Whose wishful thinking is ＂996 working system＂？

Whose wishful thinking is "996 working system"?

Background:Recently, there was a news in the programmer world that someone launched a project called "996.ICU" on the well-known code hosting platform GitHub to resist the 996 working system. This move was immediately responded by a large number of programmers. The so-called 996 refers to working from 9: 00 am to 9: 00 pm every day, and "996.ICU" means "working 996, sick ICU".

China Youth Daily published its opinion:In the legal sense, the legitimacy of the 996 working system is obviously in doubt. It directly converts overtime work into normal working hours for employees, and even wraps this mechanism with words, giving it some cultural and moral colors. For example, those who are willing to accept are regarded as active, enterprising and have dreams, while those who are not active in cooperation may be reprimanded as greedy for comfort and muddling along. In this context, it is almost impossible for individuals to say "no" to this mechanism. It is said that if you don’t accept the 996 working system, you can jump to other industries. Not to mention that this statement avoids the legitimacy of employees’ rights protection, and also ignores that today’s 996 working system is not only a unique phenomenon of Internet startups, but is spreading to more industries. This phenomenon should inspire the labor inspection department to pay more attention and intervention. According to a survey conducted by China Academy of Social Sciences, the average leisure time in Chinese in 2017 was only 2.27 hours. Comparatively speaking, the average leisure time of nationals in the United States, Germany and other countries is about five hours per day, which is more than twice that of Chinese. According to statistics, the prevalence rate of depression in China is 6.1%, and the incidence rate is increasing year by year in recent years … Young people need to struggle, but it is not necessarily a blessing that more and more young people are busy in society "like machines with alarm clocks set". Reducing stress for young people does not only mean reducing their working hours, nor is it just the responsibility of a certain industry or enterprise. It is time to face up to how to decompress young people from the social system level. The rebound of the 996 working system is only an early warning.

Xiaojiang random thoughts:For example, what should I do if I need 10 people to do the work and only find 5 people to do it? Naturally, I can only work overtime. For those who work, the work overload is obvious. For employers, it is "getting twice the result with half the effort". Therefore, whether overtime is the norm and no overtime pay is given, whether it is beautified as corporate culture or dedicated, the essence behind it is that the boss is playing the wishful thinking of saving costs and squeezing employees. As far as the 996 working system faced by many programmers is concerned, there is still a so-called "deserved"-programmers usually have higher income, and "high income naturally bears high pressure". This kind of rhetoric is very confusing. But after careful analysis, the flaw comes. On the one hand, the programmer’s salary is higher because the output value of the high-tech industry is higher; On the other hand, not everyone can do it, and excellent programmers are "rare." In short, the programmer’s high income does not come from the boss’s "gift", but from market pricing. How can high income be a reason for infringing on labor rights and interests? The "overtime culture" also has a strong flicker, comparison and infectivity. For example, look at people’s "well-known enterprises" are so hard, what is the reason why "start-ups" don’t work hard? "Senior talents" dare not slack off. "Ordinary you" miss by going up one flight of stairs. Why are you so embarrassed? On the contrary, the above words turn enterprises and employers into the only way for workers to "succeed", which makes people stunned and must be vigilant! On the issue of labor rights protection, trade unions at all levels, labor rights protection departments,Do it when you should. This is the responsibility, the inevitable requirement of regulating the market, and the proper meaning of governing the country according to law. From a broader perspective, China’s economy has shifted from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage. High-quality development involves not only ecological protection, but also people-oriented.

Xiaojiang’s words:Hello, I’m Xiao Jiang. State affairs, family affairs, what’s going on in the world, there are new things every day. You judge, I judge, everyone judges, and a hundred flowers bloom at your disposal. There are different viewpoints and different angles, as long as we respect objectivity, rationality and justice.