Annual salary of 300,000 white-collar workers claiming to be comparable to Foxconn employees

Foreign capital "professional Services" is referred to super employment 粟粟 "if not the high-rise windows can not open, many people may have jumped down." "This Calvin (alias) is not a" Foxconn "factory front-line staff, but an annual salary of more than 300,000 yuan, working in a foreign management consulting professional services company, a senior white-collar. Calvin told the first financial daily reporter that he often felt so dazed by the window that he was isolated from his life by the towering office buildings and the glass. "Because when the body is tired to a certain extent, the spirit will be completely beyond control, then it is not himself." "White-collar workers like Calvin are a group.　　They are the first-class key university education "", the elite, well-dressed, decent living, access to top office buildings in Shanghai, after graduation in foreign management consulting company's third year of work, the annual salary has reached more than 300,000 yuan. But in Calvin's view, they are essentially about the same as "Foxconn" employees – who can work overtime for months without a weekend, pay benefits are deducted, and almost no personal and family life, and physical and mental health suffers.　　It's just that most of them will opt to resign rather than "jump" in the extreme way. They are even aware that the "professional services" (professional service) is worse than the cheap labour market in manufacturing, and that China's labour market is already beginning to show a "Lewis inflection point"-"shortage of migrant workers", but foreign "professional services"　　The curve in the Chinese market is just beginning. Overtime "spell" and salary "abacus" can you imagine two or three months in a row, including weekends, working to two o'clock in the morning or even later, opening your eyes at 9 o ' clock in the morning and going to the office? "I feel like a robot," said Xiao Lei, who does the audit business at one of the big four accounting firms. She said that since Foxconn's "nine jumps", the company's colleagues have speculated that they are likely to be the next "Foxconn".　　Although with the meaning of ridicule, but she insisted that she did not alarmist.　　Reporter to a number of foreign management consulting companies and accounting firm staff interviewed after the interview learned that the business characteristics of such enterprises are "project system"-the partners bid to get the project, a few thoughtful more than a year, the Enterprise internal construction project team, during the project dedicated to customer service. Under the "Project system", service costs are usually based on project time and number of projects. Partners often play a "price war" when bidding, proving to customers that they can do the project in the most professional way with the fewest people and the shortest time. In order to achieve such a "commitment" to customers, almost all foreign-funded "professional services" companies, overtime has become the employer and employees of the default part of the work.　　What's more, the same staff will be assigned to two different projects at the same time. The reporter learned that management consulting firm and accounting firm in overtime and salaryThe structure of capital is slightly different. Management consulting company's salary is higher, generally the first year of the analyst annual salary in 150,000 ~20 million yuan, the wages of each year (or half year) increase the proportion of higher, and at the end of the year will have different proportions of dividends. But the average overtime is not overtime, only dinner and transportation reimbursement.　　For companies, the "0 cost" of overtime is also a major driver of endless hours of work and double project arrangements. And in the four major accounting firms, starting salary is generally lower, the first year's monthly wages in 5200 yuan to 5500 yuan, the increase of a small year, in 2009 by the "financial crisis" as a basis, the industry mostly only 300 yuan in the monthly wage increase.　　But unlike consulting firms, accounting firms have overtime. The reporter learned that the small bud in the firm, the 2009 overtime pay in accordance with the basic hourly wage system doubled, that is, Monday to Friday overtime hourly wages in accordance with the normal wages of 1.5 times times, the weekend in twice times calculation. But in the end when filling in and applying for overtime, the project manager is still required to approve it.　　Approval depends on the manager's personal opinion and sometimes changes in the number of overtime hours. Since 2010, the company's policies have been based on the "financial crisis" at the expense of employees ' interests, according to Xiao Lei.　　such as the adjustment of overtime system, beginning of this year, the company stipulates that, in addition to individual cases, regardless of the actual overtime hours per week, the maximum can be reported to 20 hours, and 80 hours of overtime each month can only get 36 hours of overtime, the other turn into future leave. Cult, who also works for four major accounting firms, said at the forum, "Foxconn is clearly law-abiding: 1. overtime to pay overtime; 2. The signing of the ' voluntary overtime ' agreement may exceed the statutory 36-hour overtime limit. "Our hourly wage is probably not far from the 9.9 yuan/hour minimum standard in Guangzhou," he said. "This kind of overtime, although in the industry has been" default, but because of the "labor law" cautious, companies never disclose relevant data, no overtime "evidence" also makes this situation continue to spread. On the one hand, when employees fill out a work schedule, some companies require 8 hours to complete, regardless of the actual working hours.　　Others are wary of the actual number of hours the employees fill out, and are not even willing to provide their own historical records. Physical and mental damage "naked speech" a surge in a foreign management consultancy, Lily told reporters that her classmate who worked at another consulting firm had just been diagnosed with cancer. Although this is only an extreme example, "bad health is inevitable," Lily told reporters, "colleagues in the heart problems, lymphatic tumors, kidney disease, and so on." She said that almost all of her friends in the four consulting work have different degrees of cervical spondylosis, stomach, etc., due to long-term lack of sleep and excessive fatigue, foreign "professional services" enterprise employees of the proportion of sub-health than the average white-collar higher than a lot. "Always feel tired, no spirit, headache, every day to drink several cups of coffee." "Lily OneThe face reluctantly said, "especially girls, it is difficult to bear such a work intensity." "Family and psychological problems have also become one of their" symptoms. "There is no time to accompany a girlfriend, even living together parents are rarely seen, work every day to the wee hours of the morning, weekends are not to continue overtime is just want to sleep." Calvin, a home in Shanghai, told reporters, "There is no personal life at all." Very few amusements are often used to vent. He said he was a mild-mannered man who seldom argued with others when he was studying. But now tempers are getting more and more irritable, often without reason. "When you work overtime to two or three o ' clock in the morning, the atmosphere at the office is sometimes scary, because a lot of people are starting to get impatient." "He is also a little excited," the mood is very easy to get out of control, I do not know why this, because in the tired time will feel very manic. "But he thinks this is different from the cheap mechanized labor of Foxconn," We know what to do best, and we want to do it well. But sometimes the head of the project doesn't know how to do the most efficient but wants to get promoted. So he would put something inefficient and even meaningless, forcing us to work late. On the other hand, the company is aware of our sense of competition, the long-term establishment of this performance promotion in accordance with the mechanism of pay. "Young Lei told reporters, because of physical and mental exhaustion, in contrast to pay and unattractive, more and more people began to" naked "-before they find a job to resign. "Before and I had a project group of 10 people, 5 were gone.　　"Xiao Lei herself has just resigned. Calvin said, and a project of his female colleagues suddenly resigned, we have all worked overtime together, complaining, suddenly "naked". "She's only been working a year, but it's probably about the same amount of work as the other types of companies in two or three years."　　When does the "professional services" "Lewis inflection point" come along? More and more "bare words" can only change the fate of the individual, for the enterprise almost no impact. "Because of the high salaries and career paths of other industries, it is attractive to a large number of ' college ' graduates and university students on campus," he said. Everyone wants to take this log bridge. Companies can recruit people with similar qualifications or even better in a very short period of time.　　Calvin told reporters. Now, he analyses, China is already beginning to see a "shortage of migrant workers", a "Lewis inflection point" in the remaining cheap labour market, the turning points in the labour surplus to shortages. He pointed out that the "Lewis inflection point" means that in the process of industrialization, with the gradual transfer of surplus rural labor to non-agricultural industries, rural surplus labor force gradually reduced, and eventually dried up.　　If wages and benefits do not increase, China will continue to appear "migrant workers shortage" phenomenon. But foreign "professional services" companies in China's first-tier cities in the "high-end labor market", "this curve has just begun," Calvin, "Shanghai and Beijing, the same position of analysts or accountants, such as salaries, compared to the European and American markets are cheaperMuch. Compared with other industries, the relative ' high salary ' will make the surplus ' high-end labor ' into the market continuously. "Don't think ' relative ' high pay makes us not comparable to ' Foxconn '. In essence we are worse than them. Calvin to reporters, "the company only recruit the best students of first-class universities, of course, the best students in first-class universities are only want to pay the enterprise." But we have come to realize that as higher education has produced more and more outstanding students, the ' high-end labor ' market is similar to that of migrant workers. Especially for those who have worked three years of experience, there is no bargaining power over pay and benefits at all. "The Foxconn incident has focused social attention on the workers ' welfare and living conditions of the foundry, as well as the ' sweatshops ' that employ low-end labor, but no one has ever looked at us like that." "If Foxconn represents China's weakness in the global industrial chain, foreign capital ' professional services ' companies in China represent the strength of overseas capitals in China," Calvin said reluctantly. ”