This year, "post-00s" entered the workplace for the first time.
On social media, they are portrayed as "workplace rebels", and they seem to be affixed with the label of "if there is a disagreement, the labor arbitration will take place, and they will refuse to introvert and resolutely do not work overtime."
In fact, while "post-00 refuses to work overtime" and other hot searches, they also have a side of "supporting the edge" and "rushing and rushing". After hearing the following statements, you will find that "post-00" is very important for work The definition includes both struggle and effort, as well as the struggle for one's own rights and interests.
To work overtime or not to work, for them, it is an essay question, not an either-or multiple-choice question.
Workplace Scan
"My duty schedule is 'White Night Off'"
Narrator: Xiao Xue
Age: Post-95
Job: First-tier city police officer
Overtime frequency: not fixed
After graduating from Public Security University in 2019, I first went to work at a grassroots police station, and then I was transferred to Internet Security.
We do not call overtime here, but "on duty".
Police stations across the country are the same, and they all have to be on duty.
That is, on Mondays (9 to 6), on Tuesdays for 24 hours, you can rest on Wednesdays (but some police stations have a lot of work, and they have to go to work on Wednesdays).
In general, Thursdays are also available for rest, but few people get the time off.
A new cycle begins on Friday.
When there is a major security event, we call it "smithing" internally. At this time, we will arrange a large night shift for 2 days.
When working at the police station, my nerves are always tense, and there is a police call. I have to arrive at the scene within 5 minutes, day and night, rain or shine.
A police station may send forty or fifty police officers a day.
My own day at most had 10 police calls.
This is our normal work, in addition to daily security maintenance, such as going to schools, hospitals, etc., often escorting the children during the rush to and from school, and then returning to the police station to handle the case.
Later, I left the police station to work in cybersecurity.
Some people think that Internet security is "just knocking on the computer", but eyesight, brainpower, and concentration are indispensable.
Darknet crimes, cross-border gambling, hacker attacks, tracking down rumors, ensuring the security of major conference networks, etc. are all tasks of cybersecurity, but they are far more than just these.
Our daily work is in the office, but we also need to "on duty" once a week, and eye drops have become a necessity.
Public security officers work hard, and this is the case all over the country.
To put on this police uniform, we must have the courage to take responsibility, fight continuously, and be dedicated to our work. After all, the people and the country need us.
"My overtime rhythm is 'with @ with you'"
Narrator: Lang Li
Age: Post-95
Occupation: Head of the department of a large Internet company
Frequency of overtime: anytime @ anytime
My work unit is a veritable big factory.
For me, there is no concept of working overtime and not working overtime, and I never seem to actually get off work.
I call it "with @ with".
My working hours are theoretically 10 am to 7 pm, but our mobile phones must be turned on 24 hours a day, and the leader may call or @ you at any time to let you finish a job immediately.
I was woken up at 2am and asked to make a plan right away and turn it in at 4am.
But I can't handle the plan alone, and I need the following colleagues to provide data. At this time, I have to call my colleagues one by one.
The problem is that some colleagues simply can't wake up.
Some people may ask, do leaders not sleep?
In fact, each leader's schedule is different. Once there are more leaders, their schedules will be seamlessly connected.
Since I came to Dachang, my friends have invited me to eat and go shopping less frequently.
Once, I managed to make a dinner appointment with another sister who works in a large factory, and we both faced the boiling hot pot and hugged each other's computers "crackling".
"The teacher didn't say anything after I refused to work overtime"
Narrator: Chen Hai
Age: After 00
Occupation: Clerk of a land resource company
Frequency of overtime: almost every day
I just graduated from college last year and joined this land resources company. Because of the company's large scale, I feel very at ease.
However, just after a week of work, my steadfastness was replaced by anxiety.
This feeling of unease first came from the teacher who took me during the probationary period. He was 10 years older than me, and his daily work was the "007" system, and he basically did not go home.
In the first week, he arranged for me to go on a business trip, and traveled to 4 cities in 6 days.
Once, I received a call from him on the return high-speed train, asking me to return to the city where I was on a business trip to complete an urgent task. At that moment, I felt that the future was passing by in a hurry like the scenery passing by the window.
On Friday of the second week, just before get off work, the teacher came to me and told me that he would call me on weekends.
I blurted out almost instinctively, "Don't call me on weekends, my phone is off, I'll talk about it on Monday."
At that moment, all my colleagues around me raised their heads and looked at me. The teacher was relatively calm, turned around and left without saying anything.
Since then, I haven't taken extra classes on weekends, and the teacher's attitude towards me has not changed, which surprised me a bit, but I am still very happy, which shows that my resistance is useful.
Later, I felt that I could not accept the company culture and work nature of this company. On the last day of the probationary period, I went to the company's personnel department to go through the resignation formalities directly with the materials for normalization.
"Companies say overtime is to work harder than other companies"
Narrator: a short paragraph
Age: Born in 1998
Job: Security company
Frequency of overtime: almost every day
At this stage, as long as your efforts are proportional to your gains, overtime is completely acceptable.
I am engaged in operation and maintenance work in a small company, and I work overtime almost every day. My colleagues are like me. Everyone is accustomed to overtime and hardly complains.
I just graduated and cherish the opportunity to work in this listed company, and I am still in the probationary period. In order to become a regular, I really want to work hard to gain recognition.
The company has a half-day shift on the first Saturday of every month.
The company's explanation for this is that the company started from scratch. It used to be a big and small weekly system (single and double weekend cycles) a long time ago, but now it has been changed to double weekends, but we must not forget the days of struggle to make a fortune, and always work a little bit harder than other companies.
In my opinion, this kind of overtime culture is "reasonable". If a person only works 8 hours a day, but the industry he is in has been growing, and the people around him have been "rolling", he will be eliminated sooner or later.
The last time I worked overtime was until 4:00 a.m. to upgrade the equipment for the customer. Because the customer's environment was different from the experimental environment, I could only call on the spot to ask other colleagues to solve the problem.
This event allowed me to accumulate experience and improve my ability to do things.
Since I joined the company for more than two months, I have only enjoyed two weekends, and I have been working overtime recently. Because the company is engaged in cyber offensive and defensive drills, I need to "work three shifts".
In fact, I like the feeling of rapid growth, which means that my work is challenging and room for growth.
In my opinion, working overtime is easy to understand, that is, how much work is done for how much money I give, I do my best for the company, and the company gives me material and spiritual rewards.
"The video can be changed, but I'm off work"
Narrator: Xiao Zheng
Age: Born in 1999
Job: Company content operation
Frequency of overtime: almost every day
"It can be changed, but I've already got off work." After editing the video four or five times in a row until after 10 o'clock in the evening, I finally said this sentence.
I have just started working for less than five months. I am currently working as a copywriter in a new technology start-up company in Shanghai. I have a single day off every week. The prescribed working hours are from 10 am to 7 pm, but the employees in the company work until 10 pm Most are normal things.
My job content is that one person is responsible for the operation of the entire official account. In addition to copywriting, I am also responsible for video editing. The workload is far more than expected, which is more than 50% more than the work content mentioned in the entry interview.
After receiving the task of editing videos for the first few times, I accepted the arrangement with a learning attitude, but later found that every time I cut a video, the leader would not explain the problem clearly at one time, for example, I matched all the subtitles. Later, he said that the material was not good, so I had to do all the content all over again.
And this job was often assigned to me when I was about to get off work, telling me to "hurry up", but when I finished editing the video and sent it to DingTalk at around 10 o'clock in the evening, the information remained unread until noon the next day.
In my opinion, there must be life outside of work, and work arrangements must be well-organized to reduce unnecessary wear and tear.
So, that time I couldn't help it and clearly refused.
But the rejection didn't make me very happy. Instead, I felt a lot of anxiety and began to worry about my career path.
Will this rejection offend the leadership?
Am I less hard-working than my colleagues?
Will these affect my future career plans?
I think that in the so-called "post-00s to rectify the workplace", the daring of post-00s to refuse to work overtime is more due to the advantages of age and the financial support provided to their parents and families.
So I sometimes think that when the post-00s are older, it may be easier to accept overtime.
Expert opinion
Labor laws have clear limits on overtime
Departments at all levels should be more active in law enforcement and other aspects
Regarding the issue of overtime, a senior labor law expert and lawyer of Beijing Zhongyin Law Firm, Kou Yingjie, who has represented labor relations disputes for many years, said that Article 41 of the "Labor Law of the People's Republic of China" stipulates that "the employer shall, due to the needs of production and operation, cooperate with the labor union after consulting with the labor union. The working hours may be extended after consultation with the workers, generally no more than one hour per day; if it is necessary to extend the working hours due to special reasons, the extended working hours shall not exceed three hours per day under the condition of ensuring the health of the workers, but not more than three hours per month. more than 36 hours”, there is a basic legal guarantee for the physical and mental health of workers.
Individual units stipulate in the enterprise system that if the enterprise requires employees to work overtime, employees must obey, and non-obedience constitutes a violation of discipline, etc., which are illegal. For overtime, unless it involves the national economy and people's livelihood, rescue and disaster relief, etc., workers can absolutely refuse.
However, in reality, workers are naturally at a disadvantage in their relationship with the company. Many workers choose to work overtime voluntarily in order to keep their jobs. In this process, the company has more initiative. Due to the lack of government supervision, the legitimate rights and interests of workers are often not guaranteed.
The rights and interests of practitioners depend on protection from all aspects.
The law should further regulate unreasonable working hours and unreasonable employment patterns.
In particular, some legal norms to regulate the employment model of flexible employment groups have been introduced to make up for the current legal deficiencies and loopholes.
In terms of law enforcement, government regulatory authorities should play a supervisory role, formulate regulatory mechanisms of different levels and intensities for different industries, and should also strengthen early warning mechanisms, strengthen pre-event, in-process, and post-event supervision, and formulate regular and irregular inspection mechanisms.
In terms of new formats, platform companies that violate the legitimate rights and interests of workers in new formats should be promptly investigated and dealt with, and serious violations should be announced.
Relevant departments should also take active actions. The guidance on safeguarding the labor security rights and interests of workers in the new form of employment also pointed out that trade unions at all levels should play a role, courts and labor dispute mediation and arbitration institutions at all levels should strengthen guidance on handling labor disputes, and human resources at all levels should be strengthened. Social security administrative departments should increase labor security supervision, and functional departments such as transportation, emergency response, and market supervision at all levels, as well as industry competent departments, should standardize business operations.
For individual workers, when their legitimate rights and interests are violated, they can actively speak out in trade unions and collectives and other organizations, be a caring person, and leave relevant overtime evidence.
Only when the whole society participates in the labor supervision mechanism can an ecological model that is conducive to the sustainable development of labor production be formed.
This edition of the article / reporter Zhang Ziyuan Zhu Jianyong Chen Jing intern Sun Zhe Zhang Xingyu Niu Xiumin Cai Xueqin Huang Zihang
Illustration / Yuan Guoming Coordination / Lin Yan Zhang Bin
Questionnaire
Are you willing to accept overtime?
In the eyes of many business managers, post-00s are groups with strong personalities who do not like to work overtime.
Many post-00s told the Beiqing Daily reporter that they were not unwilling to work overtime, but hoped that "payment is meaningful". If they can get the due labor results after paying, they will not particularly reject overtime work.
In a "2022 College Student Questionnaire Report", in response to the question of whether to accept overtime, the answers given by 3,594 2022 undergraduates showed that more than half of the freshmen were willing to accept overtime for their salary, and nearly 30% of the freshmen felt very uncomfortable. It's hard to accept, but it will take a while.
These answers show that, different from the stereotyped image of "post-00s", they seem to have a lot of complaints about overtime, but they show full resilience and tolerance.