"West Street Observation" Workplace Metamorphosis: The Prisoner's Dilemma of Inner Scrolls and FishIng

Some time ago, the Internet giants represented by Tencent, Byte, Kuaishou, etc., successively cancelled the big and small weeks and eliminated 996, indicating the arrival of the "new KPI reform era". Before waiting for the workplace people to return to the taste, the scale of the game has fallen in the opposite direction: recently, a company punished employees for going to work to "touch the fish" Notice was exposed: 16.9G Vibrato, 22.5G NetEase Cloud Music, 9.8G Tencent Video...

The anti-involution topic has just boosted the sense of happiness, and such a punishment notice has once again provoked the sensitive nerves of the beaters. Leaving aside the fact that such "supervising" employees' online data is compliant and legal, the workplace metamorphosis of the two poles of the inner volume and the "touching fish" is worthy of careful discussion by company managers.

Earlier, we said that the big factory bid farewell to 996, not only anti-internal volume, but also a complex workplace reform experiment, the most core proposition is to solve the prisoner's dilemma of inner volume and fish, Nash equilibrium, or Pareto optimal? The general direction is the dynamic balance of KPIs and the healthy operation of the team.

To prevent the workplace from "touching the fish", specific to the entry point, some companies will adopt a similar strategy of anti-inward roll: starting from working hours. The company that exposed the penalty notice is like this, monitoring the mobile phone or computer traffic during the employee's work, and after a simple conversion, it can determine whether the employee is bent on the work.

However, whether the workplace metamorphosis "touches the fish" or not cannot be just a red line of working hours. The core indicators of enterprise KPI assessment are also required to develop more reward and punishment standards.

Put into the workplace competitive environment, anti-inward roll, anti-fish, but also use the method of competition to develop.

Some companies or some departments of the company are mainly working hours, doing things according to the rules, strictly implementing, and monitoring employee behavior openly and transparently without infringing on privacy. But it also requires managers not to "add a shift and make employees work hard"; other companies or other departments of the company are results-oriented, flexible work, four days off for three days, and even work from home and travel office, which can also be within the scope of exploration.

The 8-hour working day system has not existed since ancient times, but the convention of the modern economic system and the bottom line guarantee of the rights and interests of workers by the national legal system. Before the workplace roll, there was no shortage of companies that explored a more relaxed and flexible KPI assessment method, but it was wiped out by the tide of the workplace roll.

Now the anti-internal volume has become a trend again, since improving the employee happiness index is not only to cancel the big and small weeks and say goodbye to 996, but also to enrich the KPI reform and personnel benefits. This means that different companies and different departments within the company should use differentiated and competitive personnel strategies to attract talents at different levels.

In the final analysis, the company buys the value of personal labor, can be long, can be piecemeal, can be strategic, different companies, different departments have different needs, on the basis of legal compliance and relative fairness, company A's so-called "fish" may be the "welfare" encouraged by company B.

The modern economy will eventually usher in the era of artificial intelligence, in the dimension of work, workplace people can not compete with robots in any way, the length of time. Therefore, the simple and rude prevention of the "touching the fish" problem is not only the lack of corporate humanity, but also the hidden lack of confidence in team efficiency and KPI upgrades.

Beijing Business Daily commentator Zhang Xuwang