经济衰退让老板和员工走得更近

    Few bosses need worry that their employees（员工雇员） want their jobs as most workers are just happy to be employed and one fifth would even have a fling with their boss if it helped their career, according to a US survey.
    The US recession（经济衰退） has driven bosses and their employees closer together and only 30 percent of employees want their boss's stressful job, recruitment firm Adecco Staffing US found in a poll tied to National Boss Day in mid-October.
    But the survey found that some people are willing to go to greater lengths to keep their jobs in a tough market.
    Almost one in five said they would have a fling with their boss if it would help their career and a similar number share connections with their boss through social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn.
    Employees with children aged¹ 18 or under at home are more likely (39 percent vs. 23 percent) to want their boss's job to help pay for education and other costs.
    With unemployment brushing up against 10 percent, those still working "feel like they were the chosen ones, like they got a vote of confidence from their boss that they're good enough to be retained," said David Adams, Adecco Group North America vice² president of learning and development in Seattle.
    That, and the smaller number of employees in many departments, strengthened（加强） ties between employees and bosses.
    "Recession tested people's values and many realize that it's not all about work," said Adams, adding that workers saw peers climb the corporate³ ladder only to be laid off.
    More than three-quarters of bosses said they felt stronger bonds to their employees than three years ago, and 61 percent of the employees agreed.
    This may not change any time soon, even though the private-sector National Bureau of Economic Research last month called the recession over as of June 2009.
    "Although it's technically⁴ over, nobody feels that it is over," said Adams.（本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑）

1 aged   

adj.年老的，陈年的

参考例句：

• He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
• He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。

2 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

3 corporate   

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。

4 technically   

adv.专门地，技术上地

参考例句：

• Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
• The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。