You can’t beat huawei, Alibaba and NetEase employees by working overtime

Overtime work is the norm for most IT professionals, and the death of young people working overtime is not news, but the norm.

The news of karoshi has become more and more in recent years:

• On July 26, 2014, Wang Jin, the head of huawei Hisi Wireless chip development Department, suddenly fell into a coma and was unable to be rescued. He was only 44 years old.

• On June 24, 2016, the former ali DT director O ‘Gilan died at the age of 34 while exercising due to years of overtime work.

• On June 29, 2016, Jin Bo, deputy editor of Tianya Community, died suddenly in the subway on his way from work. He was only 34 years old.

• In November 2016, pan Yang, a 22-year-old Employee of Alibaba, published an open letter titled “Employee Number 105751 complained to Alibaba with real name. Finally, I was forced to die by you” on weibo, suspected suicide.

• In 2017, a 26-year-old doctor in Zhejiang province died in his dormitory after working a night shift and a day shift.

• …

See here, as if these people are just a name on the news, sigh after no other, even do not feel that this matter has much to do with their own.

In fact, 600, 000 people die from overwork in China every year. For those of you who don’t know what that number means, we live in a country where every minute, at least one person dies because of work.

Recently, there is a hot news on weibo. After working overtime for three days and three nights in a row, shenzhen white-collar xiao Fat brother angrily quit his job to do handcrafts:Afraid to spend money.

Little brother once worked in an advertising company as a designer. After working overtime for three days and three nights in a row, he resigned. “You accumulated too many diseases and earned money, but you actually died.”

Now he has set up his own studio and is a handmade leather craftsman. He says he is now a Buddhist to make money, “only in this way, to save his life.” Let’s admire the courage of this young man.

Back to the topic, the dreaded overtime culture is now prevalent in most Internet companies. One founder even said, “When you succeed in the future, you will thank yourself for the miserable overtime.”

At most companies, overtime becomes a race, and the first person out of the office each day is the loser.

Huawei, Alibaba and NetEase employees’ off-duty hours have been exposed. You can’t beat them by working overtime

The “fast” label of the Internet industry has always been like a double-edged sword: on the one hand, its high salaries have caused millions of young people to flock to it.

996, on the other hand, karoshi, balding, greasy… Also like shadow, overtime prevailing, and even on the Internet companies serious overtime ridicule has become a platitude, gradually evolved a problem without solution: who do not like overtime, but who can not be completely insulated with overtime.

Recently, some media have recorded the off-hours of Huawei, Alibaba and NetEase Internet companies. After reading this, you may understand the price of high salary.

Huawei works a lot of overtime, and as we all know, overtime has even become part of the company’s corporate culture.

Huawei’s office building in Hangzhou is divided into multiple parks. Seen from the main gate, huawei is brightly lit from 20:30 to 00:30.

At 8:30 in the evening, the gate of Huawei park is empty. Maybe you have finished dinner and are watching TV dramas at this time, and no one else has left work.

Until 23:25, huawei gate has the first wave off work small climax, 5 minutes 25 people, 7 private cars, 4 battery cars, one after another out.

00:34 There are people riding donkeys.

Conclusion: Huawei’s off-duty time is concentrated at 23:00. There is an interesting phenomenon that huawei employees are particularly fond of riding donkeys. Low-key, gorgeous, and you can bring someone. A few years ago, ren Zhengfei, who was more than 70 years old, was still queuing for a taxi at the airport and taking the subway in a low-key way. Huawei people are really simple.

We all know that Huawei works overtime a lot, but Ali also has a lot, not to mention the special case of all-night fighting on Double 11. Ali also leaves late after work at ordinary times.

19:55-00:00 alibaba honeycomb, brilliant people.

At 19:56, only a few people left work in front of Ali’s gate.

22:33, Ali people began to go off work, most of them have made an appointment in advance of the special car, non-stop home.

22 o ‘clock and zero is ali off work peak point, 23:52 ali gate back blood.

Ali is as bright as day.

Ali employees off work time concentrated in 21:30~22:00, but after 0 o ‘clock there are people come out. Although slightly inferior to Huawei, most employees go to bed after 0 o ‘clock. Getting beauty sleep is almost out of the question.

Conclusion: Ali’s employees leave work at 21:30~22:00, but there are still people coming out after 0 o ‘clock. In the interview, some employees proudly said, “Ali never forces employees to work overtime. If they can’t finish their work, they can take it home!” Can not help feeling, Internet companies want you to work overtime routine really many…

3. NetEase is no worse than Alibaba

In Hangzhou, NetEase legend is no worse than Ali. Raise a pig can auction 110 thousand yuan of high price, do Yin and Yang division to make the ticket circle are poisoned, cloud village bag subway let many people cry red eyes……

A company can do so much, and their employees aren’t going to be like mules, are they? !

Look at the NetEase Building during 20:55-00:00. NetEase at 8:00 in the evening is like a school, and evening self-study is still going on.

20:48 Evening self-study of the first bell rang, high school students were put out! Race against time to get home, after all, the time limit is less than eight hours.

Nine o ‘clock bus, carrying a group of night return.

22:23 Evening self-study the second bell rang, three sprint class students also came out.

00:13, the last wave of outstanding students go out, finally can shoot all extinguish!

Conclusion: NetEase employees leave work between 21:00 and 22:00. Different from other companies, NetEase employees leave work in twos and threes. It’s like school! It may be related to ding lei’s down-to-earth personality.

4. So are Tencent, JD.com, Xiaomi, 58.com

There is a strange Internet company in Shenzhen, which leaves work at 5:30 am and has a shuttle bus at 6:30 am. No one forces you to work overtime, but people are willing to work overtime for an hour in order to take a decent bus home.

When preparing to take the bus at 6:30, I will think of another system: 8 o ‘clock there is donglaishun working meal: such much, tube full, there is fruit. If you’re going to have to cook for yourself on the shuttle home, volunteer to work an extra hour and eat lunch before you get home.

8 o ‘clock after eating lunch ready to go home, and remembered a company system: 10 o ‘clock after taxi reimbursement. After working more than ten hours a day, who has the energy to squeeze into a bus? Then volunteer to work another two hours.

This company is so humane that it never forces its employees to work overtime. Work till 10:00 p.m., take a cab home. Is also regarded as staff love, the company intends? The company is called Tencent.

This is Tencent’s most widely circulated joke on the Internet, and even some employees agree with it…

But the most embarrassing or, the most serious overtime Tencent shot a heart-tied advertisement calling on people not to work overtime? I mean, as an Internet mogul, doesn’t it hurt your conscience not to lead by example?

“My girlfriend of seven years broke up with me. If I had spent more time with her, things might have been different.”

“In August of last year, my buddy called me and said, ‘I’m married, you’re coming. I can’t come because OF overtime. Then he said a word to me: You want this stupid money not me. Then, no contact.”

“The company had to work over the weekend, so I felt bad about not going back to grandma’s funeral.”

At JD.com, jingdong Cloud management is required to work at least 70 hours a week, and management meetings are held at night and on weekends to avoid normal working hours between 9 am and 7 PM.

At Xiaomi, the working hours are “from 10 to 10”. At 10 p.m., you can still see the lights.

In 58.com, all employees work 996 hours, which means the working time is adjusted to 9am to 9pm, six days a week without any subsidy or overtime pay.

5. There is a huge salary payoff behind the frequent overtime work

The hard work of Huawei and Ali employees is not in vain, and the reward is far beyond our imagination.

Huawei officially announced its full-year financial results for 2017 on March 30. The report shows that Huawei achieved global sales revenue of 603.6 billion YUAN in 2017, up 15.7% year on year; Net profit of 47.5 billion RMB, up 28.1% year on year!

When Huawei officially unveiled its 2017 annual report, the company’s internal staff went crazy, with the most liked comment revealing the secret to Huawei’s revenue: “We sleep less, but we make more.”

The income of Huawei employees is the main focus of attention, with the company’s earnings report showing employee expenses rose 15.1 percent year-on-year to 140.3 billion yuan in the current period of 2017.

The average annual salary of huawei employees was 689,000 yuan in 2017, compared with 596,000 yuan in 2016, based on the amount of wages, salaries and other benefits paid to 180,000 employees and the amount of time unit plan. In one year, the average annual salary per person increased by 93,000 yuan.

This may be the secret of huawei employees’ desperate efforts: competitive compensation, huge annual bonus, and everyone’s share in the dividend.

Therefore, tens of thousands of Huawei people are willing to turn their efforts into money, even if they need to sign a “striver agreement” and voluntarily give up their annual vacation and overtime pay.

An employee who left huawei and started his own business said, “Working in Huawei is as tiring as starting his own business, but he earns more money than being the boss.” Even if you sleep less, it’s worth it because you earn more.

Compared with Huawei, Ali’s salary is also very competitive in the industry. Alibaba is divided into technical posts and management posts. P represents the technical level and M represents the management level.

Ali salary structure: generally 12+1+3=16 salary. Bonuses at the end of the year range from 0 to 6 months of salary, with 90% getting 3 months. The stock is to work full 2 years to take, take 50% for the first time, 4 years can be all taken.

In media interviews, Alibaba employees revealed that there are almost no single men in The company. Ali doesn’t have a job like a car or a house.

Recently, according to the news of science and Technology (Big Fish), an old employee who worked in Ali for seven years posted a post in an online community to thank the company, saying that he had gained three properties through his work in Ali, and that he would strive to gain more wealth in the future.

In Beijing’s Houchang village, you’d be surprised to find that after 9 p.m. Friday, the buildings were still brightly lit, and employees of Internet giants like Sina and Baidu emerged in twos and threes.

Taxis, private cars and company shuttles mingle at the intersection. The trumpet comes in an endless stream, deducing a symphony as if belonging to the Internet.

This makes Houchang Village, a little-known corridor between east and west, a mirror of China’s Internet overtime culture today.

Some people jokingly call it an “island”, geographically it is far away from the bustling area, no life breath; And back at the rental house, home, it was another island.

Sometimes when I looked up from my mechanical and trivial work, I had the illusion that I was a textile worker wearing a headscarf in a large state-owned factory 20 years ago.

All the year round, people here compress their lives in plain and simple space, while eager to live natural and unrestrained, but have to endure the reality, overtime, become every Internet people’s lingering nightmare.

What I hate is not overtime, but the embarrassment of high pay and low return

As professionals, it seems like we hear these complaints all around us:

• “This job is so low value, no achievement at all!”

• “Work overtime or stem these content, the user does not bother me all fast tired!”

• …

Behind these complaints is the mismatch between subjective effort and reward.

The return here not only refers to the material return such as salary and welfare, but also includes the spiritual return such as psychological superiority and satisfaction. The company employs mainly employees to pay money to buy their time, energy, intelligence and physical strength, etc. Under normal circumstances, employees work overtime in the form of sacrificing time.

Which begs the question: Not everyone has the same definition of the value of time!

By most people’s reckoning, an hour of “me time” — even if it’s all for fun — creates more value than overtime. Therefore, it is not important to work overtime, but whether it is worth working overtime.

If I think overtime is valuable, I will give full play to my subjective initiative; If I hate working overtime, I can’t escape the negative mood.

It’s okay for companies to fully mobilize their employees’ initiative, but don’t fall into the trap of “overtime equals productivity.”

Especially for creative, copywriting, technical, design and other related jobs, it is better to be exposed to new things outside than to struggle for time in the office. After all, good ideas never come from “suffering”!

There is a culture of overtime work called “No one else left”

Many of us have experienced this: one morning, the supervisor suddenly called a meeting and said in all seriousness that no one would be allowed to leave the office before 9 o ‘clock.

In a group of people meng force of time, the director said the reason, because some president went to the office last night to turn a circle, found that other departments are working overtime, on our department a person shadow.

So the next night, everyone is competing to see who can leave later, with one goal in mind: waiting for the next department to go first.

Such situations are common, but frankly, the overtime culture of the Internet should be viewed in two ways:

On the one hand, it is necessary to keep abreast of the latest trends due to the vagaries of the industry. Sometimes, the anxiety does not come from competitors, but from changes in the environment. All kinds of unknowns add up to cause the entire industry to tread on thin ice, dare not relax, and overtime is inevitable.

On the other hand, if the company blindly assigns employees a lot of worthless work and overtime becomes the norm, employees will often have the strange feeling of “being busy for most of the day and not knowing what the meaning is”, and this kind of overtime is meaningless.

Some companies even link overtime with effort, making it an integral part of their corporate culture to encourage overtime. This misperception makes overtime a mere formality, losing its original purpose and even becoming an improper standard for judging employees’ performance.

When overtime is associated with corporate culture, it is not conducive to the improvement of the overall efficiency of employees. No matter whether employees desire promotion or not, they will consciously extend working hours.

If overtime is a disease, it should be treated with the right medicine

There are two ways to address the fait accompli of today’s “overtime” culture on the Internet:

If it is because of the company, employees are in a passive position when facing overtime, and it is difficult to completely resist.

So the degree of overtime work becomes an important factor for job seekers to consider their new employer. When Internet companies introduce their advantages, they will also add the item “less overtime work” instead of “no overtime work”.

Because from the CEO down to HR, it is not 100% sure that the company will not work overtime, and job seekers know that the possibility of the company not to work overtime is almost zero, even state-owned enterprises do occasionally work overtime.

If it’s for personal reasons, there are remedies for working overtime that start with eliminating procrastination and increasing personal productivity.

The work will get done sooner or later, so it’s better to get it done before the end of the day and on your own time than to leave it to the end of the day (and the quality of the work is not guaranteed).

When we measure the quality of our work by efficiency rather than time, we find that we may not work as much overtime as we thought.

Recently, a billboard was erected on the road of “Houchang Village”, the aorta of The Internet in China. NetEase, in an unexpected place and in an unexpected way, covered +30+min/ person/day with 95% accurate crowd, making fun of the daily life of a person from Xierqi on the only way that people in Houchang Village must go to work every day.

Success tells us “so many people better than you are still better than you (JIA) effort (ban), you have what qualifications not to (JIA) effort (ban)!”

But hard work is never equal to working overtime. When you look back on your success in the future, you will be grateful not for working overtime, but for your efforts to learn and improve your efficiency.

Since ali “revolution”, put forward the “996” after work, like the Internet industry has been a night have to work overtime of brainwashing for evaluation for the employee hard Numbers, sex Wolf’s judgment to the enterprise standard, is embedded into the enterprise culture, utterly without thinking, whether employees need to work overtime, whether all the employees need to work overtime.

Finally, for 966, let’s do the math:

• A normal working week is 8×5=40 hours.

• In the case of the six-day working system, 8×6=48 hours, an increase of 20 percent in working hours. In fact, weekends tend to come in late and leave early, and productivity isn’t as high, but actually increased by up to 15%.

• If 996,10 ×6=60 hours, the number of working hours increased by 50 percent. However, under the constant 996 state, it is impossible for normal people to maintain their state and efficiency for a long time. In my experience, it actually increases working hours by about 35%.

It’s time to ask your boss questions:

• Q1: Does a 15% to 35% increase in working hours increase your chances of success or survival equally?

• Q2: We all know that the success rate of Internet products is less than 1%. Let’s say it’s 1%. Is it 1.35% what the boss wants?

Go to XX 996, get out of XX 996. Technically, “screw the regular overtime system.”

The Internet industry is so competitive, life is fast and death is fast, so it is hard to say never to work overtime. Every year there is always a rush to catch up with the schedule, when the version, sprint type of temporary overtime is inevitable.

But your company won’t be in a rush to meet the deadline all year round, will it? From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, the boss, you are for what kind?

At a minimum, 996 can cause sudden death, which is murder. On the grand scale, failure to comply with labor laws will eventually lead to a capitalist economic crisis.