According to a survey carried out by Watson Wyatt, a consulting firm, three-quarters of American companies have implemented a hiring freeze.

而根据华信惠悦咨询公司的调查报告，四分之三的美国公司已经采取了冻结招聘的策略。

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For one thing, more than half (54%) of companies that froze salaries in 2009 are planning a thaw over the next few months, according to a poll by compensation consultants Watson Wyatt.

首先是，由薪酬咨询顾问公司Watson Wyatt做出的一份民意调查结果显示，有超过一半的公司(占54%)计划在接下来的几个月内解冻2009年冻结的薪资。

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According to Watson Wyatt, the average cost of running a pension fund has increased by 50% over the past five years.

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According to Watson Wyatt, an actuarial consultancy, over half of major private-sector employers reviewing their final-salary schemes in the past five years have closed them to new members.

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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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