Since June, internet companies have surged with a wave of cancellations.
On June 14, Tencent Photonics Studio piloted a mandatory closing at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
On June 24, Kuaishou announced that it would cancel the full-staff week from July 1.
On July 9, ByteDance notice canceled the size week from August 1.
On July 14, Meituan Preferred sent out the news of canceling the week.
On August 17, Boss Direct Announced the Cancellation of the Week from September 1.
On August 28, Vivo announced the cancellation of the big and small week from September 13.
On September 1, the new energy vehicle company Xiaopeng Automobile cancelled the big and small week.
This is like a "relay race", and almost every "relay" has received a lot of attention, rushing to Weibo hot search. Especially on August 31, which was the first payday after ByteDance canceled the size week, the voice of "17% reduction in salary for all employees" went viral on the Internet, becoming the most concerned point after the byte cancellation of the size week.
ByteDance canceled the size of the week after the salary general drop related news broadcasts exceeded one million
Most analyses attribute the reason for this "relay race" to the recent "Typical Cases of Labor and Personnel Disputes" released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Supreme People's Court, which identified "996" as illegal.
In addition to attribution, after the cancellation of the big and small weeks, what has changed in the lives of the employees of those Internet factories?
Less money
After canceling the big and small weeks, Hao Sheng felt that he "lived more like a person."
In the past, when Xiao Zhou went to work on Sundays, he always felt that there were two Mondays in a week, and that week became very long, and he kept thinking about how it was not yet the weekend. And Xiao Zhou only has one day, which always makes him feel that he does not have enough rest, and the fatigue has not yet cleared, and the work has come again.
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Now, Hao Sheng felt that the two days of the weekend were completely in his own hands. "Even if I don't do anything in bed all day, I feel a little happier than in the company."
Half a year ago, he graduated from college and joined ByteDance and became a "big factory person". Compared with other old employees, he has much less experience and feeling about the big and small week work system. Therefore, when talking about the big and small weeks, Hao Sheng felt that he was somewhat contradictory and his attitude was also vague.
The paradox is that he is both happy about the full weekend brought about by the cancellation of the big and small weeks, and at the same time he is a little unhappy about the reduction of his income after the cancellation. But under questioning, he is again in favor of cancellation, because for him at this stage, making more money is not the first option, but exercising ability and having a better resume.
But that may not represent more people. Some people complain about this initiative, asking on professional social platforms "Why do I come to byte without making money?" "Others say that those who complain are too short-sighted because they feel that the company's labor costs are fixed, but they are issued in different ways.
The complaints of ByteDance employees on the pulse of the workplace content community
No matter how many opinions and attitudes the "big factory people" have, this wave of cancellation weeks that has been surging is almost impossible to "ebb and go".
The notice of cancellation was announced on July 9. Because it was sent by all-staff mail, Hao Sheng said that the time received by everyone was not uniform. So long before he received the mail, the message reached his own ears through the mouth of his colleague. "At that time, I was still working, and suddenly everyone received such an email, and then they 'blew up'." Hao Sheng said that the content of the email was very short, and he said that starting from August 1, the company would cancel the work schedule on Sundays every other week.
ByteDance cancels the size of weekly messages
Wu Fei in ByteDance's South China region does not remember the specific date of the notification, but only remembers a Friday, when he suddenly received an email notification. Then, "the company rioted." But this kind of fierce emotion does not appear offline, but surges online.
Wu Fei himself was surprised by this, calling the move a "lifetime" series, and he never thought that one day Byte would cancel the big and small weeks. "Always starting a business is a byte value, so canceling the size of the week is not at all like a startup (can do it)"Wu Fei said.
But this incident is not as unimaginable as Wu Fei said, but there has been a wind and noise earlier. Li Muye heard this kind of wind a few months ago, and he saw someone on the pulse of the workplace content community discussing the abolition of the big and small week system. But at the time, he wasn't quite convinced. It wasn't until June that the company sent a survey questionnaire asking about people's attitudes on "whether to cancel the big and small weeks". He filled in the support, but did not care too much, only felt that it was an ordinary research.
On June 17, at the company's Open Day, CEO Liang Rubo announced the results of the survey: one-third did not support cancellation, and one-third supported it. But at that time, Liang Rubo also did not give the final result, only said that on whether to cancel the big and small weeks, the top level has not yet decided. Hao Sheng did not receive the previous survey questionnaire, and when he saw this result, he was a bit "confused", but he did not care too much, thinking that the company was unlikely to cancel the big and small weeks.
ByteDance cancels the results of the Weekly Survey
It wasn't until july 9 that he received the notification email that he and the people around him were surprised, and his first reaction was that "the money is (probably) less."
Indeed it is. August 31 was Hao Sheng's first payday after they canceled the big and small weeks, and after receiving the pay slip, Hao Sheng calculated that his salary was 2,000 yuan less than usual. This caused a huge discussion within their company, and this discussion broke through the internal boundaries, "ByteDance canceled the salary reduction after the week" once rushed to the hot search, and some employees said that the total staff fell by 17%.
Hao Sheng told don't refuse to be like this, this kind of voice is indeed not false. For people like him who have just started employment, the amount of salary reduction after the cancellation of the big and small weeks is not too much, but for other people such as R & D personnel and their own leaders, it is indeed a lot less money.
He remembers that on the day of the payday on August 31, he and the leader met with customers outside, and when the leader received the salary message, he said that he had a lot less money. Hao Sheng said that the leader's monthly salary is about 50,000, and based on the daily salary, he has reduced by more than 6,600 yuan per month.
Wu Fei, who is also in ByteDance, has also carefully calculated this account. In the normal two-day work model, the working day in January is 22 days. After adding the size of the week, the working days of each month are increased by 2 days. But these 2 days are paid according to double wages, so in the big and small week work mode, Wu Fei can get 4 days of wages for 2 days of work, and the number of working days per month has become 26 days.
Overtime work of young people in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen (Source: Zero points)
After the cancellation of the size week, they are equivalent to a 4-day reduction in wages. In this way, Wu Fei and Hao Sheng's monthly wages have been reduced by about 15%. The reason why they call the disappearance of this overtime pay a salary cut is because most of the byte-sized weekly overtime pay is included in the compensation package promised by employees when they join the company.
This is not a small number for many people. ByteDance's programmer Li Muye reduced by more than 5,000 yuan per month, which is exactly the january rent of him and his girlfriend. Hao Sheng said that the 6600 yuan that his boss reduced may be his January mortgage. Moreover, if calculated by year, Li Muye's income decreased by 60,000 yuan a year, Hao Sheng's income was 24,000 yuan, and his leader was nearly 80,000 yuan.
Change and change
But not everyone is overly concerned about the cancellation of the post-week pay cut. After Tong Yu's Kuaishou company canceled the big and small weeks, her salary was also reduced by about 2,000 yuan per month. But she didn't care very much, not that she wasn't short of money, but Tong Yu felt that she was more concerned about having a full weekend and a normal life than the double overtime pay.
In the past, when he was on a single break, Tong Yu said that he only wanted to "lie down" at home, "I don't want to do anything, I feel that I haven't rested enough, it's Monday." Those days, she said, were "too tiring to live and not want to socialize." And every time "the next week is a weekend break, it feels like a holiday, especially happy."
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There was a scene that Tong Yu remembered deeply. One month she worked more overtime, and then that month the card arrived at more than 30,000 yuan, but she did not feel happy in her heart.
Now, every week is a double holiday, and Tong Yu's life has begun to become richer. "I started to have my own life, that is, I can play and socialize." Tong Yu said that after the cancellation of the big and small weeks, she began to practice a leisure sport, the experience was very good, and she felt very decompressed. After that, she plans to re-rent near the company, reduce commuting distances, and make happiness a little higher.
Hao Sheng's feelings about the benefits of the cancellation of the big and small weeks are similar to Tong Yu's feelings, and he also feels that after having a full weekend, the abundant rest time makes people have more hearts to do more things that are not related to work but are closely related to life. He began to go out of the house more, taking his girlfriend to the mall, the alley, and also going to the bookstore to find his favorite books.
But not everyone's life is changing after the cancellation of the big and small weeks.
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When Pan Kun received the news of the cancellation, although he was happy that he could rest for an extra day, it was not immediately achievable. After joining Vivo two years ago, he was sent to other places as an offline agent, and has always been basically a small week, with a fast pace. If he doesn't return to headquarters, his rhythm can't be changed.
Li Muye's girlfriend is also in Byte, but not canceling the big week doesn't mean much to her. Because she is responsible for a small number of people and can not be interrupted, every week has been a small week, the so-called "996". This is still the case even after the cancellation of the big and small weeks.
It is also because the girlfriend has not returned to the normal weekend rhythm, and the change in Li Muye's life on the weekend is not obvious. Sometimes, he will accompany his girlfriend to work overtime at the company. Other times, he felt the biggest change was that there was more time off.
This is also Wu Fei's feeling. He is in charge of commercial work, spending half of his time traveling to meet clients and doing text work in the company when he is not traveling. Traveling is the most tiring time, sometimes to see 4 customers a day, and the time to go back in the evening is not accurate. Previously, during the week, because he didn't have to travel or see customers, he felt that going to work on Sunday was more relaxed. Because of this, he did not feel that there was anything wrong with the big and small weekly work model, but was more concerned about the reduction of his income after the cancellation.
Hao Sheng also expressed a similar view. In his impression, everyone's state of affairs on Sunday overtime was relatively relaxed. Most people stay until 7 p.m. and basically leave, and during the week, most of the time to leave work at night is around 8 or 9 o'clock, and some colleagues will stay until after 10 o'clock. At that time, when I went home, the taxi was reimbursable.
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What has not changed is their respective workloads. Tong Yu, Hao Sheng, and Li Muye all said that after the cancellation of the big and small weeks, their workload has not decreased, but it is the same as before.
Tong Yu's friend once asked her whether the fact that the workload has not changed means that employees have to take their work home to continue to deal with, and there is no double overtime pay?
Not really. Tong Yu feels that the company is not prohibiting overtime, but giving the choice to employees, if there is no end to the work, you can still work overtime on weekends, but also get double wages, but now you need to apply with the leader. ByteDance has the same rules, Hao Sheng told reporters, the company allows them to work overtime under the necessary conditions, but to apply to the leader, after approval.
But Hao Sheng feels that in this case, the probability of the leader's approval is relatively small, "For example, if I want to apply for overtime, the leader may say that you may belong to the middle of the week and the efficiency is relatively low, so maybe he will not give you approval." ”
996: From the blessing report to the rebuttal
Wu Fei felt that "996" and the big and small weeks were not equal signs. However, public opinion did not subdivide the differences here, but used "996" to characterize the excessive overtime behavior of Internet companies.
Therefore, it can be clearly perceived that the word "996" has gone from being flaunted by Internet companies to avoiding it and being refuted by public opinion.
On April 11, 2019, Ma Yun called "996" a blessing in an internal meeting at Alibaba. At the same time, Internet practitioners have set off a wave of ridicule on the Internet for "996", making up the sentence "work 996, sick ICU".
Ma Yun called "996" a blessing
In the early morning of December 29 of the following year, a Pinduoduo employee died suddenly on the way to work, pushing the problem of uncontrolled overtime on the Internet to the forefront. Xinhua News Agency issued an article commenting on this matter, saying that "996" is by no means a blessing, it not only violates the labor law, but also deviates from the spirit of struggle, and the harm to society cannot be underestimated. So far, the attitude of public opinion towards excessive overtime behavior such as "996" has formed a tone of criticism.
Then in July this year, at the same time that the US group preferentially canceled the big and small weeks, the People's Political Consultative Conference Daily also issued an article criticizing that the platform economy should resolutely prevent the endless and unlimited extraction of surplus labor and its high surplus value.
After the boss direct employment announced the cancellation of the size week, Guangming Daily published an article "Canceling the hot search on the "big and small week", what does it mean?" The reason for the hot discussion of the cancellation of the big and small weeks is attributed to the workers' pursuit of common prosperity and the higher demand for a sense of gain, happiness and security.
Guangming Daily published an article
Indeed, Tong Yu and Li Muye also expressed that after the cancellation of the big and small weeks, the happiness of life has indeed improved. But they don't have much confidence in their later lives, or to be more precise, in the lives of the big cities. Li Muye said that now he wants to earn a few years in Beijing with his girlfriend, and then plans to buy a house and settle in a second-tier city, so the happiness of life will be much higher.
Here, the question of Lian Si, a scholar who specializes in young Chinese, in his popular paper "The Tyranny of Time" should be more appropriate:
"We must begin to think: what kind of society will enable young people to realize their dreams and live happily ever after sacrificing their health and freedom?"
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