The disease has ushered in a profound change in white-collar working patterns.

疾病让白领工作模式发生了深刻的变化。

Looking ahead, is the working pattern gonna stabilise at three days a week in a year or five years?

展望未来， 工作模式会在一年或五年内稳定在每周三天吗？

Beth Emma describes the current working patterns using the word, presenteeism – staying at work longer than usual, or going to work when you're ill, to show that you work hard.

贝丝·艾玛 (Beth Emma) 用“出勤主义”这个词来描述当前的工作模式——比平时工作时间更长，或者生病时继续工作，以表明你工作努力。

Although banks did not balloon quite as much as tech firms during the covid-19 pandemic, when online activity surged and working patterns seemed ready to change for good, the axe is cutting almost as deep in places.

尽管在新冠肺炎大流行期间，当网络活动激增、工作模式似乎准备好永久改变时，银行并没有像科技公司那样膨胀，但在一些地方，裁员的力度几乎和科技行业一样大。