In recent days, DJI’s mandatory off-duty thing has caused a lot of buzz online.
According to some DJI employees, every day when it is about to reach 9:00 p.m., the supervisors of various departments will go from floor to floor to catch people .
If people don’t leave by 9:00 pm, the supervisor and the HR branch will take three rounds to drive people off work.
Moreover, the supervisors of each department will take the lead to set an example and leave directly with their bags.
If the supervisor left, ordinary employees are still not willing to go, after 9:00 pm, HRBP began to minesweeping to drive people.
And it is said that they are carrying the KPI of having to clear the place.
That is to say, by 9 pm, no matter whether your task is completed or not, do not want to care whether you are willing to leave work or not, you must be forced to leave work.
For this kind of mandatory off-duty , many people will not react for a moment.
After all, for DJI employees, overtime is a common occurrence, and getting off work before 9pm is a luxury.
So much so that when the supervisor rushed off work, many people mistakenly thought that they had an illusion.
Getting off work at 9:00 is too early.
According to the actual situation in the past, the early morning is the peak time for DJI to leave work.
From the information disclosed by many DJI employees, the early morning DJI Sky City is still brightly lit, and the early morning DJI downstairs is the most difficult time of the day to get a taxi.
We have long been accustomed to this early morning off-duty routine.
In addition to DJI, on March 10, every day was exposed to the mandatory 18 20 off-duty news again on the Internet has caused everyone to hot discussion.
According to some netizens, from the beginning of this week, the United States departments are strictly prohibited from working overtime, and since 18 20, employees are not allowed to work overtime in the company.
If employees do not take the initiative to work overtime, HR will go from department to department to urge people to work overtime.
For this news, the United States did not respond positively, but the United States of America’s multiple official microblogging has issued an intriguing dynamic.
For example, the United States Group issued a dynamic So, what are you all doing after work?
Suddenly seeing that these companies do not work overtime, and even forced to go off work, many netizens have expressed their incredulity.
Why do many companies now suddenly ask people to go off work compulsorily?
This may have something to do with several aspects.
First, the initiative to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
One of the most direct reasons why many enterprises force their employees to leave work is to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
In the past few years, cost-cutting and efficiency enhancement has swept through all trades and industries, ranging from government departments to the financial industry to ordinary private enterprises, and all of them have been cutting costs and enhancing efficiency.
The reason behind cost-cutting and efficiency enhancement is the brutal competition in the market.
This competition comes from both domestic and foreign competitors.
Under this environment, many enterprises cannot maintain rapid growth as in previous years.
For example, DJI has suffered unprecedented challenges in individual international markets over the past few years, and was even included in the list of entities at one point.
The emergence of these restrictions will certainly have a certain impact on DJI’s market, coupled with the competition from domestic counterparts, DJI should face no small amount of pressure to grow its performance.
Against this background, DJI is also proactively reducing costs and increasing efficiency.
One of them is cost reduction.
According to some DJI employees, many employee benefits have been significantly compressed since 2025.
For example, hitting January 1, 2025, the elimination of nighttime overtime taxi reimbursement The closure of the gym Swimming pools and badminton halls and other venue services The reduction of the reunion funds and so on.
However, to make up for the impact of these benefit compressions on employees, DJI is giving each employee an additional 500 GT dollars per month as a subsidy.
And this time DJI requires employees to leave work before 9 o’clock, which should also be a measure to reduce costs, so that at least some office costs can be reduced.
The second is to increase efficiency.
DJI requires that employees must leave work before 9:00 pm, but the corresponding tasks have not been adjusted downward.
Efficiency must be increased if you want to fulfill your daily tasks.
According to some employees within DJI, starting in 2025, departments must improve efficiency by more than 20.
According to this, work that took 12 hours to complete must be compressed to less than 9 6 hours.
The purpose of doing so can reduce some ineffective overtime Forms of overtime.
Second, the impact of the European Union Act.
Many netizens have linked the requirement of mandatory off-duty work by domestic enterprises to a European Union decree.
In December 2024, the EU issued an amended directive banning the sale of products using forced labor on the EU market.
It prohibits the sale on the EU market The provision or export of products produced using forced labor covers all industries and all stages of the supply chain.
On December 14, 2027, the Directive will come into force.
It’s still more than two years away, but as Europe and the US are wont to do, they’re going to go back a long way.
In order to cope with the EU’s decree, many companies will have to make adjustments 2 or 3 years in advance in order to comply with their regulations.
After all, there is no clear standard on how to identify forced labor in the EU’s decree.
As of now, it is likely that overtime will be classified as forced labor, and many Chinese companies will be implicated.
Overtime work is very frequent in China, and in everyone’s opinion, it’s a very normal thing.
And many workers are willing to work overtime, and even take the initiative to work overtime, because overtime you can get a higher income, no overtime, just rely on the basic salary can not mix.
However, overtime work, which seems to be normal to everyone, is likely to be included in forced labor by the European Union.
Based on this concern, more and more enterprises in China have started to restrict overtime work.
Some enterprises, including DJI, Haier, Midea, etc., have compressed overtime hours, and some of them don’t even need to work overtime on weekends now.
Why did these enterprises suddenly stop working overtime or reduce overtime after the EU decree came out?
I believe we all know the answer.
After all, for these companies, the proportion of overseas business is relatively large, and if you want to enter their markets, you have to meet their requirements.
Thirdly, there is a rising wave of domestic anti-invasion.
In the overall environment is not very good, in the case of market demand slowdown, the past two years, all walks of life are caught in the price war.
Under the impact of the price war, the profits of enterprises have been continuously compressed, and the profits of many industries are less than 5.
In the face of declining profits, many companies can only through the compression of employee benefits, increase overtime to time for space!
This kind of price involution is a fatal blow to the entire economic ecology, and it is also a practice of hurting the enemy a thousand times and damaging themselves eight hundred times to the enterprises.
This kind of inward spiral is like a kind of cancer that is slowly spreading.
First, the involution takes out the peers.
When the peers go down, the upstream supply chain suffers.
When the upstream supply chain suffers, workers’ wages will fall and they may even lose their jobs.
As a result, the income of the population will fall, which will in turn affect the growth of consumption.
When consumption fails to rise, the supply side will definitely be affected in the end.
The supply side can not sell, and finally continue a new round of involution.
This kind of involution is like a death spiral without end, if we let this kind of involution continue to engage in, the whole economy will face great risks.
Now the country has also realized the harmfulness of this kind of inward spiral.
Since the second half of 2024, several departments of the state have repeatedly emphasized the need to fight against involution.
In the government report held a few days ago, it was once again made clear that the comprehensive regulation of inward competition.
It is foreseeable that a lot of unorganized competition will become the target of rectification in the future.
Including price wars, defamation of rivals, delinquent suppliers will become the focus of the rectification of the chaos.
Of course, in addition to the national level of anti-involvement, I believe that the major enterprises will also follow the pace of the state, to reduce some of the enterprise internal conflict and involution.
In this context, the enterprise overtime may be significantly reduced.
If overtime is reduced, it will be a win-win situation for both enterprises and employees.
Nowadays, many enterprises are actually caught in the overtime trap.
Many leaders always think that only overtime, only volume can improve capacity and efficiency, but the fact is often the opposite.
From a practical point of view, many enterprises are inefficient overtime, and even the existence of serious formalism, performance overtime completely for the sake of overtime and overtime.
For example, some of the project team’s tasks can obviously be completed within eight hours of normal work, but the supervisor requires everyone to work overtime, and is not allowed to leave work until the end of the day.
In this regard, many employees in the normal working hours are touching the fish, not at all attentive to the work, but slowly dragged to overtime.
This is a very typical formality, completely for the sake of overtime.
This kind of inefficient or even ineffective overtime not only overdraws the staff’s body and energy, but also increases the enterprise’s office costs, which is a completely lose-lose situation.
This is a very typical process-oriented.
Under this kind of orientation, some business leaders are not looking at what you can come up with results, but to see how much effort you have put in.
In the view of many leaders, the more you work overtime, the more you work hard, the more you contribute, the higher the bonus.
But the truth may be just the opposite.
For an organization, the result is always more important than the process.
If the employee is able to give adequate and beautiful results, it doesn’t matter if she did it in two hours or in 12 hours it’s actually the same.
Existing more and more enterprises have begun to realize this problem, so began to shift from process-oriented to results-oriented, and take the initiative to anti-involvement.
Regardless of whether this anti-involvement is due to external pressure, or the enterprise initiative, in any case, this is a good thing.
After all, people are not robots.
People are people because people have lives.
People can’t be slaves to their work, which is in the service of their lives, and if you get the two backwards, it’s a complete mess.
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