In Bartleby's experience, the reason people use unclear language is that they have nothing clear to say.

根据巴托比的经验，人们之所以使用含糊不清的语言，是因为他们没有清晰的语言可以表达。

Bartleby's law is that 80% of the time of 80% of the people at meetings is wasted.

根据巴托比定律，参加会议的80%的人80%的时间都浪费了。

This Bartleby's analysis of British data similarly shows that job quality in the manufacturing sector is no better than average.

笔者对英国数据的分析同样表明，制造业的工作质量并不高于平均水平。

Sadly, in Bartleby's experience, an inventive manager could describe almost all meetings as conforming to at least one of these criteria.

遗憾的是，根据巴特比的经验，一个有创造力的经理可以将几乎所有的会议描述为至少符合其中一个标准。

Long-time readers may recall Bartleby's law: 80% of the time of 80% of the people in meetings is wasted.

80%的人在开会上浪费了80%的时间。

Hardly anyone keeps them, of course, but in the spirit of optimism, here are Bartleby's eight suggestions for what managers ought to resolve to do in 2020.

当然，几乎没有人会一直做到，但本着乐观的精神，以下是巴特比对经理人在2020年应该决心做什么提出的八条建议。