翻译练习：Meet The New Boss（3）

CEO：巨变

(6)Meanwhile the boundaries of the firm, and the CEO's authority, are blurring. Uber's 4m drivers are not employees and neither are the millions of workers in Apple's supply chain, but they are mission-critical. Big firms spent $32bn last year on cloud services from a few powerful vendors. Factories and offices have billions of sensors pumping sensitive information to suppliers and customers. Middle-managers talk business on social media.

与此同时，公司的边界与CEO的权力开始变得模糊了。优步的400万司机根本不是他们的员工，苹果供应链的数百万工人同样也不是，但是他们却是至关重要。大公司们去年共花了320亿美元从几家有实力的供应商购买云服务。工厂和办公室有数十个传感器来为供应商与客户提供敏感数据。中层们在社交媒体上讨论生意。

CEO：搬家的苦恼

(7)Even as CEOs' authority is being redefined, a shift is under way in where firms operate. Generations of bosses have obeyed the call to "go global". But in the past decade the profitability of multinational investment abroad has soured, so that returns on capital are a puny 7%. Trade tensions mean that CEOs face the prospect of repatriating activity or redesigning supply chains. Most have only just begun to grapple with this.

正当CEO的权力被重新定义时，对公司运营的地点也正在进行转变。几代老板都听从了“走向全球”的号召。但是过去十年里，跨国投资的盈利能力令人很不开心，资本回报率只有可怜的7%。各国紧张的贸易关系意味着CEO面临将商业活动搬回国内或重新设计供应链的前景。绝大部分CEO们才刚开始苦思其解决之道。

CEO：压力来自各方

(8)The last change is over the purpose of the firm. The orthodoxy has been that they operate in the interests of their owners. But pressure is coming from above, as politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren call on CEOs to favour staff, suppliers and clients more; and from below, as both customers and young workers demand that firms take a stand on social issues. Alphabet has faced rolling staff protests.

最后在转变的是公司的宗旨。按照正统的观点认为，公司应该服务于他们的所有者的利益。不过压力正在从上面（政策）而来，像伯尼・桑德斯和伊丽莎白・沃伦等政治家呼吁CEO们更多考虑员工，供应商与客户；而下面也同样有压力压向CEO们，客户和年轻员工都要求公司在社会问题上表明立场。字符表公司就曾经遭遇过员工不断的抗议。