] 7olzl   第7级
    adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的
    参考例句:
    • This is our corporate responsibility. 这是我们共同的责任。
    • His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail. 他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
    13 costly [ˈkɒstli] 7zXxh   第7级
    adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
    参考例句:
    • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this. 维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
    • This dictionary is very useful, only it is a bit costly. 这本词典很有用,只不过贵了些。

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