Ms. Watanabe’s story helps to illustrate a remarkable disparity. While productivity in Japanese factories is the highest in the world, owing to robots and other types of automation, the productivity of Japan’s white-collar workers is the lowest among OECD countries.
渡边小姐的故事有助于说明令人注目的不平等。尽管归功于机器人和其他形式的自动化，日本工厂的生产率是世界之最，但日本白领员工的生产率在经合组织国家中垫底。