Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn.

技术工人依其受教育程度和学习能力而获得相应的报酬。

And we need to communicate this message to those knowledge workers and college workers.

我们需要把这个信息传达给那些知识劳动者和在大学里工作的人。

Knowledge workers engage in mind work. They deal with symbols: words, figures and data. What does all this mean for you?

技工从事的是智力劳动，他们工作中涉及到的是符号、文字、图像和数据。对你来说，意味着什么呢？

As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing, as well as exchanging information.

作为一个未来的技术工人，人们期待你从事信息的生产、加工和交换。

We think that's the knowledge worker of tomorrow, and there are over 11 million college students in America alone.

我们认为他们就是未来的知识劳动者，仅在美国就有超过1100万名大学生。

The knowledge worker, therefore, must do something which a manual worker need not do. He must provide effectiveness.

因此，知识工作者不得不做一些体力劳动者从来不需要做的事情，知识工作者必须讲工作效率。

Knowledge workers engage in mind work.

知识工作者从事脑力工作。

And productivity for the knowledge worker means the ability to get the right things done. It means effectiveness.

知识工作者的生产率实际上就是他们做好应该去做的事情的能力。这也就是他们的工作效益。

The method and meticulousness entrenched in the legal style of thought has something to teach other knowledge workers and their managers.

法律思维方式中根深蒂固的条理性和细致性能教给其他知识工作者及其管理者一些道理。

Today, knowledge workers are facing a big challenge.

今天，知识工作者面临着巨大的挑战。

One can indeed never be sure what the knowledge worker thinks—and yet thinking is his specific work; it is his " doing."

说实在的，我们对知识工作者正在考虑什么很难弄得清楚——然而，考虑问题就是他们要做的工作；他们就是以这种方式来进行工作的。

And everyday interactions between knowledge workers resulted in the spread of useful ideas from company to company.

每天知识工作者之间的互动导致了有用的想法在公司之间的传播。

Romanticisation of work seems to be an especially common practise among " knowledge workers" in the middle and upper classes.

工作浪漫化似乎是中上层“知识工作者” 中特别普遍的做法。

Mr Butterfield says that Slack could achieve 10 billion in revenue if it signs up 100m knowledge workers, of which there are around 850m worldwide.

巴特菲尔德表示，假如全球约8.5亿的知识型劳动者中有一亿成为Slack的付费用户，那么公司的年收入将达到100亿美元。

Other companies are trying a five-hour work day, claiming that knowledge workers like programmers, writers and scientists can only concentrate hard for about that long every day.

其他公司正在试行一天工作五个小时，他们认为知识工人（包括程序员、作家和科学家）每天只能集中精力工作五个小时左右。

Without the ability to take moderately cheap rides around town, many knowledge workers might go remote, leaving cities with lower tax revenues.

没有能够以相对便宜的价格在城市内乘坐的能力，许多知识工作者可能会选择远程工作，导致城市税收下降。

Apart from a few nurses, there were only cleaning women, cooks, and maids. The physician was the knowledge worker, with the nurse as his aide.

在过去．除了几个护士外，医院只雇用清洁工、厨师及侍女。只有医生是知识工作者，而护士便是他们的助手。

The knowledge worker does not produce something that is effective by itself. He does not produce a physical product —a ditch, a pair of shoes, a machine part.

知识工作者的成果本身并不产生效益。他们并不生产有形的产品，比如一双鞋或某个机器部件。

And I think what you're going to find is more and more work, particularly from knowledge workers, is going to be done anywhere, anytime.

而且我认为你会发现越来越多的工作，尤其是来自知识工作者的工作， 将随时随地完成。

Education is the one area, therefore, in which the richest of all societies, the United States, has a genuine advantage— provided it can make the knowledge worker productive.

因此，教育便是美国这一世界上最富裕的国家所拥有的一项真正的优势。当然这一优势能否得到充分发挥，还取决于知识工作者的工作是否富于成效。