About Internet Overtime

Recently, the Pmtree Group Mail set off a debate over overtime. If you have not worked overtime, then I do not know if you should congratulate you or to mourn for you, at least in the Internet industry, it is impossible. Summarize the discussion in the group mail, analyze and share the views.

Why do you work overtime?

On Weibo, often forwarded on Tencent every night overtime to 11 points of the picture, so many people are saying that the terrible is not the penguin, really scary is, than you lead more than you are more talented team than you work harder. Why do you have to work overtime? What is the purpose of Tencent's team overtime? According to my personal observation, one of the purposes of overtime is to work, close off unfinished tasks, and the other is to learn from yourself, which means that overtime is not just about working, it's about improving your abilities, or spending more time making your own thoughts. I will not discuss the former, in order to work overtime can only say that capacity is not enough, need to work to remedy. But the latter should be the argument of a number of friends who are in favor of overtime. I am one of them, still young, spend more time on the job, regardless of the company, for their own benefit. This is also a reflection of the team culture, if after 6, you find that the office is not many people, then as an HR or management staff should investigate the reasons.

Second, must work overtime?

No one likes working overtime, because we always want to work and life is separate, work is work, life is life, but the reality tells us, if you want to be effective, you have to put work into life, overtime is only a manifestation of this integration. No matter what job you are in, you need to keep your curiosity and work on the new things in the industry and broaden your horizons and insights. This is a kind of intangible self-learning, should be a professional habit, when your vision and broaden your horizons, you will be better qualified for your own work. Return to the original point, must work overtime? Overtime should be a voluntary act, overtime is not equivalent to self-study, but you can improve yourself in the office. As we have found in the university, you can not seriously study in the dormitory, there will always be a variety of interference, but in the study room is able to learn efficiently, because the learning room environment allows you to focus more on investment. If you think you're more focused in the office, you're more likely to be in the company, and if you feel like a relaxing environment, it might be better for you at home.

Third, the things behind overtime

Tencent overtime culture behind a set of things to support, not on the surface of the so-called overtime just. First of all, Tencent's self-learning culture is very strong, is an emphasis on executive power, very important to share knowledge of the team, heard that management has maintained such a style, directly affect all Tencent employees. The second is flexible working time, which means that you work overtime to 11 o ' clock tonight, maybe you can 10 o'clock to the company tomorrow, as long as your work time to reach 8 hours, flexible working time system to provide staff with self-regulation space. I believe we have tried the first day of overtime, the next day early work efficiency is very low situation, and flexible working time to give staff a self-regulating space, so that their rest more fully, naturally will maintain this style. Not enough rest, even the Tencent team can not form this overtime culture, because your body will give a feedback to resist the fatigue of the working state.

There is also a point: those who pay high people working hours are relatively long, but also often overtime. If you don't believe it, you can take a good look at it, and if people who get into a better company are generally more focused on their work, the less time they have to contact you. I personally agree to overtime, but more agree with the self-learning culture behind overtime, but also a team can make excellent products core. In the rest of the time, think of your state, whether you continue to maintain the enthusiasm of the industry, still tireless to learn it? I am one of them, usually continue to learn, contact with different new products. So, see the problem can not only look at the surface, to see the essence of overtime, to imagine the Tencent team as hard as possible, we must do a series of protection, of course, as individuals also need to continue to learn, because success depends on your eight hours of interest and hobbies.

Finally, share a minefield: don't work overtime for overtime, especially the so-called "forced overtime". Only the purpose (work, new products, progress, self-learning, etc.) to work overtime can be achieved.