Overtime seems to have become a part that everyone in the workplace has to go through, and it seems to have become an inevitable part of modern workplace culture.
Driven by the pursuit of employees' own career development and the pursuit of maximizing benefits, overtime has become the norm at work.
Whether it is an individual employee or an enterprise, overtime is because of money.
When I was in college, whether I was at school or at home during the holidays, there was nothing unattainable about working part-time, only whether I was willing to do it.
For the "ten dollars an hour", I cut vegetables in the back kitchen with thick smoke, ran around the hotel corridors, and handed out flyers on the street all morning, just to have a little more money in my pocket.
You can buy what you want and eat what you want.
Therefore, whether to accept overtime or not depends not on how much money I can make, but on how much money I lack at the moment.
From a labor perspective, the underlying meaning of overtime represents the effort of labor beyond normal working hours, as well as the sacrifice of personal rest and recreation time.
Psychological research has shown that long-term overwork is an important cause of burnout, health problems, and even the intensification of family relationship conflicts.
Therefore, overtime should not be simply understood as an exchange of time and money, it is more related to the quality of life and happiness of the individual. Therefore, the reason for working overtime is to improve the quality of life and happiness.
Going to work normally is no longer satisfying happiness
First of all, we need to be clear that China is a country with a large population and uneven economic development.
Most enterprises will not have an 8-hour working system and a two-day rest system, but due to regional differences and the existence of industry characteristics, the state is also facing certain difficulties in fully implementing the 8-hour working system and two-day rest system.
China's economy is growing at a very fast pace and the pressure of competition is huge, and in some industries, companies may impose more working hours on employees due to high market demand and fierce competition.
In this case, employees have to work overtime to improve the company's productivity and meet customer needs.
Although relevant laws and regulations have been introduced to limit overtime hours, there is still a problem of insufficient supervision in the implementation process.
Some people want to work voluntarily in exchange for more money through time; Some people want to commute to work normally and enjoy life; Some people say, why do I work overtime, because the salary is too low, and I rely on overtime; Some people say, why should I give you a high salary, you are not worth so much.
There are always several opinions on a thing, and everyone has their own reasons.
The traditional Chinese concept of work has also played a certain role in this.
For a long time, Chinese generally believed that "hard work can bring success".
In this way, overtime is seen as a way to earn more and advance their professional status, so many people voluntarily work overtime.
At the same time, the imbalance in the protection of rights and interests between enterprises and employees is also a problem.
Some employers may take advantage of employees' needs to force them to accept long hours or continuous work.
In such cases, employees often choose to suffer in silence for fear of losing their job opportunities.
This kind of malice between enterprises and employees has also caused many people to find it difficult to commute normally.
Whether it is a voluntary overtime worker or a forced overtime worker, it is because the normal commute does not improve their quality of life and happiness.
Secondly, the average person has a very low salary base salary and cannot improve their quality of life and happiness.
If you are a normal part-time worker in a second- or third-tier city, with a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan, it is considered to be above average. After deducting five insurances and one housing fund, what you can get in your hand is about 8,000 yuan.
1. Cost of living
You live alone in the city, you don't live in your parents' house, and of course you have to rent a house.
Rent a nice bachelor apartment or share a nice house, and the miscellaneous expenses of water and electricity are calculated, and the monthly rental cost is about 2500.
So, 8000 minus 2500, you have 5500 yuan left in your hand.
2. Food expenses
Although you try to save money by cooking every month, your busy work often makes you choose to take out or eat out, and three meals a day, even if it is economical, it will cost about 1,500 a month.
Now, there is 4,000 yuan left in the wallet.
3. Human exchanges
Life is not only about rent and food, but also about the inevitable cost of socializing.
There will always be a few dinners a month, a holiday season, and gifts, and even if you are very frugal, set aside 500 a month to deal with these.
The rest is 3500 yuan.
4. His daily expenses
Mobile phone bills, transportation payments, and occasional entertainment expenses can easily cost 1,000 yuan a month.
Well, now I still have 2,500 yuan in my hand.
Not counting daily necessities such as clothes, shoes, cosmetics, not to mention sudden medical expenses or family emergencies.
In this way, saving 2,500 yuan a month seems a bit reluctant.
And this is already a relatively ideal situation, but in fact, the vast majority of ordinary people have a monthly salary of 5,000, deducting living needs, social and unexpected expenses, and there is less left in a month's salary.
Therefore, monthly salary is indeed an important factor for most people to consider whether to accept overtime.
Surveys have shown that young people who are just starting out in the workforce may be more receptive to the reality of overtime if they can bring more than 20% increase in income.
For middle-aged people with heavier family responsibilities and a more stable pace of life, unless the increase in monthly salary can significantly improve the quality of family life, their resistance to overtime work may be stronger.
Overtime?
No, I'm going to choose for myself!
The current working environment and living environment seem to be "forcing" us to work overtime.
But there are also people who choose to live with a calm mind.
As the saying goes, different people have different life needs and value orientationsSome people may value material life and career development, and are willing to give more time in exchange for a higher income.
Others, on the other hand, value their personal time and mental pursuits, have a lower tolerance for overtime, and are more mindful of their current lives.
In recent years, the state has also paid more attention to the phenomenon of overtime, and in order to improve the quality of life and happiness of the people, a series of measures have been taken to promote the implementation of the 8-hour working day and the two-day rest system.
For example, formulate and revise relevant labor laws and regulations, increase the investigation and punishment of illegal overtime, and encourage enterprises to provide more leave benefits.
These are positive measures that help to promote the rational arrangement of working hours and the protection of employees' right to rest.
In general, breaking the phenomenon of overtime being the norm requires the joint efforts of enterprises and individuals.
* The supervision of relevant laws and regulations should be strengthened to improve the effectiveness of law enforcement; Enterprises should pay attention to the workload and quality of life of employees, and establish a good working environment; Individuals should also improve their self-awareness, arrange work and rest time reasonably, and ensure physical and mental health.