Every day, in Tokyo, where the population density is the highest in the world, office workers who get up at 6: 30 rush to the subway station, crowding the carriages like cans full of sardines. After a long journey of 1 hour, these white-collar workers started a busy day in their respective companies. From 9: 00 a.m. to 8: 00 p.m., many people drag their tired bodies home until the early hours of the morning.
In such an atmosphere, Japanese workers "have the conditions to work overtime, but they have to work overtime if they have no conditions to create conditions". The average weekly working hours are close to 50 hours, leading the world, becoming a veritable overtime country and being recognized as "overtime hell" by the outside world. Therefore, as early as the 1990s, news of overwork leading to karoshi and suicide has been frequently reported in Japan. In China at that time, few people thought that China society would come to this step.
In 2006, China Economic Weekly reported that the number of "sudden deaths" in China was as high as 600,000 every year. This controversial figure was later interpreted by some media as karoshi and reprinted one after another, causing an uproar in society. However, in the uproar of these public opinions, Chinese workers from all walks of life are still getting off work later and later.
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics last month, the average weekly working hours of employees in enterprises nationwide reached 46.5 hours, more than half an hour compared with the same period last year. Some experts on the Internet say that 90% of industries in China work more than 40 hours a week, and 50% of industries work overtime for more than 4 hours a week; More than 80% people in the workplace are forced to work overtime, and 70% of the "overtime workers" work overtime for free. Among them, Huawei and Country Garden are well known to the public.
First of all, Huawei employees work overtime for 4 hours on average, and there are camp beds under their desks. When they encounter major projects, they work overtime and stay in the company day and night. Because there are also many jokes, in addition to the well-known Japanese experts, there is also a Huawei employee who sends a text message to his wife. The employee said, "Wife, go to bed early. I may 1 1 go back." Sure enough, I went home the next day 1 1.
Country Garden's overtime culture spread throughout the circle of friends through a document asking designers to work overtime all night. In addition, in order to let employees work overtime, Country Garden has made the following regulations: the project will be delisted until it starts for more than 40 days; The construction period is more than 7 months, and the project has been going; Departments that leave work on time shall not increase personnel. There are rumors that many graduates who entered Country Garden can only cry secretly because they can't stand overtime, so they are teased by the old man: "What, it's not too late to cry, as if the work is not saturated."
Although the overtime work of these two companies is extremely serious, their achievements should not be underestimated.
Through the overtime work of 6.5438+0.8 million employees, Huawei has made great efforts in various businesses. First, it competed with Ericsson in the field of communication business, and then it stole a large part of Samsung's market in the field of mobile phone business. In addition, it also involves many fields such as storage, network equipment and cloud services. And its achievements are even more impressive: 5G patents rank first in the world, mobile phone shipments exceed 200 million, and the revenue of 20 18 is more than the sum of BAT.
In contrast, Country Garden has engaged in a "high turnover" tactic through employees' high-intensity overtime work: taking land all over the country, developing it immediately after taking it, completing sales within half a year, and then continuing to take land for development. It is also through this tactic that Country Garden squeezed out the position of big brother Vanke from a local developer in Shunde and became the so-called "the largest real estate enterprise in the universe".
Of course, the fortunes of Huawei and Country Garden, in addition to the overtime and dedication of employees, are also inseparable from the influence of good timing. The former enjoys the engineer bonus brought by the popularization of higher education, and at the same time catches up with the outbreak of cmnet; The latter gambled on national luck until the domestic real estate market broke out. However, most entrepreneurs can't see and wait for the opportunity of both. In order to make a profit and survive, they can only choose another way:
Try to make company employees work overtime.