原來(lái)聽(tīng)人說(shuō)過(guò)，有些公司為了減少支出，會(huì)選擇跟有資歷的老員工解約，然后聘用工資要求更低的年輕員工。

在公司里，有資歷的老員工都屬于senior，而新來(lái)的年輕員工資歷尚淺，只能算是junior。

但是，最近的趨勢(shì)是，不少公司都開(kāi)始采用這樣的策略，用junior級(jí)別的員工來(lái)取代senior員工。由此還出現(xiàn)了一個(gè)新的詞匯juniorization。

The “juniorization” is a phenomenon commonly seen in many businesses these days, where older/senior workers are being swiftly replaced by younger ones, all in the name of saving money.
“年輕化”是近期在很多行業(yè)都普遍出現(xiàn)的一種現(xiàn)象，即以節(jié)省開(kāi)支的名義用年輕員工取代有資歷的老員工。

Recently, the focus on juniorization has increased as Wall Street banks began implementing it as a risky strategy to lower operating costs.
最近，隨著華爾街的銀行們也開(kāi)始實(shí)行這一策略來(lái)降低運(yùn)營(yíng)成本，人們對(duì)“年輕化”這一現(xiàn)象的關(guān)注也開(kāi)始增多。

The chief executive at the investment-banking unit of a large firm explained this in simple terms: Headcount had stayed pretty stable at his firm, he said, but the makeup of that headcount had changed.
某集團(tuán)投行的首席執(zhí)行官是這樣解釋這一現(xiàn)象的：他們公司的員工總數(shù)基本保持穩(wěn)定，但是員工的構(gòu)成情況有所變化。

His bank had decided that it had too many expensive managing directors in some parts of its sales and trading business.
他所在的銀行認(rèn)為，他們某些銷(xiāo)售和交易部門(mén)的高薪總經(jīng)理人數(shù)過(guò)多。

Give junior employees better technology, he said, and they offered just as much value as a managing director would have in days gone by.
他表示，為年輕員工提供更好的技術(shù)的話(huà)，他們創(chuàng)造的價(jià)值就會(huì)跟一位總經(jīng)理過(guò)去創(chuàng)造的價(jià)值一樣多。

In other words, you don't need to pay an older trader or salesperson $1 million a year for experience and market savvy when you can give a junior trader some technology and the same knowledge at the end of a keyboard and mouse.
換句話(huà)說(shuō)，年輕交易員在有了技術(shù)和相同的交易知識(shí)后就能辦到的事情，你就不必一年花一百萬(wàn)美元養(yǎng)一個(gè)資深的交易員或者銷(xiāo)售員。

同時(shí)，也有人表示，隨著各類(lèi)技術(shù)進(jìn)入工作領(lǐng)域，年紀(jì)略大的員工在使用新技術(shù)方面也顯得有些吃力。為了提高工作效率，雇傭更多年輕員工也是明智的選擇。

不過(guò)，有反對(duì)人士稱(chēng)，員工隊(duì)伍重要的是多樣化（diversity），不光要講性別、種族等方面的多樣化，在年齡構(gòu)成上也要多樣化。年長(zhǎng)的員工憑借豐富的經(jīng)驗(yàn)指導(dǎo)年輕的員工，他們才會(huì)成長(zhǎng)得更快。

小編認(rèn)為，年齡增長(zhǎng)是自然規(guī)律，誰(shuí)也不能避免。但是，只要堅(jiān)持學(xué)習(xí)，勇于接受和嘗試新知識(shí)、新技能，就不會(huì)被淘汰。

（中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 Helen）