Over the weekend, a piece of news sparked a heated discussion among the majority of "office workers". According to reports, a woman left her job and quit more than 600 work groups in one go. According to the parties, they are engaged in the real estate design of shopping malls, and each shopping mall has hundreds of stores, and it is necessary to review the store design drawings one by one, so it has accumulated more than 600 groups.
I have to reply to messages at any time every day, and my nerves are always tense "......The 600 work groups "are of course extreme cases and have a lot to do with the nature of the work of the parties. But this feeling of "always being bombarded by group news" can't help but make everyone feel related. I don't know when there have been more and more work groups in WeChat. The company's new project, first build a group;The unit pushes a new job, first pull a group;The team performs a task and then comes out in small groups to ......All work must have a group, and if there is no group, it seems that there will be no work.
The large number of work groups makes many "workers" like a fish in the throat, not only because they may be @ anytime and anywhere, but also because it has become a kind of "tight spell", no matter when, as long as the WeChat prompt sounds, it will be "tight". All kinds of notifications are constant, all kinds of "received" swiping the screen, it seems very simple, but there is often unspeakable tension and anxiety behind the screen.
Objectively speaking, based on the characteristics of immediacy and convenience, everyone can break the limitations of time and space to brainstorm and collide, and the WeChat work group is of course a powerful tool to improve work efficiency. But when everything is too much, when the work group becomes more and more like a basket and everything is loaded into it, it is likely to backfire.
First, increase the burden of useless information. The use of WeChat groups can indeed reduce the number of notification transactions, but due to the information flow nature of the group itself, the people related to the notification have to pay attention to the group messages at all times to prevent information from being missed. In addition, many temporary transactions are also notified in the group, and many unrelated people are also coerced into reading messages and replying messages. This is actually the same nature as the "accompaniment" that everyone often complains about. All of this is a considerable drain on working time and energy.
Second, blurring the boundaries of work and rest. Today, we work at a tight and busy pace, and overtime is common. It is true that it is inevitable to encounter urgent, difficult, dangerous and heavy tasks at work, and it is inevitable to be summoned by work WeChat temporarily. However, looking at those non-stop WeChat prompts, is every sound necessary?
There is no doubt that dedication, hard-working and hard-working should be advocated, but this does not mean that the working hours are extended indefinitely and the rest time is compressed. Pragmatic, efficient, and relaxed, is a more scientific rhythm of work. The effect of "moments" in the name of work may not be good. For example, some experts have pointed out that the optimal working hours of a person in a week are about 50 hours, and when the working hours of a week reach 90 hours, the results are almost the same as 55 hours. This also means that overtime consumes time to a certain extent, so how can we talk about efficiency?
Third, exacerbate mobile phone dependence. According to relevant surveys, adults in China use mobile phones for as many as 105 minutes a day. For office workers, this time is probably only longer. If you don't open your phone or WeChat for a few minutes, you always feel that something is missing, which subtly affects people's mental state. A few years ago, an experiment of "fasting on social networks" showed that shortening the time spent on WeChat can lead to a significant decrease in negativity and a significant increase in work engagement.
There are two sides to technology. More and more people are realizing that "man-made service and man-made group service" must not be the gospel of society in the heavy burden of information and "reins". At the end of the day, there are not many work groups. It is necessary to pay attention to the boundaries and exercise restraint.
*:Beijing**Client Commentator Chao Xing.