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Recently, an article entitled "Children Left Behind on the Internet: The Next Generation of Employees of Dachang" spread rapidly on the Internet, which aroused the resonance of countless parents of "996" social animals.

In the article, a Douban netizen described what he witnessed with his own eyes in an Internet factory in China: the parents who were employees went to the square downstairs at five or six o’clock in the evening, and the old man brought the children over, and the parents and children met in a hurry to talk. Then the old man took the baby home for dinner and homework, and the parents continued to go back to work and move bricks until midnight.

The picture is from Phoenix News.

Coincidentally, Tencent News has also filmed a documentary-"People in the Workplace in a Broken Situation", which also reflects the plight of 996 parents in big cities.

Zhang Ting, the head of the Internet company, gets up at six o’clock every morning, commutes for two hours by car, and gets home from work at eleven or twelve o’clock. Her daughter has fallen asleep long ago and has little time to spend with her children. Her greatest wish is to "spend a day with her daughter without a job."

The seemingly ordinary wish of "spending a good day with children" has poked pain in the hearts of many parents in the workplace, especially the parents of dual-employees of Internet companies in first-tier cities.

The picture comes from the parent-child companion survey in China city.

Some netizens also believe that the parents of Internet giant 996 can at least provide high-quality educational resources for their children and pave the way for their future, while practitioners in other industries, including media people, designers, construction workers, couriers, etc., also have long-term overtime work in 996 or even 007, but they can’t get the corresponding high-paying treatment.

However, these added values become insignificant in the face of "death".

Some time ago, the news that "a 23-year-old female employee in Pinduoduo worked overtime until one o’clock in the morning and died suddenly on the street" aroused widespread concern in society. The girl fell at the beginning of her life, and didn’t even come to have her own family and children, let alone have a chance to weigh whether all the sacrifices were worth it. The picture is from Zhihu.

Pinduoduo responded that "fighting with life" in front of capital,

Even "desperate" is a matter of course!

From "996" to "big and small weeks", overtime forms emerge one after another. "I have time to earn money, but I don’t have time to spend money" is not only a self-mockery of office workers, but also the status quo of many people in the workplace who are hopelessly struggling in life. When group overtime is blooming everywhere and getting worse, the harm it brings is not just the education of children. ……

996 of Daxie Platform = Struggle?

In recent years, social animals started to shout "Work 996, Sick ICU", which set off a climax of debate and criticism on the Internet. However, Internet tycoons have wrapped 996 platform with the sugar coating of "love work and hard work", as if 996 represents struggle, and refusing 996 is lazy.

Ma Yun’s father doesn’t have to say, "996 is a blessing", which is a resounding story.

The picture comes from the Internet.

Some employees in sogou once anonymously complained about the overtime hours of the company. Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan immediately denied that this was a written system, leaving a malicious remark: "People who don’t agree with the company system should either adapt or give feedback and suggestions to help the company improve. What is it to come out and talk? Get out of here if you have the guts. "

JD.COM once issued an email signed by Liu Qiangdong, demanding that three types of people be eliminated resolutely, and those employees who can’t work hard and have low cost performance should be swept out of the house immediately.

The picture comes from the Internet.

Aauto Quicker followed closely, announcing that the Week will be held on January 10th, 2021.

The Internet development model of rapid iteration, trial and error, and small steps and quick running has created the miracle of the Internet in China. In the face of economic downturn, it is cheaper to let employees run at full capacity than to find new growth opportunities. Therefore, what entrepreneurs need is "good employees" who can drink "chicken soup for success", keep up with the rhythm, and don’t shout bitterness or tiredness.

996 has nothing to do with struggle, but with interests.

The picture comes from the Internet.

Whether employees have enough private time to rest, whether their families are harmonious, and whether the next generation grows up healthily are not within their consideration. For entrepreneurs, enterprise benefits come first. They don’t lack people who consciously work overtime until 12 o’clock. If you don’t go, others will go.

Actually, 996 is not a "new concept". Domestic overtime culture and "wolf-like" corporate culture have been prevalent for a long time. The working system of 996 expanded from the early entrepreneurial passion to the daily life of enterprises, and then developed into a mandatory management means, which even produced some disadvantages.

In the all-weather science and technology report, a Tencent employee reported that in the general 996 environment, you always leave work early, and your superiors will think that your work is not saturated, or your work enthusiasm is not high, so some employees in the team will stay in the company even if they have finished their work, and they will not leave work until the time. There are also some enterprises that feel good when they see others engaging in 996 and engaging in wolf culture, and they also want to promote the atmosphere in their own companies. No matter what happens, they start to advocate 996.

At the same time, people’s complex emotions about 996 are accumulating day by day. In the environment of strict epidemic control, economic downturn, layoffs and salary cuts, entrepreneurs continue to put 996 blessings on the table and kidnap us with successful chicken soup, and everyone’s dissatisfaction with 996 broke out.

Netizens’ complex emotions about 996 (picture from the network)

"This world shouldn’t be like this" is gradually "awakened" by "resource-based" tool people: 996= struggle? Then why does such "struggle" make people feel "instrumentalized"? Did the "struggle" of 996 really bring you inner satisfaction after sacrificing your health, rest and hobbies?

We in 996, alienated "tool people"

Rejecting 996 is not to deny the meaning of labor and struggle, but to deny the labor alienation hidden behind the mysterious logic of "996= struggle".

Some people will wonder, why do big Internet companies hire high-intensity employees with high salaries? Instead of hiring more people and paying less for each person, let everyone work in a more humane way?

Xiang Biao, a professor of social anthropology at Oxford University, gave an explanation. This system is designed to better control employees. Working hours are lengthened, the number of workers is reduced, and people are attracted by high wages. Under this game rule, there is a highly tense competition among migrant workers.

When everyone arrives at their posts, they will only go to work without reflection. At the same time, with fewer people, the relationship between people is also less and it becomes easier to control.

The picture comes from pear video.

When time and intensity are too oppressive, people will have a strong feeling of being alienated and instrumentalized.

If you work eight hours a day and have a buffer, people’s perception is completely different. A person who gets off work at six o’clock every day and doesn’t get off work until 90 o’clock every night leads two completely different lives.

After work at six o’clock, you can be in the mood to cook a good meal, go to a movie, get together with friends, and take the children for a walk, instead of rushing to take a few takeaways, so busy with the computer until late at night that you gradually regard work as the basis of the meaning of life and have no time to stop and think.

The working system of 996 crushes people into tools. Labor is only a means to maintain the survival of oneself and family. The laborer becomes a commodity and is regarded as a part of a huge system, and the employees repeatedly compare and consider its cost performance.

The picture comes from the Internet.

What is even more frightening is that under this system, the cost performance of workers will become lower and lower.

Marx once said: "The more wealth a worker produces, the greater the strength and quantity of his products, and the poorer he is. The more goods a worker creates, the cheaper he becomes. The appreciation of the world of things is directly proportional to the depreciation of the world of people. " That’s right. It’s the essence of 996.

Long-term default to 996 will make the whole labor market deteriorate gradually, and the working hours of individuals will also depreciate. If everyone is tempted by short-term high salary and connives at the continuation of 996, it will cause a vicious competition.

In the future, your 996 is worthless, because others can live in the company for 24 hours at last. This kind of arms race is headless, and workers will lose their bargaining power with capital more and more. In order to make more money for the time being, I sacrificed my body and family and gave up my saved capital. In the future, I will "struggle" and will only be ruthlessly abandoned by enterprises.

The picture comes from the Internet.

What’s more, under 996, I worked hard for more than ten hours every day, and I had no personal life and no time to reflect. I was constantly consumed in repetitive busyness, and my creativity at work would disappear.

Imagine, if we are all social animals, dead presidents, how can we expect someone to create new things and produce new ideas?

The picture comes from the Internet.

Silicon Valley is the world’s science and technology center, which has nurtured great innovative enterprises such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Tesla. But here, there is no company that adopts 996 in a unified way, and there is no company that implements large and small weeks. Most companies guarantee weekends every week, and the working days are normally from 10 to 6. A few companies take turns to adopt the on call system, but it is only once or twice a year, half a week or a week at a time.

In Silicon Valley, overtime is very rare. Even if there is, employees who want to be promoted will choose to work overtime on their own initiative. The company will never give an employee a hard time or eliminate him because he refuses to work overtime. On the contrary, it may cause resentment from the boss.

At Google headquarters, employees are playing beach volleyball.

Silicon Valley generally adopts a management mode of high commitment rather than high control. High commitment means providing employees with a relaxed working atmosphere and independent working space, so that employees can enjoy a free state. After employees feel that their personal rights and interests are respected, they will spontaneously put themselves into work, but their work efficiency will be improved.

996, who exhausted his resources and fished,

Overdraft is the future of the whole society.

The extensive development mode of 996 is very short-sighted. Once the cycle of rapid development of the industry has passed, such simple and rude management methods will not apply. High pressure and quick output may bring short-term explosive power, but they lack the toughness of long-distance running, which is a long-term solution rather than a long-term solution.

Since 1996, employees’ physical and mental health has been severely damaged, and they have collapsed and suffered from neurasthenia, which can not be compensated by short-term quantitative benefits. In the long run, employees will lose their enthusiasm and enterprises will lose their hearts. This is a great loss to individuals, families, enterprises and the country.

The picture comes from the Internet.

Some enterprises may think that this is no problem. Anyway, there are plenty of fresh leeks that can be cut. After cutting a batch, change a batch, and there is no worry about not being connected. However, this depends on the full supply of China’s labor market. With a large population and fierce competition in the talent market, even if the work intensity is extremely high, there is no worry about not recruiting people. However, with the change of the age distribution structure of the working population, the scarcity of talent supply will gradually increase. Continuing to engage in 996 will only ruin the reputation and image of the enterprise, which is a manifestation of low management ability.

In 2019, China’s fertility rate has fallen below the warning line of 1.5. In 2018 and 2019, it is only between 1.1 and 1.2. If the fertility rate falls below 1.5, it will fall into the trap of low fertility rate, and it is difficult to rise again. For example, in Japan, after the total fertility rate fell below 1.5 in 1995, although the government has been vigorously encouraging fertility, the total fertility rate has not been able to rise above 1.5. It is optimistically estimated that the population of China will begin to shrink within ten years, and the population of China will fall below 600 million by the end of this century. The demographic dividend that China’s economic growth has always enjoyed is disappearing.

Image from National Bureau of Statistics

Behind this phenomenon, 996 is also one of the factors. Ultra-long working hours and intense work pressure make it difficult for people to have time and energy to raise the next generation, not to mention that raising a baby requires huge economic expenses. At present, although the country has opened two children, many young people don’t even have the energy and money to have a child.

In the past, "left-behind children" were children whose parents went to work in cities, stayed alone in the countryside or grew up with their grandparents. Now, many urban children have become "left-behind children in cities". Parents are busy with work, so they have to leave their children in the care of the elderly and nannies. Although they enjoy more resources than left-behind children in rural areas, they will also have problems such as loneliness, depression, sensitivity and paranoia because of the lack of parental companionship. Why do young people in China not want to have children, considering the dilemma of raising babies for the employees of big Internet companies mentioned at the beginning? It should be easy to understand.

To continue to advocate 996 is to drag the country into the abyss of a vicious circle.

The picture comes from the Internet.

"workers, decent people", 996 when the exit.

Zhou Yu, a professor of organization and talent strategy teaching in the Business School of Renmin University of China, said in an interview with Caijing that the sustainable development of human beings and the balance between life and work have become a social demand in the West since the 1950s. Since the 1990s, western enterprises have paid great attention to the sustainable development of human beings, emphasizing the work-life balance of employees and the healthy balance of employees’ body and mind.

China is now in this transitional period.

The advanced technology, the sustainability of business logic and the civilized degree of organization and management are the necessary components for China enterprises to gain international competitiveness. The most important thing to manage the sustainability of civilization is to manage and draw people’s sustainability, and to really and effectively stimulate people’s innovative potential, rather than simply relying on the extension of labor hours to manage people.

The picture is from Weibo.

Stopping 996 is in line with the development situation. Although people generally call for a more reasonable management method than 996, individuals are still in a weak position for enterprise organizations. This change requires the government to give stricter supervision.

To improve the implementation of laws and regulations related to labor security, local labor security departments should take responsibility and do something at critical times. With the support of the government, workers can stand upright and be confident when safeguarding their legitimate rights and interests, and there is less sadness left for people to sigh afterwards. I hope that in the future, we can all work with more dignity and dignity.

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Landlord sees the world: 996 will definitely fail to innovate.

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Original title: "After 996, Big Week is coming again": A job without dignity will ruin the future of the whole society.

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