Overtime or not? Make up your own mind!

When it comes to overtime, everyone has something to say. Many people hate overtime, and of course there are people who like to work overtime. Hehe, and in recent years, with the great development of the mobile Internet industry, a corporate culture of overtime has emerged as the times require. , Internet companies represented by BAT are popular with 996 working hours, pushing this overtime culture to the extreme. So should you work overtime? How do we deal with overtime?

Regarding the issue of overtime, the author suggests that we can look at it from the following perspectives:

First, what is overtime for?

If it is really because the work task is heavy, or the task time is urgent and needs to work overtime to complete, such overtime work is understandable; however, some companies have a strange corporate culture, such as everyone's work is not very busy, but no one is after work. Go, because the boss didn't go, so the department leaders didn't dare to go, so the ordinary employees didn't dare to go. Everyone was working there, but they didn't go home. Obviously, this kind of overtime is meaningless.

Second, is overtime worthwhile?

There are two meanings here, one is that overtime is valuable to the company, that is to say, through overtime work has indeed completed some important work, solved a problem that needs to be solved urgently, and increased or created benefits for the company; the other layer It is that overtime is valuable to individuals, that is to say, through overtime work, individuals learn more useful knowledge, improve their professional skills, and make themselves grow at work.

Third, is overtime short-term or long-term?

Short-term overtime for the sake of work progress is completely acceptable. After all, as a member of the company, it is okay to sacrifice some of your time for the development of the company; Not only do employees lose a lot of time to spend with their families, but also their desire to use their private time for personal learning and growth has come to naught, and may even damage their own health due to long-term overtime.

In short, in the workplace, as long as you are healthy, occasional overtime is acceptable, but we also need to think about whether our overtime is valuable? !