Why is the company's team building criticized?

As one of the management methods of a company, team building has always existed in the form of "welfare". Many employees have both love and hate for it. Some companies have positive team building activities, and everyone from management to employees has given it a thumbs up. Some companies have complained about team building activities, and management feels that they have not achieved the desired effect, while employees feel that they are unnecessary. Why is this the case? In this article, the author tries to analyze this issue for us.

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When it comes to bad luck in the workplace, low salary, many problems, long distance from home, and bad bosses have been talked about a lot. I think team building must not be left behind.

Every young person who has been beaten by society has been beaten by the company, and every young person who has been beaten by the company has been beaten by team building.

The workplace is already hypocritical enough, but we even have to organize team-building and do some pretentious things with those idiots. Is this going to kill us?

This is a very explosive existence in the alphabet circle.

The general process of team building is as follows: On Monday, HR will send a notice early, asking all of you to prepare for team building on Saturday and Sunday. At the end of the notice there will usually be a few words marked separately - "No leave allowed."
Wow, he's so gentle.

Although it is forced.

And said please.

On Friday, you finished a week's work, but your luck was not good. HR sent you a notice, forcing you and a few colleagues to prepare team-building supplies. You ran to several supermarkets in the city to buy various barbecued meats, disposable tableware and paper cups, mineral water and drinks, and carbon block alcohol.

The next day, I had to get up earlier than on weekdays and run back to the company to gather. If I unfortunately had a car, I had to drive there myself.

Under the scorching sun, sweating profusely, I ran to the suburbs, the beach, and the farm house.

Let me explain here. The meaning of Nongjiale is that the farmers are happy to see you, the unfortunate office workers.

So the question is, why do they see you so happy? Because you are a group of people lined up in several teams, and under the arrangement of the team-building coaches hired by several outsourcing companies, a group of colleagues who were originally unfamiliar with each other were forced to split into several groups, and they played various company-related names, such as tug-of-war and three-legged race, which are stupid games that even high school students find embarrassing.

Then, in a sweaty state, they eat food that is either not cooked through or already burnt by the campfire or barbecue grill.

Oh no, carcinogens.

Or a jet engine.

While eating barbecue, you can chat with your boss whom you cannot afford to offend and colleagues whose names you cannot even remember. When you finally finish your day, your boss turns around and says, why don’t you go have a drink/play some cards/play some mahjong.

You want to refuse, but you are afraid of being labeled as a loner.

After finally ending it all, I returned to the hotel where there was water everywhere except in the toilet.

You want to sleep, you are very tired, but when you think about climbing the mountain tomorrow.

You don't know whether you are asleep or fainted.

If you are a boy and share a room with other male colleagues, you don’t even know whether your fainting is normal, or whether the pain in your butt the next day is related to the team building on the first day.

The next day, you climbed up the mountain again under the scorching sun and covered in sweat. At the top of the mountain, a group of people like you unfurled a banner, gathered together, surrounded the leader, and took a group photo.

In the evening, you take your colleague's car back to the city, get off the car, and then take the subway home alone.

When you get home, you open your Moments and see a message from your boss:

"XXX company's first quarter team building!"

"XXX family!"

“A rare moment of relaxation!”

"Together forever!"

Below are the hypocritical likes and boasts from colleagues.

You want to curse and make sarcastic remarks, but the bad thing is that you think too much.

You also liked it.

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Obviously, team building is the eighteenth level of hell for most people, and weekend team building is like digging a septic tank under the eighteenth level. But if you open any recruitment website, nine out of ten companies will list team building as a benefit and write it in the salary column.

I thought about it for a long time, maybe it means this is a humiliating play benefit?

Yeah oh no that's horrible.

Many companies hope to use these seemingly trendy concepts to create a high-end image for the company and to deceive some freshly graduated college students. For the company, they spend money and time to let you not work and go traveling. There is probably no better benefit than this.

As long as there are some standard benefits, it can be called a big company.

But what is strange is that team building always becomes the second wave of resignations after the year-end bonus is distributed. Many companies always have people resigning after the team building is completed, and many employees even criticize the team building activity.

Oh, no, this may be the first wave of resignations because year-end bonuses are no longer being paid.

The employees feel wronged, and so does the boss. The boss feels that he has spent money, time, and put down his pride to hang out with you ordinary employees, but you are planning to quit and change jobs, and you are talking bad about the company. You are typical traitors, so he also starts to criticize the employees.

It was clearly an effort to bring people closer together, but in the end it caused everyone to fall apart.

The last project that was so awesome was called AirCoin.

To understand why team building has become so ridiculous, we need to understand the essence of team building. What is the essence of team building?

From the perspective of management, team building refers to a series of team optimization behaviors such as structural design and personnel motivation in order to maximize team performance and output.

Enhance the team's positive energy, cohesion and more optimized cooperation model.

Simply put, it is to make employees feel that they are one with the company, and that colleagues around them are not enemies but comrades-in-arms, so that everyone can work better for the company.

Of course it would be better if it was cheaper.

Team building stems from the company's desire to maximize profits. No company thinks that the team is united enough, no boss thinks that the employees are working hard enough, and no businessman thinks that the profits are enough.

Since employees are not working hard, how can we make them work harder?

You can't add money.

Thus, team building, the greatest invention in the history of the workplace, came into being. The cost per person is only a few hundred yuan, it does not take up working time, and allows employees to interact through free games, allowing employees to establish emotional connections with each other and with the company, thereby improving employees' work enthusiasm and loyalty.

Especially when working overtime, instead of considering themselves working overtime, they think they are helping their brothers, thus ignoring the unreasonable working hours and the overtime pay they should receive.

But unfortunately, the abacus was too loud and woke up the employees.

What the boss considers a perfect team building is, in the eyes of the employees, equal to: no reduction in workload, serious occupation of personal time, gaming activities against personal wishes, severe discomfort caused by forced socializing with superiors and colleagues, poor travel and living conditions, and unnecessary physical expenditure.

In essence, it is the company's disrespect for employees' wishes and strong interference in their personal freedom.

It’s okay during normal times, but it’s CNM during rest time.

To be honest, the concept of team building was neutral when it was first created, and it did not have any derogatory meaning. When management experts proposed this concept, their initial purpose was to improve work efficiency by improving the mood of employees and increasing mutual understanding among employees.

But they probably didn't expect that today's bosses would cut costs while increasing revenue.

Creatively proposed methods such as team building during rest time, low-cost team building, and team building in remote mountainous areas, which made people couldn't help but raise their middle fingers to give thumbs up.

What is the essence of this kind of low-cost team building? The essence is that the bosses try to use small amounts of money to pry open the great love in the hearts of employees, and use great love to drive employees to gnaw bones.

That is to say, we generate electricity with love, and of course, we use the love of employees to generate electricity for the company.

Because the company's store uses commercial electricity, it is a little more expensive.

The key to the conflict in team building is that the boss wants to improve the work efficiency of employees by making them happy, but the process is implemented completely in a way that "makes himself happy", which leads to a huge difference in the final result. So, how to improve work efficiency correctly?

The simplest way: give money.

But the problem is that the boss just wants to do other fancy things and refuses to pay.

So everyone was embarrassed.

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It is a bit too much to ask employees to work with passion while the boss also wants to please himself unilaterally.

The key to generating electricity with love is to make employees feel happy subjectively, so that they can overcome objective material dissatisfaction.

To put it bluntly, if you don't want to give me money, then give me something else.

The simplest thing is, why do we need team building on weekends?

Do you think you don’t work overtime enough?

If you want team building, do it on weekdays. Even if it’s not pleasant, at least your employees can take away the garbage when they steal the offerings at your ancestral graves.

Many bosses simply don't understand that formalistic team building is actually like parents forcing their children to get up early during the holidays. It's not for your own good, but to enjoy the psychological pleasure brought by your obedience and compliance with discipline, which is pure self-satisfaction.

But they didn't think that the employees were not stupid either.

Real fools can't survive the beatings from society.

Logically speaking, if an employee is really dissatisfied with the company and the working environment, he does not need to wait until the team building to leave. Being able to join this company means that he has accepted the money and the treatment, and at least he does not feel too uncomfortable.

When this low-cost team building came to him, it actually just enlightened him to one thing:

"I knew you were disgusting, but I didn't know you were so disgusting."

When the bosses see the group photo sent by the administration after the team building, they can think about how many sentences are hidden behind those helpless smiling faces:

"I can't bear it anymore."

If I continue to endure this, I will become a clown. I might as well go back to Gotham.

After saying so much, it can be summed up in four words: respect each other.

It’s okay to make money, the purpose of running a company is to make money.

But please respect the people who make money for you.

It is not a problem to treat employees as tools, but you must know how to respect and maintain the tools.

Those who do farm work know that they need to maintain their farm tools, and craftsmen know that they need to take care of their bread and butter.

Unless what you eat is not rice, but Oli Gei.

Author: Banfo, public account: Xianren Jump