日本为强制加班族休假而创建全国性假日.pptx

Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,1/1/2015,#,Around this time each year,millions of Americans are enjoying a three-day weekend heading into Memorial Day.,数以百万计的美国人每年都会享受三天的美国阵亡将士纪念日（,Memeorial Da,ay,）假期。,Its one of just 10 national holidays for a country that prides itself on a world-renowned work ethic.,这是美国为数不多的,10,个全国性假日中的一个。美国一向以闻名世界的职业道德而自豪。,But in Japan,the countrys government just unveiled their 16th national holiday.So,is Japan a holiday happy nation compared to its American counte,rparts?Not exactly.,在日本政府刚刚公布了第,16,个全国性假期。那么日本人是否和美国人一样享受他们的假期呢？不见得。,Officially beginning on August 11 2016,“Mountain Day”was ostensibly created to,recognize Japans culturally significant mountainous regions.But The Diplomat reports that the holiday was actually most likely created to put a dent,in Japans“overworked”population that largely refuses to use its government protected vacation time.A recent Wall Street Journal claims that the a,verage Japanese worker only uses 8.6 of their paid vacation days each year.,从,2016,年,8,月,11,日正式开始实行的“游山日”假期表面上为了让人们意识到日本山区的重要文化意义。但,外交家,网站报道称，实际上，这个假期创建的最有可,能的原因是为了减少日本的“加班”人口，因为这些人大多数都不愿使用受日本政府保护的休假时间。据,华尔街日报,最近报道，平均一个日本员工每年只使用,8.6,天带薪假期。,In Japan,there is of course paid vacation,but people dont tak,e it,I hope with Mountain,Day,people will be able to take more of their vacation.“,在日本，肯定有带薪休假，但人们都不休假，”日本自由民主党成员,Seishiro Eto,对,华尔街日报,说道。“他希望山一天，人们将能够更大程度地利用他们的假期。”自由民主党支,持新设立的假期。,By comparison,workers in the US use an average of 10 of their 14 paid vacation days each year.However,a 2013“Vacation Deprivation Study”,says that still amounts to a staggering 577,212,000 unused annual vacation days in the US.,相比之下，美国工人每年平均使用,10,天带薪休假（共,14,天）。不过，根据,E,的,2013,年“假期剥夺研究”,，仍然有多达,5.7亿多美国人未使用年假。,And the workaholic approach may not even be as effective as some think.After all,French workers have the largest amount of guar,anteed time off of any major industrialized nation yet their worker productivity is also amongst the worlds highest.,工作狂的工作方法可能并不像某些人认为的那样有效。要知道，法国工人,拥有的假期比任何其他工业化大国的工人都多，但他们的生产力也是全世界遥遥领先的。“,When you have a longer working day,at some point because youre becoming tired,it decreases your productivi,ty,”French economist Renaud Bourls told BusinessWeek.“,当你工作时间过长时，到了一定时间点你会变得很累，从而你的工作效率也会下降，”法国经济学家,RenaudBourls,在,商业周刊,的文章中说道。,Nonetheless,mandator,y vacation days may not be a perfect solution.The Diplomat notes that mandatory holidays can create headaches for a workforce all taking the day off,together.In theory,when employees voluntarily choose their vacation days the dip in the workforce is more evenly distributed over the year.But when,everyone is taking the same national holidays cities are left with congested roads and overbooked flights during what is meant as a window of relaxat,ion.,尽管如此，强制性休假可能不是一个完美的解决方案。,外交家,文章指出，让所有员工强制休假也会引发一些让人头痛的问题。从理论上来看，如果让雇员自愿选择休假日期，就能保证劳动力总量在一年内不会产生较大波动。但是，如果每个人都在全国性假期休假，城市道路将会拥堵，超额预订的航班也会让本应放松的假期变,得不轻松。,In the US 77 percent of all private companies offer paid vacation and holidays although federal law does not require them to do so.Thats still,better than Japan,where most workers are not paid for their mandatory holiday days off.,在美国，,77%,的私人企业里提供带薪假期，尽管联邦法律不要求他们这样做。这仍比日本好一些，日本的大多数工人在强制性假期内都,没有薪水。,The concept of being overworked is so prevalent in Japan that the country has its own word for people who die of heart attacks and other ailment,s directly attributed to excessive labor Karoshi.The word literally translates to mean“death from over work.”,在日本，加班的概念深入人心，日本有一个自创的词汇用于指代死于心脏病和其他,由过度工作引发的疾病,Karoshi,（过劳死）。这个词从字面翻译，意思是“工作过多而死亡”。,In recent years,Karoshi has broadened its meaning to include Japanese“salarymen”who commit suicide,as a result of the emotional distress from working too much and under uncertain conditions.A 2012 Pulitzer Center investigation outlined a scenario t,hat might sound unsettlingly familiar to many American workers:,近年来，过劳死意思更为广泛，包括日本“上班族”（,salarymen,）由于工作过多或工作条件不稳定因情绪困扰而自杀。,2012,年普利策中心调查提到了一个让许多美国工人似曾相识的,杰森英语,杰森英语官网,杰森英语怎么样,编辑,:yingyu,