How do you feel about your boss criticizing employees who leave work early?

Recently, Nanjing, Jiangsu. A girl got off work on time at 6 p.m., but her boss criticized her on WeChat and told her not to leave work on time. Ms. Sun said that she worked as a clerk in the company. She went to work at 9:30 am and got off work at 6 pm. She had already finished her work that day and got off work at 6 o'clock as usual. Unexpectedly, she was criticized by her boss for asking her to finish her work. , and you have to turn off the computer after 6 o'clock, which she doesn't quite understand. (December 8 Jimu News) This incident reached the top of the hot search list, triggering collective complaints from netizens. I don’t know since when, overtime has become the “standard” to measure the hard work of workers. Employees are also competing desperately to see who can work overtime better. Some people are even reprimanded by their leaders for “not working overtime”. In fact, working overtime is a very common thing for workers. After all, everyone has times when they can’t finish their work at work. But is it really wrong to leave work on time when the work tasks have been completed? Going to work on time and leaving on time are the basic principles that employees should follow. However, the "involution" phenomenon in today's society is serious. 996 has become a rule for going to work, and working overtime has become a culture. "You can't leave until the leader leaves" and "Even if you finish your work, you can only turn off the computer after get off work" has become a tacit rule within the company. Leaders no longer evaluate employees based on work quality and results, but on visible working hours. The TV series "I'm fine in a foreign country" showed such a scene, where Hu Jingjing, played by Jin Jing, was fired by her boss. She asked her boss for the reason for her dismissal, but the boss said: "Are you the one who works the least overtime in your entire project development team?" Hu Jingjing refuted that she left early because all the work was completed. At the same time, she said that even if she worked overtime, she would not get a salary increase. , but her boss taught her: working overtime is not just about money. Most leaders have the same view on employees' "getting off work at the right time". In their eyes, getting off work has long been a sign of poor work attitude, that is, not working seriously. Leaders like to create a scene where employees forget about food and sleep and work hard, and they deceive themselves and others by treating overtime hours as employees' diligence. Excessively long working hours will not necessarily increase employees' work processing capacity, but will reduce employees' work efficiency. A study conducted by the American Social Market Foundation showed that "happy employees contribute an average of 20% more productivity than passive employees." Within a fixed period of time, employees will focus more on performance related to their own interests, thereby improving work efficiency and realizing a cyclical increase in the company's interests, leadership interests and employee interests. If working hours are too long, employees will experience a sharp increase in stress, physical fatigue, mental slack, reduced work motivation, and even health problems. Time input is not necessarily proportional to actual output, and there is no necessary connection between whether the work is completed and the length of overtime. Overtime is to solve problems, not for the overtime itself. If the work is completed on time, what's wrong with leaving get off work on time while ensuring quality and efficiency? Commuting to and from get off work on time and not working overtime does not mean that there is a problem with your work attitude or poor performance. On the contrary, working overtime and forgetting to eat and sleep may sometimes be a sign of a lack of efficiency and work ability. What any company really needs is not "fake hard work" employees, but employees who are really doing practical things. It is the employee's obligation to complete the work as required, and it is the employee's right to leave work on time. The ability to be efficient and outstanding is the employee's capital to leave work on time. Get off work on time after completing your work tasks, that’s right! In fact, this is not the first time that similar news has been broken. Previously, employees were reminded, warned and even criticized by company leaders for "getting off work on time". On relevant social media platforms, the above-mentioned news has been read 400 million times, with tens of thousands of comments from netizens. Mr. Gong believes that it is not that everyone insists on giving an explanation for these few minutes, but by supporting "getting off work on time" to express some subtext: Can there be less unnecessary overtime and "involution"? Can a sense of presence in the workplace be achieved without relying on working hours? Can it become the norm for employees to get off work on time and have the "freedom to get off work" instead of being something they "want to do but dare not do"? Some people believe that getting off work on time is actually a kind of ability.

It means that being able to get off work on time means being able to plan work content and time scientifically and reasonably, being able to complete work tasks and expectations efficiently with quality and quantity, being able to execute without procrastination, and being able to handle the relationship between work and life well. etc. In the final analysis, both bosses and employees should strive for work efficiency and work quality, rather than focusing too much on working hours and superficial skills - this is a more scientific and sustainable way of working. Such a corporate culture will bring greater benefits to the company. Not only in our country, whether we should get off work on time is actually being discussed in other countries. In 2019, in the Japanese drama "I, Get Off Work on Time", the characters in the drama expressed their ardent expectations to get off work on time and return to their respective lives through hard-core lines one after another. Recently, Jiang Shengnan, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said that the supervision and management of the "8-hour work system" should be strengthened. She mentioned: "The 8-hour work system is the daily working hours stipulated by national law. However, in recent years, some industries and enterprises have violated the 8-hour work system. The hourly work system has even become the norm in some companies, and the rights and interests of the majority of workers have not been fully protected. "Many employees have to work more than 12 hours a day, or even more than 16 hours," she believes. , unpaid overtime, "996" and other issues have had a great impact on the physical health and family life of workers, and seriously violate the provisions of labor regulations. In this regard, she suggested that the eight-hour work system be fully implemented and workers' rights to rest and health be protected. Strengthen labor laws to protect workers’ right to rest, and strengthen supervision and management of the implementation of the eight-hour work system in enterprises and institutions.