联合国国际劳工组织最新发布的报告显示，在2020年新冠疫情引发全球危机后，全球劳动力市场遭受了巨大影响，损失了相当于2.25亿个全职工作岗位。目前劳动力市场正在实现初步复苏，但前景依旧高度不确定。

 

The pandemic caused an "unprecedented¹" hit to the global economy last year, destroying the equivalent of 225 million full-time² jobs, the United Nations has said.

联合国相关机构发布报告称，去年的新冠疫情对全球经济造成了“前所未有”的打击，全球损失了相当于2.25亿个全职工作岗位。

 

The crisis caused an 8.8% drop in working hours - four times more than followed the 2008 financial crisis.

新冠疫情导致全球工作时间减少了8.8%，是2008年金融危机造成损失的四倍多。

 

The UN said looking at job cuts alone "drastically" understated the damage.

联合国相关机构表示，仅考虑裁员会“大幅”低估损失。

 

It also warned that recovery remains³ uncertain, despite hope that vaccines⁵ will spur an economic rebound⁶.

该机构还警告说，尽管疫苗有望刺激经济反弹，但全球经济复苏仍充满不确定性。

 

Working hours in 2021 are likely to remain more than 3% lower than they were in 2019 - roughly the equivalent of 90 million full-time jobs, predicts the report, by the UN's International Labor⁷ Organization (ILO).

这份由联合国国际劳工组织发布的报告预测，2021年的工作时间可能仍将比2019年减少3%以上，大约相当于9000万个全职工作岗位。

 

But it cautioned that the downturn could be worse, if vaccine⁴ distribution is slow and global governments do not provide the economic stimulus⁸ expected.

但报告警告说，如果疫苗分发缓慢，而且全球各国政府没有提供预期的经济刺激，工作时间的减少幅度可能更大。

 

"The signs of recovery we see are encouraging, but they are fragile and highly uncertain, and we must remember that no country or group can recover alone," said ILO's director-general Guy Ryder.

国际劳工组织总干事盖伊•赖德说：“我们看到的复苏迹象令人鼓舞，但它们很脆弱，且非常不确定。我们必须记住，没有任何国家或团体能够单独复苏。”

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