In the face of forced overtime, programmers, what do you do?

Recently, the company began to ask for extended work hours, just to require the atmosphere of overtime in the IT industry is also more and more popular, then have the idea from its essence to talk about their own views.

In "capital", we have already known that capitalists always do their best to extract the surplus value of workers, and the surplus value is mainly composed of two parts, part of the relative surplus value , the other part is the absolute residual value .

The absolute residual value is produced by prolonging the working hours, while the relative surplus value is produced by shortening the necessary labor time. For greedy capitalists, to maximize the surplus value of workers, either by obtaining more absolute residual value, that is, "overtime" to achieve, or by increasing the efficiency of production, that is, shorten the necessary labor time to obtain relative residual value to achieve. Obviously, improving productivity is a complex system engineering, but getting workers to work overtime is a simple, easy-to-take approach.

Therefore, this is the nature of overtime to become a universal phenomenon.

But overtime for the traditional industrial and agricultural effect is obvious, after all, each worker more than one commodity, you can sell more money. However, the effect of increasing the surplus value of workers in the tertiary industry, such as finance and it, which is hard to measure every day, is doubtful .

Because of the immeasurable nature of value creation, workers do not have a daily measurable goal, such as how many items to complete each day, and how much sales to complete each month. That means that the surplus value that workers can squeeze is not necessarily more, and probably less. such as writing procedures more problems than before, to complete the quality of things down, or 8 hours can be completed, in the overtime time, or even overtime work at all. These are the skills of workers in the tertiary industry to cope with overtime, and the practical skills are far more than that. I think we all have a deep understanding of this.

The consequence is that enterprises can not obtain more profits, there may be "overtime is not enough, but also need to extend the illusion of off-hours," while workers believe that enterprises do not consider the interests of employees, but also slack, the quality of work is worse, resulting in a double-lose situation.

From the enterprise point of view, not from the moral aspects, to maximize their profitability is understandable, but if the simple holding of take doctrine thought, trying to rely on the traditional industry way to solve problems, and not according to practice and results, the actual situation, blindly adopted, It is certainly unscientific and may even backfire.

In my opinion, it is more risky to make more profits by prolonging overtime, and it is likely to be a quench thirst approach, albeit simple, in the face of moral and policy risks. But by increasing productivity to earn more surplus value, although it is a long-term complex project, it is a long-term vision, but also for the workers are helpful, is a winning approach.

If you want to improve the working hours of workers, but it is not advisable to take simple and brutal forced off hours.

From the above analysis, we can observe that if we can develop a set of assessment system can be implemented, can observe the approximate value of employees created each day, and then set some 8 hours can not achieve the goal, then the purpose of prolonging the work time is naturally natural, also not easy to incur staff conflict. Therefore, how to explore a set of implementation of the assessment system has become the focus of the enterprise.

From a worker's point of view, to avoid the double loss of overtime, if only to complain and conflict, there is no point. If you are not going to leave, you should look at it from a higher perspective and try to solve the problem.

The reason why companies require overtime is that they want to make more money. How can you make more money? As workers, we have two choices. First, the above-mentioned overtime, but to improve work efficiency. Therefore, if we do not want to work overtime, then we can only improve the efficiency. This method, presumably everyone must understand and know.

Even if we are very efficient, but we also face a problem with the enterprise, we create the value is difficult to measure. As our own, we certainly know that I write the program more robust and more reliable, more natural value, I think things more thoughtful, the probability of the problem is even smaller. However, the enterprise does not know.

So we also have to explore a way to show the value we create in the right way, so that the enterprise can see our value.

As a programmer with lofty ideals, we must not only see the surface of things, but also can not complain about escape, but through the phenomenon to see the essence, from the essence of things, to detect the solution of the problem. Therefore, we do not wait for others to solve the problem, we will take the initiative to solve the problem.

In the face of forced overtime, programmers, what do you do?