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Reskilling is something that sounds like a buzzword but is actually a requirement if we plan to have a future where a lot of wou

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问题         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.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.Research by the World Economic Forum finds that on average 42 percent of the "core skills" within job roles will change by 2022.That is a very short timeline, so we can only imagine what the changes will be further in the future.
        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.That does not always happen.AT&T is often given as the gold standard of a company that decided to do a massive reskilling program rather than go with a fire-and-hire strategy, ultimately retraining 18,000 employees.Prepandemic, other companies including Amazon and Disney had also pledged to create their own plans.When the skills mismatch is in the broader economy though, the focus usually turns to government to handle.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.
        With the pandemic, unemployment is very high indeed.In February, at 3.5 percent and 5.5 percent respectively, unemployment rates in Canada and the United States were at generational lows and worker shortages were everywhere.As of May, those rates had spiked up to 13.3 percent and 13.7 percent, 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.
        Of course, it is not like you can take an unemployed waiter and train him to be a doctor in few weeks, no matter who pays for it.But even if you cannot close that gap, maybe you can close others, and doing so would be to the benefit of all concerned.That seems to be the case in Sweden: when forced to furlough 90 percent of their cabin staff, Scandinavian Airline decided to start up a short retraining program that reskilled the laid-off workers to support hospital staff.The effort was a collec¬tive one and involved other companies as well as a Swedish university.
        Reskilling in this way would be challenging in a North American context.You can easily imagine a chorus of "you can’t do that" because teachers or nurses or whoever have special skills, and using any support staff who has been quickly trained is bound to end in disaster.Maybe.Or maybe it is something that can work well in Sweden, with its history of cooperation between business, labour and government, but not in North America where our history is very different.Then again, maybe it is akin to wartime, when extraordinary things take place, but it is business as usual after the fact.And yet, as in war the pandemic is teaching us that many things, including rapid reskilling, can be done if there is a will to do them.In any case, Swedens’ work force is now more skilled, in more things, and more flexible than it was before.
        Of course, reskilling programs, whether for pandemic needs or the postpandemic world, are expensive and at a time when everyone’s budgets are lean, this may not be the time to implement them.Then again, extending income support programs to get us through the next months is expen¬sive, too, to say nothing of the cost of having a swath of long-term unemployed in the POST-COVID years.Given that, perhaps we should think hard about whether the pandemic can jump-start us to a place where reskilling becomes much more than a buzzword.
AT&T is cited to show_________.
选项 A、an alternative to the fire-and-hire strategy
B、an immediate need for government support
C、the importance of staff appraisal standards
D、the characteristics of reskilling programs
答案A
解析 根据题干关键词AT&T定位到第二段第二句、第三句“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.That does not always happen”,对于个别公司来说,诱惑总是让那些技能不再受欢迎的员工离开,取而代之的是那些技能受欢迎的员工。这种情况并不总是发生。不是所有公司采用解雇雇佣政策。AT&T 是一个例子,他们采用了大规模恢复工作作为解雇雇佣政策的替代品,所以下面举出AT&T的例子印证了并不是所有公司都会选择辞退工人，A项“解雇雇佣政策以外的其他选择”与文章表述一致,故选A。B项“迫切需要政府支持”，AT&T例子所支持的观点与政府并无关联,故B项错误。C项“评估标准的重要性”, AT&T例子所支持的观点并未提及评估标准,故C项错误。D项“再培训项目的特征”，虽然AT&T例子是印证再培训项目的实例,但是文中并未提及其特征,故D项错误。
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