34. Should businesses hire employees for their entire lives?
Businesses should hire employees for their entire lives. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons
and examples to support your answer.
『分析』
不同意比较好写一些。Entire是一个过于绝对的修饰词。
雇用人员的原则是：The employees should be able to create more than they are paid.
但是，The business also has responsibility to support those old employees, especially when they have contributed
a lot to the business.
『范文』
The decision to hire an employee for life is a serious commitment on the part of both parties. For the
employee, such an arrangement means lifetime job security. From the perspective of an employer, however, the
deal is not so sweet. Guaranteed lifetime employment, or tenure, at a company, can promote bad work habits,
prevent innovation, and lead to potentially disastrous personnel problems.
When a workers' employment is contingent upon their job performance, they will tend to work diligently. On
the other hand, if workers know that no matter how hard they work, they will receive the same amount of money
and have no chance of being fired, there are no incentives for them to work. For people to be model workers they
need compelling reasons to work hard and produce work of the highest quality. A tenure-system promotes laziness,
inefficiency and low-quality work because it fails to offer incentives for good work, and fails to offer compelling
deterrents against bad work.
Secondly, companies that offer lifetime positions to employees cannot adapt to a rapidly changing world. For
instance, if an employee who was hired by a company twenty years ago might be too old to effectively learn new
computer-related skills. In today's modern office environment, companies that cannot make effective use of new
technology are at a severe disadvantage to those that can. In this case, a company that does not have the freedom to
restructure, hiring and firing employees, in accordance with shifting demands is likely to fail. A company that
provides its employees with tenure effectively locks out new blood and runs the risk of being paralyzed by a staff
unable to change with the times.
Finally, offering tenure to employees is a major risk because of unforeseeable personnel problems. Every
office, no matter how well managed, is bound to have personality conflicts. In many cases, personality conflicts
can lead to one of the feuding parties leaving the company. But if the conflict involves two tenured employees, the
business might be seriously affected, even destroyed. Despite the uncertainty it brings to workers lives, the
company must look out for its own best interests first and not allow this disastrous situation to occur by not
instituting a tenure policy.
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