Youzan CEO Bai Ya responded to the 996 work system: This is definitely a good thing! 'No, it's a bad thing! '
- If you don't have time to live, how can you "enjoy" your work?
Recently, the CEO of Youzan announced at the annual meeting that the new year will implement the 996 work system, that is, the working hours are from 9:30 to 9:00 pm every day. In case of urgent projects, they will work 6 days a week, and the working hours will be longer every day. , as soon as the news came out, it caused a heated discussion among netizens on the Internet:
Youzan CEO Bai Ya responded to the 996 work system: This is definitely a good thing! "No, it's a bad thing!"
Netizen A: A company that squeezes employees infinitely will not go far. I wish it close down soon.
Youzan CEO Bai Ya responded to the 996 work system: This is definitely a good thing! "No, it's a bad thing!"
Netizen B: My former company also enforced 996. In fact, it is forcing you to resign. After you submit the resignation report, you can leave work normally without having to go to 996.
Youzan CEO Bai Ya responded to the 996 work system: This is definitely a good thing! "No, it's a bad thing!"
Some netizens said that Youzan blatantly violated labor laws,
Check the "Labor Law of the People's Republic of China" as follows:
Article 36 The state implements a working hour system in which laborers work no more than eight hours a day and an average weekly working time of no more than 44 hours.
Article 41 Due to the needs of production and operation, the employer may extend the working hours after consultation with the trade union and the laborers, generally not exceeding one hour per day; if the working hours need to be extended due to special reasons, the conditions for ensuring the health of the laborers shall be met. The extended working hours shall not exceed three hours per day, but not more than thirty-six hours per month.
Article 43 Employers may not extend workers' working hours in violation of the provisions of this Law.
According to the Youzan 996 work system, if you work 11.5 hours a day, then you work 69 hours a week, far exceeding the 44-hour work system. Moreover, these are normal working hours, not special needs. Even if you include special needs to extend working hours, Also exceeded 0.5 hours.
How do you balance work and life after working so long?
Immediately, the management responded: "The wife and children can't take care of it, and you can divorce." It's quite thoughtful, and even the rhetoric has been thought out, no wonder it caused widespread public anger:
Youzan CEO Bai Ya responded to the 996 work system: This is definitely a good thing! "No, it's a bad thing!"
The CEO Bai Ya also constantly emphasizes the need to "enjoy" work. In Youzan, work and life are inseparable. If there is a problem, even after get off work, he will find you. If you can't find it, you will be welcome.
However, after working for such a long time, the rest time may be interrupted at any time, and still "enjoy" work? What an international joke?
The 996 working system is not a good thing, but a bad thing!
I remember Roy Baumeister, an expert in the field of willpower, said: The mind is a limited energy system. When we make thinking, decision-making, and self-control, we use this system. When the energy is exhausted, we are prone to misjudgment, maybe We don't realize it, but its impact on us is huge.
When we work for a day, our mood will become bad, and it is easy to get angry with people. After a long time of work, our efficiency will also be low, and some very easy tasks will make mistakes. If we encounter important things, we make wrong decisions, not only We will be punished by our leaders, and the company will suffer economic losses.
Youzan CEO Bai Ya responded to the 996 work system: This is definitely a good thing! "No, it's a bad thing!"
- How to make efficient decisions without time to think?
I remember a boss I just met when I first started working like this. The boss came from the management, but did not know how to manage the company. In addition to working overtime by himself, he also asked employees to accompany him.
He asked us to clock in at work in the morning, and we would be charged for being late, but when we got off work, we were not on time. He often worked overtime. I was asked to go to work on time. When a colleague came a little late, I was called out and scolded and fined half a day’s salary.
In this atmosphere, the employees didn't want to work, their performance continued to decline, and they all resigned one after another. Later, the company's development encountered a bottleneck. The salary was delayed for 3 months and could not be paid. The agent paid the fee and never got it. Goods, keep urging...
It turned out that the boss made a wrong decision under the high-intensity work state, and used the money that was originally used to pay wages to make the app. exhausted.
It's not surprising that the company's management is not standardized, and working hours are often used to cover up inefficiency. Just like the popular saying: Using tactical diligence to cover up strategic laziness will only make employees exhausted, the boss is exhausted, and the company is frequently frustrated. .
I remember the topic discussed in "Qi Hua Shuo" before, "Is it a pit for those who are able to work harder?" Although in the end, the negative side, "Those who work more than those who are capable, do not pit them," won, but I support the positive side, "It is a pit for those who are able to work too much."
Because in reality, many bosses will use the guise of "capable people work more" to occupy the time that employees should rest. For example, there is a great CEO, and my ex-boss, who makes work the top priority in life, family, health, friends, spirit... all can be put aside!
But it can't. There is a very vivid analogy: work is a rubber ball, you drop it on the ground, and it will bounce back. But the other four—family, health, friends, and spirit—are glass balls, and if you drop any of them on the ground, they will inevitably wear, imprint, and even shatter.
Youzan CEO Bai Ya responded to the 996 work system: This is definitely a good thing! "No, it's a bad thing!"
- Treating work as the only one is a disease
Treating work as the only one is actually a pathological work model, not only useless, but also harmful.
There is a widely circulated saying in the market: as long as you don't die, you will die!
It sounds very rhyming, but it's actually very ridiculous. Once you believe it, it's very harmful!
There is a working expectant mother, who is 2 months pregnant, and her stomach is not moving. She hurriedly went to the hospital for an examination, and the doctor told her to be mentally prepared that she might have had a miscarriage.
She didn't know what the word "abortion" meant, until she checked a lot of information, she didn't know that it meant miscarriage.
She didn't believe it at first, because the news often said that doctors would make misdiagnoses, and her family took her to several hospitals, but the results were the same, so she had to accept this cruel fact. She was heartbroken, and after finishing the Qing Palace, she cried for 4 days and 4 nights.
This is the only baby she and her husband have conceived in two years of marriage. When she was pregnant, she was so happy that she could not wait to tell everyone the good news, but in such a short period of two months, the baby in her belly The baby left her.
Looking back on her work and life later, she found that there was a reason for her fetus to leave her. She was obviously pregnant, and she was still trying to do high-intensity work. Give yourself some time to give even to the baby in your womb. You ignore him, he ignores you, and leaves you!
She held back her tears and said, "Even if you can do it, you can't do it day and night. Your health is still the most important thing!"
Gao Xiaosong, the tutor of "Wonderful Flowers", made a vivid metaphor in the issue of "Able People Do More Work": What is the busiest animal in nature? The least capable animals, ants, bees. What animal can sleep? Lion Tiger.
I finally evolved into a lion and tiger, with such high abilities, and then you say that capable people work hard, then why should I evolve, just be an ant, I don’t need to work hard. It is against the original intention of evolution to work harder for the able!
I observed my colleagues around and found this phenomenon. Some people are busy from morning to night, but their work efficiency is very low. Some people seem to work for short hours, but the quality of their work is very high.
Therefore, I think that capable people are not those who work hard, but those who work efficiently.
Youzan CEO Bai Ya responded to the 996 work system: This is definitely a good thing! "No, it's a bad thing!"
- People who work efficiently, rarely work too much
One of my junior sisters who just graduated, she is also born in 1995. When everyone else was still confused and overwhelmed by the job-seeking army, she was already the founder of a company with a monthly income of 100,000. A team of 100 people!
However, I see the status of her circle of friends that she usually posts, and it is not like many people think that the work is endless, but it is targeted and efficient, and she often participates in various community learning.
I asked her: "As a company founder, you should be very busy, why do you still have so much time for study and training?"
She said: "The work will never be finished, you can only choose some important tasks to do, and leave some unimportant tasks to your own employees to do, free up time for yourself to learn more new things and get in touch with more powerful people. If you are a talented person, you can link to more contacts, so that your thinking will not become rigid, and your decision-making will be more accurate.”
I totally agree with her statement. We are now in an era of intelligence. If we still work with the industrial era's "capable people do more work" thinking, we are destined to lag behind. If it is purely physical strength, then, in the future, with the advent of artificial intelligence, we will definitely not be able to compete with robots.
What we can fight is our brain power and our creativity, and these things are not obtained by busy work, but need to take time to cultivate.
Finally, to sum up: if we want to truly enjoy work, we must plan the time and work efficiently before we have time to enjoy!