How might employees be affected by the new factory?

• A. Employees may lose all jobs immediately.
• B. Employees will only gain higher wages with no downsides.
• C. Employees may gain new job opportunities and specialist training, but also face pressure to meet technical and safety standards.
• D. Employees will experience no change in responsibilities.

Answer: (C)

When a new factory comes online, workers often gain chances to grow—new roles, more specialized tasks, and access to training to operate new equipment or systems. But along with those opportunities comes responsibility: there’s usually a push to meet higher technical requirements and stricter safety standards to ensure quality and protect workers. So the best answer reflects both the potential for new job opportunities and training, and the reality that this change brings added pressures to perform to those standards. The other scenarios are less realistic: a sudden loss of all jobs is unlikely, there isn’t typically no downside to higher pay, and a new factory almost always changes responsibilities rather than leaving them unchanged.