Why do you work overtime when you have nothing to do?

True enlightenment does not come from an outburst of depression after intense work, but from a sudden moment of leisure. When a project is completed, you re-examine yourself and find that you don’t need to work so hard; when a product is launched, you look back and realize that there are other priorities in life. The author of the following article explains how to truly think. Let’s take a look.

A few days ago, someone sent me a private message saying that he often had to work overtime at work, and it was obviously ineffective overtime. The boss knew that the task had been completed, but still forced everyone not to go home and just kept them around and wouldn't let them leave.

Someone asked me why this boss was so irrational. Was it just to see the bright lights in the company and enjoy the feeling of being in control?

The key is that there is not much output, and it is not cost-effective from the perspective of cost performance.

Don’t you mind wasting time and electricity?

This question is a classic one, and the reason is simple: employees who are capable but whose time is fully occupied are the most useful and stable.

He doesn't need you to produce value there.

What he needs is to occupy your time.

It makes it impossible for you to think and learn.

In exchange for ultimate stability.

We all know that from a purely efficiency perspective, having one person work all the time is problematic.

People need rest, and a person's productivity needs rest to be restored.

But the problem is that many companies have changed their thinking.

In their eyes, due to the increase in job mobility, everyone's production relationship has become a monthly wage system, and they don't know when they started to dislike each other.

At this time, from the company's perspective, it will occupy the workers' time as much as possible.

As long as work takes up most of the employees' time, they will have no time to think about other things, no learning, no new skills. Combined with the specialized division of labor that every company is doing, the employees will be stable.

It is true that other factories offer better conditions, but as long as employees are suppressed and have no way to acquire general skills, what they accumulate are abilities that are only useful in this company. The longer they work there, the more trapped they become.

In the past, some people in society talked about the concept of USB-type talents, but it has not been mentioned in recent years.

It's very simple. Each company customizes its interface, so the system of one company is different from that of other companies. The marketing division of one company is not compatible with that of other companies, which makes the USB interface of workers become weird. How can they be plugged in and out at will?

If you plug it in randomly, it will break.

At this time, from the company's perspective, how can we keep employees in a position?

It must have left him with no energy to improve himself, to plan and think about the future.

What many companies do is to draw a future that seems within reach, and use coercive or soft methods to make employees spend their time outside of the theoretical eight hours of work.

Where the consumption occurs is not the purpose.

The purpose is to consume itself.

It can be time spent on completely unproductive work or time spent commuting to and from work. It doesn’t matter to the company. What’s important is that you have no time to think.

Only in this way can we achieve more extreme stability.

You don't even have time to think, how can you not be stable?

Some people may think that this is a bit counterintuitive. After all, it seems that job-hopping in the Internet industry is still very frequent and has not been suppressed.

This perception actually comes from the fact that there is no way to perform A-B group comparison.

In the Internet industry, which changes so rapidly and where new knowledge and new skills are constantly emerging, if employees are given sufficient time to think, the frequency of job hopping will actually be higher.

As for learning on the job that many companies promote, only a few lucky people in these positions can learn universal skills, while others can only get more and more stuck in their specialized positions in the company.

This is what big companies mean by “sophisticated screws.”

When humans think, the gods laugh;

Only when the workers don't think can the company laugh.

This is why I always tell everyone to be careful about slacking off and not to waste too much time on ineffective work.

You have to think, think, even if it is aimless thinking.

A life filled with work is unable to think.

Many of my friends who work in the workplace did not gain enlightenment after an outburst of depression after high-intensity work, when they just kept their heads down and gritted their teeth to persevere, but after they suddenly had some free time.

After completing a project, I re-examined myself and found that it was not necessary to work so hard;

After a product is launched, I look back and realize that there are other focuses in life.

I have been studying hard for so many years, and suddenly gaining enlightenment are two different things.

One thing was that I broke my shoulder, so I was forced to stop working and stay in the hospital for several months.

One was that my cat died and I was so upset that I couldn't work.

When I really started to have some free time to think, I realized that my work and life were a mess, and that I had been taking advantage of others for free.

So friends, take more time to relax and let yourself think more.

Time belongs to you only when you waste it in your own hands.

Author: Xiaoling Banfo; Source public account: Banfoxianren (ID: banfoSB)

Original link: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/oaqe7nxEyaCgh9Ly0yOlVw