美調查：半數僱員擔心“飯碗”不保

Nearly half the U.S workers polled in a survey released on Tuesday said they were worried their jobs are at risk amid the current economic crisis.

With job fears in mind, 25 percent said they were scanning help-wanted ads or updating their resumes, according to the survey commissioned by Workplace Options, a provider of work-life employee benefits based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Forty-seven percent of respondents said news of the financial crisis made them fear for their jobs, the survey said, and 53 percent said they were not concerned about their job security.

The same number, 53 percent, said they were cutting back on spending due to concerns about the financial crisis.

The survey was the first about job security in the current economic crisis commissioned by the company.

New York City could lose as many as 165,000 jobs over the next two years as the financial meltdown ripples beyond Wall Street, according to a new economic forecast made public this week.

The forecast of 165,000 lost jobs includes the prediction that as many as 35,000 could be lost in the financial services industry.

The nationwide survey was conducted by Public Policy Polling on September 26 and 27. It polled 452 working adults in the United States and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.

本週二公佈的一項調查顯示，近一半的美國員工稱他們擔心眼下的經濟危機會危及到自己的工作。

在擔心失業的受訪者中，25%的人稱他們正在關注招聘信息或修改自己的簡歷。該調查是由位於北卡羅來納州羅利市的“職場選擇”公司委託開展的，“職場選擇”公司主要爲企業僱員提供“工作-生活”規劃和職業發展方面的諮詢。

調查顯示，47%的受訪者稱鋪天蓋地的金融危機新聞讓他們擔心自己會失業，53%的人則表示並不擔心自己的“飯碗”問題。

另有53%的人稱他們爲了應對金融危機而縮減了開支。

這是經濟危機以來“職場選擇”公司委託開展的首個關於職業安全感的調查。

據本週發佈的一項最新經濟預測報告稱，受華爾街金融危機的波及，紐約的就業機會在今後兩年內可能會減少16.5萬個。

其中金融業的就業機會預計將減少3.5萬個。

這項由“公共政策調查”機構開展的全國性調查於上月26日和27日進行，共有452名僱員參與。該調查的誤差幅度爲正負3.7%。