Worker farewell 996!These companies started to "do four breaks and three breaks"!

Recently, 70 company employees in the UK began a trial work system one by one: On the premise that the salary is not diminished, employees have changed from 40 hours to 32 hours per week. There are also many voices of the four -day work system in China. In 2018, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences suggested that it will be implemented in 2030.

This incident has attracted the attention of many netizens, and we hope that our country will also start working on a Thursday day and day, especially the workers of the single break and weekly week. They said that due to the lack of rest, the response was slow. It will also be muddy.

Why do some companies ask employees to work for a long time? Why do many foreign companies have begun to "take four breaks and three breaks"? Can long -term work really improve employee performance?

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The impact of long -term work on performance

Many companies hope that employees will invest more time in their work, but there are conclusive evidence that it will not allow employees to work for a long time for the organization for a long time, and employees will be healthier. Employee work efficiency and innovation ability will not be negatively affected. On the contrary, employees' innovation ability may be enhanced.

In fact, we do not need to use for a long time to exchange for better performance. When employees work too much, they will make mistakes. A Uber engineer mentioned a problem in the main database in 2015, causing the entire service system to collapse. "If you wake up at 3 am every day in the past 5 days, if you only sleep for 3 to 4 hours a day, you will make mistakes, then how much do you want you to make?"

Researchers from Economic Organization made a chart for the member states of Economic Organization, showing the working time of each person and the GDP generated by each working hour from 1990 to 2012. The chart "reveals that when employees work longer, work efficiency is higher."

During the First World War, the British Army Fire Production Workers' Health Committee undertook a research task to know how to improve the production efficiency of the arms production. When Stanford University economist John Pencavel analyzed the data, he found that the best working time was 48 hours per week. Below this number, the proportion of output will grow in proportion to the work time. However, "Once the employee work ... more than 48 hours, the output will also start to decline."

In 2012, the International Labor Organization released a report that reviewed many research documents and examined the effects of work time on work efficiency and corporate performance. The report has refined the essence of many studies, indicating that long -term work usually reduces performance, such as:

1. A study using long -tracking data from the 18th century in the 18th century found that in almost all countries surveyed, timeout work reduced the average output of each hour. Extending working time by 10%will cause work efficiency to decrease by 2.4%.

2. One study analyzed the production efficiency of the national level since the 1950s since the 1950s. As a result, the increase in working time was always accompanied by the decline of the output per hour. Once the annual working period exceeds 1925 hours, every 1%extended working time will cause production efficiency to decline by 0.9%.

3. An early report of the International Labor Organization mentioned that reducing work time will improve production efficiency.

4. A study of professionals found that reducing work time will make employees better evaluate their work performance.

5. A study of 6 companies that provides dental care for employees and inspected the effects of work duration. The employees of these enterprises are randomly assigned to one of the 3 experimental groups: the first group of working hours per week is reduced by 2.5 hours, and the fitness time is increased; the second group is reduced by 2.5 hours per week, but no fitness time is increased; No. 1 The three groups are the control group.

The study not only inspected the subject's self -evaluation of production efficiency, but also a objective indicator, namely the number of patients receiving medical examinations. Among the two experimental groups that reduced work duration, patients receiving treatment have decreased, and the group of subjects who increased their fitness time have improved their work efficiency, and the number of illness leaves has also decreased.

Therefore, it is wrong to have a simple concept of simple working hours that will bring more output, because fatigue employees will have more errors. A large number of empirical evidence supports the following views: When the working length exceeds a certain threshold, reducing the working time will improve the health, work efficiency and work performance of employees. In other words, improving the well -being of employees by reducing the working hours of employees will not make enterprises pay economic costs.

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What should a migrant worker do

This is possible to solve the cost of overtime work and work and family conflicts. This is possible. Perhaps companies can take measures to solve these problems by themselves, just like some companies have done four breaks.

In short, employees need to take care of themselves, whether he is a freelancer or an employee. This means that employees should not only fight for economic interests for themselves -this is important, but other interests cannot be ignored. In the studies I made for writing this book, I often hear the following sayings: "I know that unsustainable long -term work and not paying attention to spending time on the family will cause bad consequences, such as physical and mental health problems. But I will continue to do this, because I really have no choice. "Many people will have all kinds of strange and wishful thinking, thinking that they will be able to escape the harmful workplace environment to their health consequences, and they will be miraculously escaped. For example, I am still young, with strong genes. However, unfortunately, although they can rationalize their wishful thinking, it is difficult for the real world to be as their wishes.

The suggestions given in "Far View 2" are: acting, care about your well -being in the workplace. Don't paralyze yourself anymore, think that the bad consequences brought by the bad choice will not happen to yourself; don't make excuses for yourself, think that you can do things in the workplace environment and employee benefits. With sustainability, it is necessary to understand that different people have different energy and tolerance.

The vacation will take a vacation, and spend enough time on family and friends to obtain interpersonal support. Many studies have shown that interpersonal support is essential for a person's well -being. If female employees are not medical needed, they should not only choose a cesarean section for work, but also a major reason for pushing for medical expenses.

The most important thing is that when you think about all kinds of job opportunities, all aspects of enterprises and workplace life, we must realize that your choice and behavior have a great impact on your physical and mental health. In other words, although many people are paying the price for a living and even paying the price of life, you may not have to become one of them.

"Far View 2" is a masterpiece of Stanford University professor and a best -selling book "Power" author Jeffrey Philippine. He has all revealed the truth of the work in the book in all aspects and in -depth in the modern workplace.

The Philippines clearly stated that the environment of our work is as important as the environment in which our lives live. Companies with healthier working environments usually make money and more efficient. More importantly, the two goals of improving employees' health and improving organizational performance are completely compatible. He explored a series of very important topics in the book, including layoffs, medical insurance, work and family conflict, working hours, work autonomy, and why people stay in a harmful environment, thereby revealing the harm of employees' health and influence on impacts. The three factors of enterprise efficiency explain the solutions that make employees healthier and more efficient from 3 aspects.

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