What will become of the company when the workforce strictly enforces a double-shift, eight-hour job?

I read a very interesting question on the Internet: What would society itself, the workplace, and the workers be like if society as a whole strictly enforced the double-shift eight-hour working day? Wouldn't everything be better? Wouldn't those 996 companies that eat people die? Will companies that have grown up without the "blessing" of being a stepping stone never develop again?

One high praise answer is: society will become normal.

I think that in both individual and corporate terms, it may not all be ideal, but the overall direction will be good.

1. Work and life

On a superficial level, the immediate impact will be on the working and living conditions of the workers. People are no longer on the inside roles and you no longer have to work endlessly and desperately to pay back over time.

I once spent some time in an automotive joint venture and had a complete and profound experience of the strict eight-hour working status with double shifts, when overtime had to be requested and the request had to go directly to the CEO for approval, once it happened that your department needed to work overtime it became a company-level decision, and the head of the department was under pressure and would be held accountable. Therefore, there is very little overtime work, and overtime pay is also very generous, in addition to regular leave, paid annual leave, and paid high-temperature leave is not less. The company development is not bad at all, the staff income is not low at all, there is a kind of workplace paradise feeling, later and friends exchange, foreign enterprises, some joint ventures, most state-owned enterprises are this kind of paradise.

Like this state, the change to people not only have the body and mind leisure, can pay more attention to the quality of life, attention to family, attention to the people around, the state will become better.

2. Income

Many people will feel that their income will decrease after they become 8 hours. If you look at it from the current perspective, it is true, because the high salary given by 996 companies is equivalent to the purchase of extra time, or even "residual value".

But in practice all companies have become unable to 996 only allowing 8 hours to pass, the issue of income is not simply reduced, it is affected by 2 things.

①Market competition: When there is competition in the market, there will be companies to attract talent to pull up the salary, thus raising the boat. Many foreign Fortune 500 companies pay high salaries not only abroad, but also at home, with little work intensity, and that is how it is.

② whether the company itself has money: rich of course can spend more money to pay salaries to recruit high-precision talents without pain.

At this stage, we can understand that many small companies, companies that have just received financing, in the technology industry to pay high salaries to attract talent inherited the 996 culture, these small and medium-sized enterprises still just want to use the "good" but "cheap" After the strict working holiday system, it means that these companies no longer have such an advantage and will be short of talent and will not develop or will develop very slowly, the whole business market will be reshuffled, small companies will have less chance to develop and big companies will gradually become oligarchs in various fields. But I think this is not a bad thing, cultivating potential stock companies can learn from the more mature nurturing mechanism of other countries, there is a path, purely relying on reducing the price per unit of time of labor costs is a vicious circle.

So, based on this after the normal leave, small and medium-sized enterprises will indeed have a greater probability of reducing the number of employees, because of the impact of the company's strength, the competition between large companies still exists, then the impact is limited. However, if we look at the other side of the coin, we can see that most of the problems are not in the large companies themselves, where most of the highest income groups are concentrated. Therefore, the impact of the adjustment is limited in scope.

3. Efficiency

Will efficiency decrease? No, this is all workplace people know the dirty behind the corporate overtime culture: to grind over time, not work during the day, and stay overtime to do. Anyway, after the shift can not leave, then slowly do, it seems to work well more balanced and reasonable, some efficient to do fast, but also easy to be arranged more work, do more wrong, and finally, overtime culture will all become inefficient over time. This, again, is another involution, another involution underneath the involution of overtime, which is ironic.

So if you were to tell people in the workplace, let's be more efficient and not do unnecessary overtime, everyone would be in favor of it with both hands and efficiency would come up immediately. So much so that my previous company asked if people could do it late on weekdays if they didn't work on Saturdays. Everyone immediately efficiency increased very much because this is beneficial to the employees themselves, not to mention all your overtime is not added.

Most of the time, overtime is a kind of "chaotic" state of company management, such as a large number of meetings held that is a long-term lack of systematic processes, decision-making often changes, etc., resulting in the need to use meetings to make ad hoc decisions, such as a variety of work repeatedly revised and adjusted for a long time that is the decision, management problems, always digging holes in the business These manifestations are themselves immature management is rushing on to let employees work overtime to makeup and cover-up.

Even not to let overtime or cleaning and purification of enterprise management, so the efficiency of the problem itself is not a problem, the biggest problem is that many of the so-called overtime and management chaos of the company if forced not to work overtime, its management will be "back to the original shape" to expose many problems, which is what many companies worry about themselves, but In fact, it is their problem.

4. Company development

Will the development of these companies be affected by this? This is true.

Essentially, if wages remain the same and there is a lot of overtime, then this is a saving in the company's operating costs, and not a small one at that. For example, if a medium-sized company has a revenue of $1 billion a year, the annual salary cost is $50 million +, and 996 high-intensity over time, the elimination of overtime means that one person does the work of two or even three people, but now it is no longer possible. We assume that this kind of company he management efficiency and can not improve, then it means that need to recruit twice or even three times the people to solve the problem, or maybe even four times five times, because the more grassroots staff, the more management level, the final wage costs may reach 200 million +, which greatly compressed the company's profit margin.

And the previous hypothesis, the company can not improve management efficiency, is precisely the same, as the third point, this process to purify the enterprise is to improve the management efficiency of the process, many enterprises are eliminated is will face the cost of raising and face difficulties. And really can manage to improve the business, the blame process is also painful and long, and its response process is nothing more than raising costs to face.

Of course, this problem is understood in another way, is it not because these companies are now too comfortable? Low costs and high profits?

So, on the whole, the state of individuals after compulsory leave is much better, and the workplace culture is much more normal. For companies it is a painful process, the days of easy money are not so easy, and they need to use the advantages of management to replace the low labor costs. This process will purge and eliminate a lot of businesses.

But, this must be a necessary process, for any large enterprise, the worlds top 500 are not crude management on the way up, but contains the staff, as a human individual reasonable statement on full respect and meet the above management perfection, management culture to become a large and strong enterprise.