On January 4th, that is, yesterday, Pinduoduo’s answer under the question about employees’ sudden s caused an uproar on the Internet.
Although Pinduoduo subsequently responded that the screenshots on the Internet were P-picture rumors, the next Zhihu butler personally slapped the face and undoubtedly put Pinduoduo on the wax completely.
Pinduoduo's response after being beaten is even more amusing
Typical self-healing PR
"Whether you believe it or not, let me believe it first"
But it's a pity--
The collapse of credit
Can only give one chance
The above is the beginning and end of this Pinduoduo incident. At the close of trading yesterday, Pinduoduo's share price plunged 6.13%, and it has fallen to 166.78 US dollars.
This unfortunate incident has caused people to re-examine the fierce competition among Internet companies behind the grocery shopping business.
Duoduo's grocery shopping business is an emerging business incubated internally by Pinduoduo. After more than 2 months of internal testing on the WeChat applet, Pinduoduo launched the grocery shopping business "Duodumai" in the App in August 2020. Unlike other platforms, Duoduomai focuses on "Next Day Delivery" delivery. Covering multiple second- and third-tier cities such as Wuhan and Nanchang.
In terms of business model, Pinduoduo has adopted its consistent approach-subsidies, which is to first attract user traffic with low-price sales, and then control costs by removing intermediate wholesale links.
"In the past few months, you may have felt some adjustments in the company’s organizational structure. We are particularly happy to see that among our thousands of people, there are many more friends who are willing to fight and can At the fifth anniversary celebration of Pinduoduo in October 2020, Chairman Huang Zheng delivered an internal speech stating that all Pinduoduo employees must “open the hard-core struggle mode”.
Against the background of peak online traffic, community group buying is regarded as the last blue ocean in the consumer Internet era, and has become the focus of competition among Internet giants.
As a channel to connect consumers, group leader is the key to the operation of community group buying. According to the research report of China Merchants Securities, Meituan Optimal mainly uses local push, street sweeping, and visits to obtain group leaders, while Pinduoduo uses telephone calls; Meituandi will reward 160 yuan for each expansion of group leader, and Didi "Orange Heart Optimal" and Pinduoduo's "Duo Duo Mai Cai" are 130 yuan. A Beijing user told a reporter from China Business News that recently he repeatedly encountered Meituan’s local promoters near the community. The local promoters said that there are 10 new pull tasks (registration plus order) every day, and only users place The single is considered successful.
Up to now, Meituan and Pinduoduo have the largest siege areas, with more than 200 cities each.
However, behind the frantic expansion and burning of money, employees are working overtime, and "health" has become an unavoidable topic.
The reporter learned that Pinduoduo implements a strict system of clocking in and out of get off work. It starts at 11 in the morning and generally leaves at 11 in the evening, and works overtime every Sunday. Due to long hours of overtime work, even some employees in non-core departments are not in a good state of mind when reporters are in contact with Pinduoduo employees.
In fact, overtime work is very common in Internet companies, and the "996 work system" has been formed, that is, work at 9 am, leave work at 9 pm, and work 6 days a week. In recent years, it has been discussed and questioned many times. Behind this are multiple factors such as fluctuations in the market value of listed companies, fierce competition from cutting-edge technology startups, and employees' increasing emphasis on personal life and freedom.
The Southern Metropolis Poll Center released the "Workplace Stress and Overtime Survey Report" in December 2020, showing that more than 70% of the respondents clearly stated that they need to work overtime at their current jobs, accounting for approximately 72.58%. 48.41% of the respondents who need to work overtime stated that the weekly overtime hours can be controlled within 10 hours, 8.02% of the respondents stated that the weekly overtime hours are 20-25 hours, and 3.48% of the respondents who work overtime hours are within 25-30 hours. Hours, 2.72% of respondents even stated that they work overtime more than 30 hours a week.
May there be no 007 in heaven, and Internet culture should not be a culture of oppression
People ushered in 2021 with mixed feelings. There was news that an employee of an e-commerce company was suddenly on the way from get off work at 1:30 in the morning. At the age of 23, the happy years have just begun, but they will always be fixed in the New Year when boundless expectations are placed.
Sudden s is common in exercise spurs. It includes two situations, one is that exercise induces latent cardiogenic diseases to cause sudden s, the other is that excessive exercise causes internal organs to overload and cause sudden s. The former situation is not available or difficult to detect, while the latter situation is relatively controllable by the individual.
In 490 BC, the Greek army defeated Persia in the Marathon Plain. The young fighter Phidipides was ordered to run more than 40 kilometers in a row, reporting to the people of Athens, "We have won," and then fell to the ground and died. This is the source of human marathon long-distance running and the earliest case of sports sudden s.
The non-exercise suddenness of employees of Internet companies has also been reported occasionally in recent years. It cannot be ruled out that long-term high-intensity work may also induce latent cardiac diseases and cause sudden s. However, what is sad and angry is that the continuous high-intensity work of young employees has caused the internal organs to be overloaded, commonly known as overwork.
We say that excessive exercise is relatively controllable by the individual, and the tragedy of overwork and overwork can be avoided. But unfortunately, the prevailing Internet culture has become a factor that induces or even encourages employees to overwork.
Since 2004, China's Internet economy, represented by e-commerce, has achieved remarkable results in providing more efficient and convenient services. Among them, the dedication of the grassroots employees is indispensable.
We often say that the Chinese nation is the most industrious nation, and this is also reflected in the hard work of Internet enterprise employees. The fact that China's Internet economy can lead the world today is precisely the result of these generations of Internet practitioners who have courageously strived to be the first. For example, early Chinese Internet companies generally worked 6 days a week.
What needs to be pointed out is that the 40-hour work week five days a week (from May 1, 1995) has been implemented in my country for 25 years. There are still a few Internet companies or technology companies that work six days a week as the norm; For Internet companies that barely implement a five-day work system, employees work overtime until 9 or 11 in the evening, which is another normal state.
The Internet industry is a fully market-oriented field with fierce competition. Therefore, most companies have been pursuing innovation, continuously launching new products, and intervening in new business formats in order to maintain or gain more market share. For example, for the young employees mentioned at the beginning of the Internet transmission, their company has concentrated resources and firepower after entering the community group buying field . It may become the norm for employees in this group to leave work at 11 o'clock in the evening or even one or two in the morning.
Many Internet companies pride themselves on being advanced technology companies, but their work environment is not flattering. It is not surprising to queue up to go to the toilet during working hours. What is even more surprising is the installation of timekeeping equipment in the toilet. On the surface, it optimizes the time for employees to go to the toilet. In fact, it even squeezes the time for employees to go to the toilet.
It reflects that the office space of these Internet companies is too dense. The toilets in the office buildings are designed according to the standard number of office workers. The long-term crowded use of the toilets reflects the densely populated office space, which is seriously uncomfortable and even depressing.
There is nothing wrong with it. When I was young, I should endure more hardship, work hard, pursue continuous progress in my career, and live a better life for my family. This kind of spirit should be upheld. This includes actively sacrificing a certain amount of personal rest, entertainment and vacation time, and working overtime to complete a certain phased task of the company.
However, taking the initiative to work overtime cannot be equated with the normalization of overtime, nor can it be a reason for forced overtime or implicitly forced overtime. Some companies will argue that all overtime work will have corresponding subsidies, which fully meets the legal requirements; there has never been any company rule that requires employees to work overtime. The scary thing is here. Because this is a long-established Internet culture.
Under the immersion of this culture, even after finishing all the work of the day, I dare not leave work at 6 pm; if one month is counted, your total overtime hours are the bottom of the company, you will feel ashamed, let alone rest. This kind of non-discriminatory annual leave. 996 is the hidden forced overtime of young people such as the welfare of young people, which is a true portrayal of this Internet culture.
The Internet is a young industry as well as an industry for young people. It is said that many companies also have selective discrimination against their employees’ working age. After you reach the age of 35, you will always worry about being “resigned”. The underlying reason may be that the younger you are, the more you can withstand high-intensity labor such as overtime. Affordable overdraft. This is also one of the chronic diseases of Internet culture.
A healthy Internet culture is a culture of hard work and continuous innovation, but it should not be a culture of squeeze and oppression. Squeeze is to put on the cloak of legality, pretend to be predatory, it is to maximize the value of KPI, which is the exquisite copper plate on the road of zb attack.
Internet employees are not robots sitting in rows, and young people are not juicers that never dry up. The Internet culture in the new era should be a culture of warmth and human care. zb can and should strike a balance between profit maximization and personalization. Hardworking people have the right to pursue a better life, and Internet professionals have the right not to be kidnapped by 996.