It all starts with high-intensity overtime work. Recently, the leader of the Wuhan AI audit team at Station B was required to work overtime during the Chinese New Year. Under the intense work from 9 pm to 9 am, he unfortunately suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. After being sent to the hospital, he still could not be rescued, and then died suddenly.
In the face of this situation, Station B issued an announcement saying: After internal assessment and verification, employees’ working hours are from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm, and they go to and from get off work normally. During the week before the incident, There is no overtime work etc. The announcement at station b also reminded employees to pay attention to their health. However, Station B’s response did not win recognition from the deceased’s family and the public.
Doubts continue to ferment in the public opinion field, and the family members of the suspected deceased continue to speak out and post their WeChat Moments. The corporate WeChat summary of 2021 shows that the employee had 320 The last day I used Enterprise WeChat late at night was 4:42 a.m. on November 12th. Many netizens even said that they get off work at 6:30. Do you believe in Station B? They also issued a recruitment notice for the review specialist at station b, which clearly stated that they would work twelve hours a day with one day off. The precise cause of the sudden death of an employee requires final determination by an authoritative agency.
In the field of public opinion, misfortune in capital letters has already explained a lot of problems. The first is the response from station b, which lacks convincing evidence. In the face of doubts and pictures from family members and netizens, Bilibili’s statement that I can do what I need after get off work normally seems pale and empty. Today, when employees frequently need to clock in, it shouldn’t be difficult to clearly post the clock-in records of the deceased. While cooperating with the police and family members in the aftermath, Station B can only soothe the pain of the family members of the deceased and calm the doubts in the public opinion field by connecting the truth with facts.
To put it further, the misfortune in the public opinion arena is due to the long-standing culture of hard work and overtime among migrant workers. For a long time, Internet companies have a deep-rooted tradition of working overtime. Various systems and strategies to extend working hours, such as voluntary overtime work on 996 and 007, are emerging one after another. There has even been an argument that 996 is a blessing.
In the field of public opinion, the strong reaction to the sudden death of an employee at Station B while working overtime is enough to illustrate the public’s resistance and disgust towards excessive broadening. Whether it is Station B or other employers, only by truly respecting employees and ensuring that employees' right to rest is implemented can we alleviate the public's concerns about excessive overtime threatening employees' health and safety, and truly win the recognition and recognition of employees. Respect and achieve long-term development.
In short, whether there is really long-term overwork behind the sudden death of employees needs to be avoided and more real details and stronger evidence can be produced to appropriately banish it to the social level. The misfortune in the public opinion arena requires all employers to reflect on their work systems and not always sacrifice the health of their employees for the development of the company. How to allow employees to achieve a balance between work and life and avoid excessive overtime should be deeply rooted in the consciousness of every manager.