不久前,美国大多数人每周工作40小时,每年工作50周。然而,这种传统型工作却越来越少,因为现在是一个机构减员、企业重组、雇用外工以及非全日工的时代。这种非固定型劳动队伍的出现意味着传统工作——员工和雇主之间有着长期雇用关系的工作——将很快过时了吗?或许不会的!尽管传统型工作同过去相比可能会减少许多。然而,这种向灵活多变发展的趋势正在引导我们去重新界定“工作”一词。人们越来越强烈地认识到:工作是一种商约,人们以各种不同方式将自己的劳务卖给雇主。这种商约常常以临时员工身份开始,到后来才被晋升到全日制员工的职 Not too long ago, most people in the United States worked 40 hours a week and worked 50 weeks a year. However, this type of traditional work has become less and less because it is now an era of institutional staff reduction, corporate restructuring, hiring of foreign workers and part-time workers. Does the emergence of this type of non-fixed workforce mean that traditional work - a long-term employment relationship between employees and employers - will soon become obsolete? Maybe not! Even though traditional work may be compared with the past Reduce much. However, this trend toward flexibility is leading us to redefine the term “work”. People are increasingly aware that work is a kind of contract and people sell their labors to employers in various ways. Such contracts are often started as temporary employees and later promoted to full-time employees.