□ Bai Xueying (Xi ‘an Jiaotong University)
Recently, after the fire broke out in the tea supermarket in Xuchang, Henan Province, in order to stabilize the quality and avoid employees being too tired, it was announced that employees would leave work three hours early, which caused concern and heated discussion, and then rushed to the hot search. (Spring City Evening News, December 29)
According to reports, on December 27th, Fat Donglai issued an announcement on the adjustment of the business hours of tea supermarkets in Xuchang area. The announcement showed that the business hours of Fat Donglai tea supermarkets in Xuchang area were temporarily reduced to 10:30~18:00 in order to stabilize the management quality, commodity quality and business quality.The official account of Pangdonglai released the winter business schedule on September 2, showing that the working hours from Sunday to Thursday are: 9: 30 ~ 21: 00; The working hours from Friday to Saturday are from 9: 30 to 21: 30.According to the winter business hours, after this adjustment, the working hours of tea supermarket employees are equivalent to delaying their work by one hour in the morning and leaving work at least three hours in advance in the evening, which will reduce the working hours by at least four hours throughout the day.
As soon as the announcement came out, it immediately triggered the praise and empathy of countless netizens: "The migrant workers have got empathy and understanding", "The ceiling level of domestic supermarkets is up", "It is worth promoting nationwide" and "The key to a conscience enterprise is to have a conscience boss".
I don’t know when it started. Overtime has become a normal state: in the past, the work system of big and small weeks, the rotation of single and double breaks was still shady. Now 996 is called the blessing newspaper, and 716, 807 and even 007 have become the culture of many companies. Overtime and involution have gradually become daily, and the bottom line of migrant workers has been refreshed again and again in the game with enterprises. It’s not that I don’t want to say "no" to overtime, but "voluntary overtime", "voluntary salary reduction" and "voluntary resignation" will inadvertently become the "last straw" to crush migrant workers. In recent years, there has been a lot of news about sudden death after working overtime. In such a big environment, compared with high salary, migrant workers hope to have a humane boss and a humanistic corporate culture, instead of continuing to "voluntarily" accept the squeeze while voicing: "Migrant workers’ lives are also lives" and "migrant workers are human beings, not working machines". It is not difficult to understand that the four-hour working hours compressed by companies from Fat East have attracted such great attention from the whole network. Who doesn’t want their company to be "Fat East" too?
Working hours are related to work results, but not necessarily. Instead of extending working hours indefinitely, it is better to formulate a reasonable assessment mechanism to avoid invalid overtime. It seems that nothing is actually produced at work. In order to mix up enough working hours, it is really unnecessary to drag the work that could have been completed in an hour or two for a whole day and stay at the work station with reluctance, even affecting health, greatly reducing work efficiency and ensuring work quality. Yu Donglai, the founder of Fat Donglai, said: "(Employees) are too tired. After a long time, he will get sick, and the quality of his work will also decline.".Although Fat Donglai has reduced the working hours by four hours every day, with such humanistic care, the efficiency and quality of work have also been guaranteed. There are also some companies that allow employees to leave work flexibly after finishing their work, giving employees more autonomy in their work. Isn’t it another kind of humanistic care?
Working hours have been shortened, but humanistic care has increased. Only when there is a benign relationship between enterprises and migrant workers can they be stable and far-reaching. Enterprises should be able to realize that employees are people first, and then workers; Workers should not be "monks who knock bells", but should finish the work efficiently and be considerate of each other. Less 996, more fat east, who said that the life of migrant workers is not life?