Xinhua questioned Internet companies "996" working time: cut go-996, overtime-IT information
Remember a few years ago saw one joke, saying Beijing cabbies are accustomed to Zhongguancun in the middle to lie, because there IT and Internet companies often work overtime, employees of these companies will always stay up till midnight to leave. Similar jokes, perhaps to some extent proved to work overtime are Internet companies exist in the "unspoken rules", except that it was a piece of news babes, and also implement "996" swirls of some Internet companies embroiled in public opinion.
"Work culture" is very common in China, almost every company's leadership likes to work hard, depending on the overtime for ordinary employees, and employees as a model for good employees to such praise and publicity. It's okay, but if corporate managers use various means to force the staff to become "workaholics", it was not normal.
Man machine, need to have family life outside of work, entertainment and leisure, which is the legitimate rights and interests of employees. Meet employees of this right is both an embodiment of enterprise social responsibility and human, but also vitality, prerequisite to achieve sound development.
Some well-known Internet companies in the world understands this. The company not only offers competitive pay, their benefits or to envy. Which one is the working time of employees is relatively free, the company will not force employees work all day long. This shows that the boss is a kind of good person? Obviously not, seemingly behind flexible, comfortable working environment, is a harsh assessment tasks and selection criteria. Funny thing is, under this seemingly contradictory philosophies, the creative potential of employees had been mobilized, companies develop generation after generation of epoch-making products. Thus forming a virtuous circle: enterprise through innovative, disruptive products to develop the market and reap high profits and employees of money into research and development of new products and improvements, attract more high-quality talent to join, bring the next round of product upgrades.
Looking back at most of the Internet companies in the country, it's hard to really come up with innovative products, all squeezing into an already saturated mature markets hard to play the "zero-sum game." They earn meagre profits is not even enough to develop new products, may also be used to improve treatment of employees? In order to remain competitive, enterprises had to tell employees "sike", forcing employees to work overtime. It also forms a loop, is nothing but an endless loop: employees working in harsh conditions, struggling all day, even can not guarantee the quality of sleep, how innovative? Company innovation is weak, you have to continue to "Red Sea" more competition in more deep, scrape by. From this point of view, forcing employees to work overtime is enterprises cut your way out of a bad chess move.
Innovation is the impetus to lead the development of the first true emotion to the rationale. And whether the company forced employees to work overtime, in fact, is how innovation, how to treat the problem of the employee in the role of innovation. All companies, including Internet companies, outlets are innovative, in order to seek long-term development must be innovative, out of the "Red Sea", kill a piece of their own "Blue Ocean". Treat employees, giving them a minimum of humanity, not only can let businesses off the moral condemnation of the pressure of public opinion, will also provide continuous power for innovation.
新华社质疑互联网企业“996”工作制：自断生路 - 996,加班 - IT资讯
记得几年前看过一个段子，说的是北京的哥习惯于半夜去中关村趴活，因为那儿的IT、互联网企业经常加班，这些公司的员工总是熬到半夜才会离开。类似的笑话，或许在某种程度上证明了加班是互联网企业中存在的“潜规则”，只不过它被一则新闻道破，也让实行“996工作制”的某互联网公司深陷舆论漩涡。
“加班文化”在中国其实很普遍，几乎每个公司的领导都喜欢工作拼命、视加班为家常便饭的员工，并会把这样的员工当作优秀雇员的典范加以褒奖和宣传。这当然无可厚非，但如果企业管理者动用各种手段逼迫员工成为“工作狂人”，就有点不正常了。
人非机器，需要有工作之外的家庭生活、娱乐休闲，这是员工的合法权益。而满足员工的这种权利，既是一个企业应尽的社会责任和人性化的体现，也是企业保持活力，实现良性发展的前提。
世界上一些知名的互联网企业就深谙此道。这些公司不仅能提供极具竞争力的高额薪酬，他们的福利也好到令人羡慕。其中有一条，就是员工的上班时间相对自由，公司不会逼员工成天加班。这说明老板是个仁慈的好人吗？显然不是，看似灵活、舒适的工作环境背后，是近乎苛刻的考核任务和选人标准。有趣的是，在这种看似矛盾的管理哲学之下，员工们的创新潜能却被调动起来，企业也开发出一代又一代划时代的产品。由此形成了一个良性循环：企业通过创新性、颠覆性的产品开拓了市场，攫取了超高的利润，然后再把资金投入到新产品研发和员工待遇改善方面，吸引更多高素质的人才加入，带来下一轮产品技术升级。
反观国内的大多数互联网企业，很难真正拿出创新产品，大家都挤在一个已经饱和的成熟市场中艰难地玩着“零和游戏”。他们赚取的微薄利润连研发新产品都不够，怎么可能还会用来改善员工待遇？为了保持竞争力，企业只好跟员工“死磕”，逼员工加班。这也形成了一个循环，只不过是死循环：员工在恶劣的工作条件下，整天疲于奔命，连睡眠质量都保证不了，何谈创新？而公司创新乏力，就不得不继续在“红海”竞争中愈陷愈深，勉强度日。从这个角度说，逼员工加班是企业自断生路的一招臭棋。
创新是引领发展的第一动力，此言至情至理。而公司是否逼员工加班，其实是一个如何看待创新，如何看待员工在创新活动中扮演什么角色的问题。包括互联网企业在内的所有公司，出路都在创新，要想谋求长远发展，必须通过创新，游出那片“红海”，杀出一片属于自己的“蓝海”。而善待员工，给予他们最起码的人性关怀，不仅可以让企业摆脱道德谴责的舆论压力，也将为创新创造提供源源不断的动力。