Important Vocabulary

• Job insecurity: The fear that you might lose your job
• Tenure: The period of holding a job
• Employability: The extent to which a person has skills that employers want
• Downsizing: Decreasing the number of permanent employees
• Agency employment: Temporary jobs in companies, arranged by employment agencies
• Core: The central part of something (e.g. a company’s workforce)
• Rhetoric: A language used to persuade people to believe something
• Received wisdom: Generally held beliefs (that are probably false)

Extracted From

MacKenzie, I. (2002). English for Business Studies: A course for Business Studies and Economics students (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.