The answer would be 18 months as a bare minimum, unless the company gets acquired/merged/does lay offs.
答案是18个月，这是最低限度，除非公司被收购/合并/进行裁员。
Fortunately, a diploma gives you the upper hand when it comes to economy-driven lay offs.
庆幸的是，一份文凭能在经济萧条裁员时期帮你一把。
In the past few months big games publishers have announced lay-offs, losses and the cancellation of many titles.
过去的几个月内，几大游戏开发商相继宣布裁员，公布损失以及取消了多项开发计划。
Business groups complain that such an increase-a 50% raise, on average-is impractical and would trigger lay-offs.
商业团队抱怨说这么大幅度的增加——平均下来提高50%——不合实际，会引起裁员。
As in Germany, that process could be slow and rely more on hiring freezes than lay-offs, says Julian Callow at Barclays Capital.
英国巴克莱投资银行的朱利安·卡洛说，在德国缩减差距的过程会相对缓慢，公司会更依赖于雇佣冻结而不是裁员。
But last year was the "worst year ever for law-firm lay-offs", reckons law Shucks, a legal-industry blog.
据法律行业博客Law Shucks描述：去年是律师事务所裁员最惨烈的一年。
Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's governor, and leaders in the state Assembly began negotiations about the now inevitable lay-offs and spending cuts.
加州州长ArnoldSchwarzenegger与州议会领导人开始就目前不可避免地裁员和削减支出进行商议。
Prestigious firms face lay-offs, collapse and other indignities.
久负盛名的律所现在也面临裁员、倒闭和其它一些颜面无光的事。
They threatened the workers with massive lay-offs.
他们以大规模解雇来威胁工人。
RIM described the lay-offs on Monday as "a prudent and necessary step for the long term success of the company", following an extended period of rapid growth.
周一，RIM将裁员形容为，在经历了很长一段时间的快速增长之后，“为实现公司长远的成功而采取的一项审慎而必要的措施”。
If you put that in the context of the number of migrant workers in China - which is usually estimated at 130 million - that gives you some idea of the scale of the lay-offs at the moment.
中国流动工人的总数是1亿3千万人。在这样背景下，你就会对当前员工解雇的规模有点概念了。
Gloria: I've gone through the entire plan again, and I'm sure the impact will be minimal, since we're not planning large-scale firings or lay-offs.
我把整个计划又理了一遍。我肯定这次重组带来的振荡会很小。因为我们没有大规模的解雇或裁员计划。
Mr Prince yesterday declined to comment on forthcoming lay-offs at the US banking giant.
普林斯昨日拒绝就这家美国银行业巨头即将进行的裁员置评。
But he expects the situation to get even worse over the next few years, with more closures and job losses, as well as temporary lay-offs under a national scheme to help firms in difficulty.
他还预计在将来几年中情况会变得更糟，将会有更多的公司关闭、更多人失业，还会有多次临时性裁员，这是意在帮助公司度过难关的一个全国性计划的一部分。
News of 160 lay-offs had sent tremors through the community.
裁员160人的消息在社区中引起了波动。
Multinationals such as American Express and Motorola have announced lay-offs in India.
许多跨国企业，比如美国运通和摩托罗拉，在印度已经开始裁员。
To cut costs, Luochuan has closed down nearly half of its 320 primary and middle schools since 2003, resulting in lay-offs for more than 700 teachers and forcing many more children to board.
为减少成本，自2003年起洛川县320所小学和中学关闭了将近一半，致使700多名教师下岗，迫使更多的学生寄宿学校。
Reduced global demand for exports and higher input costs, including wages, point to a deceleration in corporate earnings growth and quite possibly lay-offs too.
全球出口需求下降，输入成本上升(包括薪资在内)，意味着公司收益增速下滑，而且很可能还会裁员。
He also highlighted his recent votes in favour of extending unemployment benefits and providing grants to states to avoid lay-offs of teachers, policemen and the like.
他同时也强调，他最近投票支持提高失业津贴，为各州提供补助金以避免老师，警察以及诸如此类的人失业。
Deep cuts like these may be painful in the short-term, but they are better both for profits and morale than repeated rounds of small lay-offs.
像这些大幅度削减短期内可能很痛苦，但与持续数轮的小规模裁员相比，这对利润和士气总归要好些。
They include a two-year ban on lay-offs and the creation of a 100m-rand fund to nurture local suppliers—concessions that had already been agreed to.
按照约定，沃尔玛两年内不得裁减员工，沃尔玛要创立一个1亿兰特的基金培育当地的供应商，这些让步条款已经获得批准。
These mass lay-offs, it might be hypothesised, are more like natural catastrophes, such as famines, than isolated accidents that cause a few people to fall on hard times.
从假设上来说，这些大型解雇事件，与影响少数人的事故比起来，更像是饥荒之类的自然灾害。
The two firms and Qwest, America’s third-biggest landline operator, have already shed thousands of jobs and announced further lay-offs to cut costs.
这两家公司，再加上Qwest——美国第三大固定电话运营商，它们一共已经裁掉了数千个职位，而且公布了进一步的裁员计划已缩减开支。
The two firms and Qwest, America's third-biggest landline operator, have already shed thousands of jobs and announced further lay-offs to cut costs.
这两家公司，再加上Qwest——美国第三大固定电话运营商，它们一共已经裁掉了数千个职位，而且公布了进一步的裁员计划已缩减开支。
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