China News Finance, January 28 (Reporter Wu Tao) "more than 20 hours of high-intensity design and development" and "1 week of high-intensity completion of 200 products and design inspection and modification". This document, which was originally an "instant incentive recognition", became a "straw" for employees to erupt in dissatisfaction.
Recently, screenshots reported by a number of media reports show that late at night on the 25th, an employee of Tencent's weChat company was in a large group within the department, because of the high-intensity overtime problem caused by "catching up with the version", angering the management. Topics such as "Tencent's fresh graduate companies are angry with the management" and "why the overtime culture is repeatedly prohibited" have been hotly searched.
Screenshot of a large group of Tencent enterprise WeChat.
Employees anger management: Have you considered the lives of employees at the bottom?
"If the internal test is postponed by one day, will the enterprise WeChat soon go out of business?" "With one high-intensity overtime of more than 20 hours after another, in exchange for a so-called 'business breakthrough award', a glass trophy, a few thousand yuan of incentive bonuses, is it worth it?" Employees intimidate the management of Tencent Enterprise WeChat.
Screenshots from media reports show that the employee said, "Tomorrow I will propose to leave my job, and I hope that all parties will not get me approved, so as not to hinder me from having a good year." However, as of press time, Tencent has not responded to whether the employee has submitted his resignation.
As the incident continues to ferment, some netizens said that this is not bad, "big factories" have money to work overtime, small companies are late for a second and directly deduct money, and they will leave after work and will say you: "How do you leave work as soon as you leave work." ”
Some netizens commented. Screenshot of Weibo
Some netizens said, "The Internet circle has been working overtime for a long time." "This staff is very powerful, dare to face the leader, speak out our hearts, too cattle!" "Being able to leave work normally is a luxury."
Tencent responds: Try to avoid short-term high-intensity work
The Zhongxin financial reporter learned that after the above-mentioned employees angrily intimidated the management of the enterprise WeChat, the team director responded in the group: Let you be disappointed in the team, I have the responsibility, here I really see it, want to advocate the ability to do what is deformed in the implementation process, we have to find a way to normalize.
Huang Tieming, head of Tencent's WeChat, responded: "Some of the commendation content triggered a student's feedback on the department's high-intensity work problems and health problems, and I recognize the student's attitude of daring to speak out about the problem." ”
Huang Tieming also said that this student just joined the department for 2 months, just came to the pressure, and the surrounding students found that everyone generally worked high-intensity, coupled with the recent unfortunate death of friends around them had a greater internal impact, so the emotions burst out in the department group to express their opinions on high-intensity work.
According to Huang Tieming, next, the department management team will discuss a set of specific solutions to such problems as soon as possible, the general idea is to make timely planning, try to avoid high-intensity work in the short term; clear evaluation orientation, will not let everyone because of concerns about the assessment ranking and "later than overtime, later than who".
In June 2021, Tencent took the lead in opposing "inner volume", and its photonic studio piloted the policy of "mandatory no overtime double holiday" in mid-June, going to work at 9:30 on Wednesday health days, leaving work at 6:00 pm, and other weekdays must also leave the company before 9 pm.
Subsequently, Kuaishou, ByteDance, etc. canceled the "big and small week", Tencent issued stocks, and JD.com raised salaries. Huawei no longer advocates the "marching bed", and Baidu no longer mentions "wolf culture". Everyone once believed that Internet companies began to oppose "inner volume", but at present, things may not be so simple.
Sino-Singapore Micro-Review: Excess "Overtime" Should Be Put in the "Cage" of the Law
Not only to speed up the business to go online, but also to have less overtime and more rest, this seemingly irreconcilable contradiction can only sacrifice the latter in the end, and employees are involved in endless overtime. In the end, it will not erupt in silence, but perish in silence.
In fact, it may not be uncommon to see tragedies caused by high-intensity overtime, and in 2021, the sudden death of employees in many enterprises has aroused strong concern in society, although the companies concerned do not recognize it.
The Labor Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that employers may, after consultation with trade unions and workers, extend their working hours after consultation with trade unions and workers due to production and operation needs, and generally shall not exceed one hour per day; if they need to extend working hours for special reasons, the extended working hours shall not exceed three hours per day under the condition of protecting the health of workers, but shall not exceed 36 hours per month.
However, many enterprises often violate the provisions of relevant laws and regulations in their actual operation. There is a popular saying in the Internet circle: one person takes two people's money and does three people's things. High-intensity overtime has become a common thing, 996, 007, 715 and so on emerge in an endless stream, and the high salaries in the Internet industry are refined in this way.
Even, after the accident, some companies are "crying": the market is highly competitive, other companies are working overtime, and not working overtime may be directly abandoned by the market. But in any case, fierce market competition can not be an excuse to violate the law, overtime should have a "bottom line", that is, within the framework of the law. (End)