Overwork, only in Japan, is so serious that it becomes a social problem.
Only in China, serious enough to become a "virtue".
01, work 996, sick ICU.
Recently, everyone in the country has been discussing "996".
The so-called "996" means working at 9: 00 a. M. every morning, working until 9: 00 p. M., and working six days a week.
Working 12 hours a day and working 72 hours a week are far more than the 8 hours per day and 44 hours a week stipulated in the Labor Code, and are in the category of serious overwork.
But now, 996 has become a tacit rule of work for China's biggest internet companies.
How bitter is 996?
It can be said that you almost live to work robot, and is tense, slightly empty under the slip number, sorry, 24 hours is not enough for you, you lost yourself completely.
This is still a person's life, already full of.
Imagine if it was two people who had their own chores in addition to each other, and a child who could not take care of your parents' illness for so long that you could not take care of them.
However, in today's competitive environment, 996 is not abhorrent.
As long as the money is in place, and both sides volunteer, 996 can be a personal choice in pursuit of high pay and progress.
After all, the world is not so simple as black and white.
But the key is, at present, the majority of companies "996" is not overtime pay, that is, the so-called "compulsory overtime"!
Ma Yun's father recently said: "being able to do 996 is a great blessing."
The company does not force employees to "996", but has ideals and pursuits successful people are working overtime every day, and continue to struggle for their dreams.
The implication is that if you don't 996, you don't work hard, you don't want to fight.
Online cursing, this is completely in the concept of stealing.
Recently, Liu Qiangdong, who has been at the forefront of the storm, has become even worse. According to an e-mail leaked inside Jingdong, Jingdong will eliminate three categories of people.
Among them, whether you are because of physical or family reasons, anything you can't fight or can't fight, you have to be laid off.
He also growled against employees who opposed the company's 996 system, saying "every Jingdong must have a fighting spirit!"
Dong also disclosed his work intensity: "in my constitution, do 8116, Monday through Saturday, 8: 00 a.m. to 11:00, Sunday 8 hours, two days a month off, no problem!"
Speaking of 996 is not a new thing in the Internet world, but a few years ago these enterprises were not so wanton, blatant.
Earlier this year, CEO, a Hangzhou-based company called Youzan, publicly announced at the company's annual meeting that it would implement a "996 work system."
"if a person says that work is work, life is life, you can't find him after work, don't reply on weekends with work problems, then he can't get used to us."
The question of how to balance work and life after 996 was asked.
The CEO did not hesitate to say: "work and family balance is not good, can divorce."
I can't help reminiscent of a famous line of Foxconn production line saying in 2015: "if you don't cooperate with overtime once, I'll let you not add a class from now on."
Today, more and more Chinese companies like to talk about wolf nature, encouraging employees to work harder, more dedication and more overtime, less welfare to do more work, as soon as called to wave and go, like a wolf to listen to the command.
To put it bluntly, talking about money is the biggest respect for employees, only talking about feelings and not talking about wages, what is the difference between this and "playing hooligans"?
02, but sadly, a lot of times, people also acquiesced in this squeeze.
Not long ago, the Bureau of Statistics released a report on labor participation rates around the world.
In the report, China ranks first in the world, the world's largest labor force, and the world's highest labor participation rate.
Overwork is the fate of people living in the workplace at the moment.
And Australia.
Comparison of China's huge data, but very little.
Still remember Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong announced their romance on Weibo, which led to the collapse of Weibo.
Half the time the groom got married and stopped to work overtime to repair a career like Bug, Australians can't imagine it.
Many years ago, news such as overworked death, sudden death, was not common in China.
And now it's in the news all the time.
In March 2019, a single father in Fuzhou, dependent on a 17-year-old autistic son, died suddenly at work after a night shift and left his child for good.
On his cell phone, people saw 10 text messages he left to his son.
Text message wrote: like drinking water, try to give him warm water, otherwise he will drink cold; do not eat all shellfish, like to eat noodles dry rice, will find water when they can not go down; Stop the son from robbing the food of other children at first, otherwise he will mean he can take it; give the son an order to strip, or he will sleep without taking it off.
One word at a time, all is care and do not give up.
It is reported that in order to catch up with the project, he often work overtime until 5: 6 am, and then go to work.
The day before he died, he said "too tired" to his mother.
On June 29, 2016, Jin Bo, deputy editor-in-chief of Tianya Community, suddenly fell to death on the Beijing subway platform.
A number of Jin Bo's colleagues confirmed to the media that Jin Bo "works harder, staying up late for a long time in recent years."
"996" is "wolf nature", regardless of black and white, upside-down sooner or later.
A lot of work in China is almost fatal.
In the end, 996 is about everyone:
- If some industries are 996, then in order to synchronize time, your industry will soon be 996.
- If you are oppressed in time to 996, you may be deducted from other treatment in the future.
03, a while ago, an Australian news set off a heated discussion at home!
The Australian woman sued her employer for five hundred and fifty thousand Australian dollars for regular overtime of 1-6 minutes.
This is not surprising to us who have stayed in Australia for a long time.
Because in Australia, classes can't be added casually!
All the time, the employees of the Australian Inland Revenue Department get off work at 04:51 every day and leave at the point of arrival!
In 2017, the Australian Inland Revenue Authority advised employees to get off work at 5 p. M., or nine more minutes a day. But the proposal met with collective opposition from employees.
In lengthy negotiations and negotiations with unions, the Inland Revenue Department finally abandoned the proposal.
In Australia, minimum wages, overtime pay, pension contributions and so on are strict and well enforced.
In fact, Australian law does not prohibit overtime, but overtime pay.
Usually overtime pay 1.5 times, two days off overtime pay 2 times, holiday overtime is more strict control, statutory holidays 3 times.
The wages of workers in many industries are alarmingly high.
Usually 20 days of annual leave for full-time employees do not count as weekends and 10 days of sick leave.
The vast majority of employers enforce the law strictly because non-compliant employers are prosecuted with severe penalties.
Last July, Australian makeup brand LUSH admitted to withholding more than 5000 employees over an eight-year period.
After being exposed, the company's director publicly apologized to employees and repaid A $2 million.
At work, when you feel like you are being treated unfairly, you can file a complaint with the Fair work Department (Fair Work Ombudsman).
In addition, Australian employees also have a very strong backstage-union.
Australia's trade unions are very strong, once unfairly treated, trade unions negotiate with government and companies, and even organize vigorous strike everywhere.
Last Christmas, Woolworth, an Australian supermarket chain, applied to government for holiday overtime tellers and was willing to pay an hourly salary of 55.30 Australian dollars.
However, the request was rejected because government argued that Christmas should be reunited with family.
Add a few minutes class, in wolf nature culture popular in China, there is no problem.
But 90% of Australians refuse.
In Australia, if you ask 100 Australians, which one is more important to work or family?
99 will answer, of course, the family is important, if we have to choose between the family and work, the vast majority of people resolutely choose the family!
In 2017, New State Governor Baird suddenly resigned because of family reasons, shocked Australian politics.
CEO Antony Catalano of Domain, Australia's second-largest real estate trading site, announced his resignation and returned to Melbourne from Sydney to accompany his family.
David Bartlett, the state governor, decided to resign as governor for family reasons.
Bartlett said it was the toughest decision of his political career, but he had to put his 7-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter first.
No one would say they were unsuccessful, and no one would feel that they could not bear the pain and fail.
For in addition to their work, they are husbands, fathers and sons.
They may also be a fashion man, a popular blogger.
In Australia, there are many possibilities of success in life, really not only 996 single.
Australia does not have 996, you can say Australian Buddhism, you can say that Australians lazy, but you will not despise them, after all, people may really, super happy.
Work is for a better life, not work as everything in life.
One's own life, only their own definition, only the most forceful.