A cross-border person almost died suddenly. Are you still working overtime?

Not long ago, an astonishing thing happened in the cross-border circle : a cross-border e-commerce staff member fell headfirst at the door of the hospital. Fortunately, the place where he fell was very close to the hospital and he was rescued in time by the doctor.

It is understood that this cross-border person is Mr. Wang, who was born in 1991. Like most people in the industry, he gets up at night to check data and often goes to bed at one or two in the morning. He is under great work pressure. But there is one thing that is different from others and makes people excited: after entering this industry, Mr. Wang bought himself two watches , the left watch shows Chinese time and the right watch shows American time.

Staying up late to check data is a daily routine for Mr. Wang. Sometimes, he would go out for supper and beer after finishing work in the early morning. Unfortunately, one day after such "normal operation", he felt sore all over, caught a cold and had a fever. As you can see at the beginning, he suddenly fell to the ground before he even got to the hospital.

It is understood that when the doctor examined him, he had no heartbeat and breathing. After continuous chest compressions and other rescue efforts, he was fortunately rescued! After this incident, perhaps because he valued his life more, Mr. Wang took off the watch on his right hand that showed the US time, leaving only the watch on his left hand.

"Work 996, be in ICU when sick" seems to be true.

Faced with the overtime issue in the cross-border circle, I searched the Internet and found that many sellers had different answers.

One way to say this is:

“Never work overtime, at least until now”

“Not only did they not work overtime, but they also slacked off.”

"Located in Shenzhen, overtime? Not possible."

“Excellent Amazon operations do not require overtime”

Another way to say this is:

"8 am to 8 pm, 12 hours of work per day"

“It is necessary to work overtime until late at night to look at the data”

“I’ve always heard from colleagues that it’s not normal to work at Amazon without overtime.”

"I worked part-time as an operator for a while, working overtime until 10 o'clock every day, but later I decided to focus on my off-site work."

"The earth won't explode. We don't take holidays. We work 24 hours a day! We get off work at 9 o'clock. We go back to work at 9:30!"

In the past one or two years, official media have collectively criticized the overtime culture in companies.

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Shenzhen, a city where cross-border e-commerce is flourishing, has even introduced the country's first regulation to curb the overtime culture, the "Health Regulations of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone" . The regulations will be officially implemented on January 1, 2021, and a mandatory vacation system will be implemented.

In the past, we never opposed overtime work. The main reason was that the productivity efficiency and social and economic development levels were very low at that time.

Now, the reason why we advocate not working overtime is because of the improvement of the country's labor productivity and economic level, the enhancement of international competitiveness, and the need to "alleviate internal circulation . "

From a big picture perspective, we should comply with the need to “alleviate internal competition” . But does it mean that not working overtime is the right thing to do? Not really. Society always needs the efforts of a small number of people.

So how do you determine when you don’t need to work overtime and when you should?

In the current environment, I hope everyone will not think that if they don't work overtime, their future will be insecure . Don't worry about the future, but live in the present. Of course, don't interfere with those who are working overtime. You are happy if you don't work overtime, and others have their own happiness when working overtime.