An Internet executive said on Weibo that working overtime is natural. Do you agree?

Of course I disagree. I believe everyone has many reasons, and they all include life outside of work. But we cannot stop here. Instead of opposing overtime as a matter of course, we should reflect on how we should understand overtime correctly.

01? How to correctly understand overtime?

Charge before victory, sprint-style overtime, such as working with developers to launch a new version overnight, of course there is no problem. After all, this is not the norm, and occasional charges can also make people better feel the tension and charge at work. But the fucked up part of reality is that many times you don’t have that much to do, but some weird leaders are crazy people who like to watch their employees work overtime, so you have to work overtime. In fact, you are just wasting your time. Just in the office. For this, if it cannot be changed in the short term, then you still have to work overtime, and arrange some study and self-improvement plans for yourself, because one thing cannot be changed, whether you work overtime or not, this period of time is actually It's your own, can you just waste your time just because the labor and management are here to work overtime today? Obviously not.

Don’t get emotional and wonder why you have to work overtime every day. As a veteran driver in the workplace, what you need to accept is that since you cannot change the status quo, instead of working overtime while hurting your body with emotions, it is better to accept this calmly (the sooner you accept it, the better) and enjoy working overtime.

02? Working overtime is not necessarily politically correct? In the eyes of many people, taking the initiative to work overtime for the company is a very politically correct thing. Some employees even deliberately get off work overtime after get off work before getting off work. First of all, this kind of work habit is not good, because it will make your brain accept it habitually, and I always have time after get off work to deal with it. Then you may spend your time on less important things now. The book "The Philosophy of Retail" points out that one aspect that has greatly improved the operational efficiency of Japan's 7-11 is the ban on employees working overtime. Another problem is what do we do when it sometimes seems like work requires you to work long overtime hours.

First of all, you need to determine whether you are the only one working overtime for a long time or whether there are many people working overtime. If it's the former, you may need to figure out whether your work efficiency is too low or whether you have become a bottleneck at a certain node and have to work overtime. This situation is usually easier to resolve. If it's the latter, it's usually a systemic problem. In the face of a long-standing problem, it is obviously impossible to solve it by relying on individual willpower. Then your efforts are not optimizing the work. On the contrary, your efforts will cover up long-standing problems in the work process, hinder the exposure of the problems, and delay the real solution of the problems. So, you're not working overtime, you're covering up the problem. You can think about it, if long-term overtime work is caused by insufficient manpower, you will inevitably work overtime for a long time until you can't stand it anymore and fall ill. At this time, you will definitely not be able to work. Then the manpower will be even more insufficient, and obviously things will become more complicated. cannot be resolved.

Working overtime itself is not necessarily unreasonable. However, passive overtime work without purpose and improvement for a long time is definitely unreasonable. This is unreasonable because we need to understand and improve areas, and we have to ask for resources and support from leaders. After all, what the leader is more concerned about is whether the matter has been resolved satisfactorily. Only with this understanding can you optimize in reverse. Instead of wasting time working overtime every day, only in this way can you have the opportunity to get a promotion and salary increase and reach the peak of your life, right? What is political correctness is not working overtime without complaint, but truly starting from the perspective of problem solving and advancing work smoothly.

?03 How to work less overtime

Pursue efficiency. Invest the least time and energy in exchange for maximum results and output. Do some time management, improve corresponding skills, etc. For example, office white-collar workers can learn office well and handle forms easily. To be honest, even simply understanding some shortcut keys can save a lot of time in our own work.

Pricing. Put a price on your time. Reduce the "ineffective entertainment time" in your life, have fun, and don't waste time deliberately just for rest. Make effective use of interns, outsourcing and other means.

Filter. Of all the things worth doing, always give priority to those things that are most worth doing. Remember that "there is only one important thing." If everything is important, it is often not important.

Synchronization.

Don’t become a bottleneck for tasks. The most important thing is not to become a bottleneck for information. (If only you know something, then you are not generating value, but becoming a bottleneck.) Finally, no matter whether you work overtime or not, and whether you will get paid for overtime work, one thing is unquestionable, time It's your own. What we all need to think carefully about is how to improve our time utilization, instead of just complaining that I am working overtime again today or should I work overtime? Once you get it, make peace with it, because time is your biggest cost.