To make matters worse, the government has also been downsizing. The result is that virtually everyone--whether from large multinational firms or small enterprises, white-collar or blue-collar workers, senior specialists or low skilled laborers, from private firms or from the civil service (long reputed to be the safest of careers) --now lives under the shadow of an unexpected change in career path.
雪上加霜的是，連政府也在精簡人事，以致不管是跨國大企業還是中小型企業，不管是白領還是藍領，不管是資深專業主管還是無技術體力工人，甚至不管是私人企業還是一向被認定為鐵飯碗的公家單位，都籠罩在換職的浪潮陰影下。