The company's large group, area group, department group, store group, project group, rectification feedback group ......On the eve of the Spring Festival, Yu Xin, who works as a store supervisor in a chain restaurant in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, wanted to send a photo with her baby to her parents in her hometown in Jiangxi, but when she kept scrolling down the WeChat page and flipping through countless groups, it took a while to find the family WeChat group. "My life was overwhelmed by work groups. Yu Xin said. Yu Xin has as many as 56 WeChat work groups at the top. Yu Xin is not the only one who is trapped by the group. After work and during holidays, those WeChat work group message reminders that pop up at any time make more and more employees have no boundaries between work and life. (February 19, "Worker**.")
Driven by the wave of digitalization, workgroups have become the new normal for workplace communication. However, when the message reminders of the work group endlessly encroach on our personal time, when the "please reply received" has become a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, people in the workplace are facing an unprecedented "group difficulty". This is not only a test of work efficiency, but also a serious challenge to the physical and mental health and quality of life of employees.
We have to admit that the original intention of building a working group is to reduce the level of information transmission and improve communication efficiency. However, with the expansion of enterprise scale and business increase, the number and activity of work groups have also increased exponentially. This disorderly expansion and abuse has turned the work group from a convenient tool into a heavy burden. People in the workplace seem to be pulled by countless invisible threads, always on standby, and it is difficult to enjoy a moment of peace.
This "24-hour standby" mode of work is not only a deprivation of workers' rest time, but also a drain on their energy. Workers need to maintain a high level of attention and responsiveness at all times in order to respond to task instructions that may arise at any time. This kind of long-term uninterrupted mental tension will not only affect work efficiency, but also may lead to physical and mental exhaustion of employees, and even induce various occupational diseases.
What's more serious is that "* overtime" has become a tacit unspoken rule in the workplace. In addition to formal working hours, employees also need to reply to various messages and deal with various emergencies in the work group. This kind of unquantifiable overtime is not only difficult to get due compensation, but also difficult to be recognized by society and law. The rights and interests of workers are invisibly infringed, and companies often shirk their responsibilities in the name of "voluntary overtime" or "flexible working system".
To solve this dilemma, enterprises first need to govern at the source. Establish a reasonable management system for work groups, strictly control the number and activity of work groups, and avoid disorderly expansion and abuse. At the same time, an efficient information collection platform should be built to liberate workers from massive work groups and disorderly information flow. Through the integration and classification of information through technical means, workers can more clearly grasp the work dynamics and task requirements, and reduce ineffective communication and duplication of work.
In addition, the law and all sectors of society should also take active action to provide strong support and protection for workers. Improve relevant laws and regulations, clarify the identification standards and compensation mechanisms for "overtime", and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers. At the same time, labor inspection and law enforcement should be intensified, and illegal enterprises should be severely cracked down on and punished. All sectors of society should also actively promote a healthy workplace culture and create a good atmosphere of respect for and care for workers.
Of course, people in the workplace themselves also need to learn to plan reasonably, draw a clear boundary between work and life, and refuse to use meaningless "overtime". At the same time, we actively seek opportunities for career development and ability improvement, improve our own value and competitiveness, so as to gain more initiative and voice in the workplace.
Chuncheng Evening News-Kaiping News Special Commentator Wang Qi.
Editor-in-charge: Yuan Xi.
Responsible proofreading by Lu Shicheng.
Editor-in-chief: Yan Yun.
Final Review: Editorial Board Member Li Rong.