Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a human-resources consultancy, says the proportion of American employers implementing either wage cuts or furloughs has risen sharply since October (see chart 1).

华信惠悦人力资源咨询公司表示，在美国，雇主实施减薪或无薪休假的比率从去年10月开始急剧上升(见表1)。

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Other firms with double roles as gatekeepers and as advisers to stock pickers include Watson Wyatt Worldwide and Wilshire Associates.

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Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a human-resources consultancy, says the proportion of American employers implementing either wage cuts or furloughs has risen sharply since October (see chart 1).

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Eighteen percent of the 1, 000 big companies with defined benefit plans had, as of last December, frozen at least one of their plans, with the majority of those freezes occurring in 2004 or 2005, according to consultants Watson Wyatt Worldwide.

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