After so many years of working on Knowledge Planet, I have become friends with many golfers, and I receive all kinds of information every day. A golfer from a major manufacturer provided me with their company’s work time and attendance sheet (which cannot be disclosed with a

Knowledge Planet has been in business for so many years, and I have become friends with many golfers, and I receive all kinds of information every day.

A golfer from a major factory provided me with their company’s time and attendance sheet (it cannot be disclosed with a watermark) . To be honest, I was shocked after reading it...

It is not a weekly report, not a daily report, but a daily report. Hourly newspaper! What you do every hour must be written clearly in the attendance sheet.

I finally understood why working at work is called working hard, selling 8 hours of time every day, and then you have to align the granularity.

What’s even more ironic is that the report form can only be filled out in 8 hours, not even one more minute. After all, the company does not have overtime pay, so it cannot leave any clues.

At this point, we can also summarize the common methods used by companies to deal with uncertainty:

One day reduce costs and increase smiles , lay off people, reduce the hard costs of the company, and the bosses and shareholders are happy.

On the second day, reduces costs and increases efficiency . For those who stay, strict attendance checks will be carried out and reporting will be strengthened. There must be no lack of superficial work, and everything must be followed.

From a bull’s eye perspective, the Internet and finance can be said to be one of the few high-paying industries where “equal work is paid differently.” The besieged city is easy to get out of and difficult to enter, but if you stay in the city, you will spend a lot of time either eating shit or carving on shit.

I originally thought that when the market situation was unclear and there was no increase in volume, everyone would naturally learn not to work hard, nor to lie down, but to be patient - adjust expectations, make yourself more comfortable, and get through the suffering stage.

But I thought wrongly. When cannot roll out increments, many companies will do more involution.

This feels like a question writer who clearly has a fever and should rest, but he just got up and did a set of math papers, and then he was moved and said:

Domestic demand cannot be stimulated. Any policy to stimulate consumption can only last for a while. Continued stimulation may even lead to the accumulation of debt.

You might as well think about everyone’s energy when the “consumption upgrade” narrative was popular.

The so-called domestic demand, isn’t it the inner impulse of people to look optimistically at the future, pursue a better life, and look forward to becoming a better version of themselves? The demand for

is always there.

Everyone wants to live in a better and bigger house, they all want to buy a car to expand their living radius, and they all want to eat better and be healthier, but the demand cannot be converted into effective consumption.

As shown in the picture above, since 2015, the weekly working hours have increased by about 3 hours, which is 150 more hours of work per year. Calculated based on 8 hours per day, it is equivalent to 19 more days of work per year, which means 19 days of less rest.

If working harder doesn’t create more income, why not take a break instead?

Rest is not conducive to production, but it is conducive to consumption.

Consumption is a function of income and expectations, as well as leisure time and mood.

I can’t help but ask, is it really good to blindly make yourself work harder?

If you don’t adjust your expectations, wouldn’t it mean that the harder you work, the sadder it becomes?

The ultimate goal and highest ethics of economics are people.

Economic activities are ultimately human activities, and people gradually understand society in the process of activities.

People will not only notice and understand changes in the social economy, but they will also adjust their behaviors and concepts to adapt to economic changes.

And social economy, as an activity composed of people, will further change after being noticed and understood by people.

In this way, the two sides continue to influence and adapt to each other, making the economy move forward in adjustment.

blindly ignore people's feelings, expectations, and happiness. It is not surprising that the effects of many policies are not as good as expected.

is like the fertility issue. In short, if we put it under the grand narrative of economic development, competitiveness, etc., and talk about "human mining", can we not get scolded?

After all, people are not old scalpers who work hard and only increase their production capacity. People should also enjoy life outside of the 8-hour work without guilt and with peace of mind.

Increase the proportion of distribution according to work, increase wage income, increase property income, and implement the long-established working hours and benefits (the most adhered to are precisely foreign-funded companies).

Let the economy return to human standards, and confidence and domestic demand will naturally grow from daily life.