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The Paper's special commentator Zhu Changjun

When it comes to "touching the fish" at work, many people may think that Liu Cixin once worked at the power plant to "touch the fish" and write the story of "Three-Body Problem".

However, the reality that the vast majority of people face is that "touching the fish" is risky, and please be cautious in operation. Recently, a screenshot of an internal document from Gome Holding Group was circulated on the Internet showing that some Gome employees were forbidden to engage in unrelated things in the office area, such as playing computer games, chatting online, and listening to music. The document said that for 10 of the non-outsourcing employees, the company was given a warning and administrative penalty of 2 points; for the outsourced personnel, the clearance process was done, and it was not allowed to outsource the site twice.

After this internal circular was exposed, public opinion controversy was not small. Quite a few netizens think that the pattern of enterprises is not a little smaller? Playing with your phone at work and swiping off videos seems normal today. In addition, occasionally "flying" is not a necessary adjustment, but may stimulate enthusiasm for work. In addition, the background monitoring of employees' Online behavior is not an invasion of employee privacy, which also causes some netizens to worry.

The above reaction of netizens is really a common sentiment of people. Today, it may not be possible for anyone to not "touch the fish" at work hours. After all, people are not machines, and it is difficult to avoid occasionally "distracted" when working.

The point is, how exactly is "touching the fish"? As the notice shows, the traffic used by an employee on a music software is as high as 22.5G, which from the perspective of common sense, it is possible to just listen to music while working. If this is the case, is it really considered "touching the fish"?

Of course, from more details and responses, Gome's treatment of "touching the fish" employees this time seems to be different from the previously exposed practice of some companies that even limit the number and time of employees going to the toilet.

For example, the published employee Internet data shows that the traffic usage of most people is indeed not explained by occasionally brushing a few minutes of video during work hours. Gome pointed out that the company's lunch break time is only 1 hour, while some employees use more than 20G to watch videos, and the actual calculation may have accumulated up to ten hours. Such a phenomenon, I am afraid, is difficult to accept in any company.

In addition, the relevant person in charge also said that if there are employees who can give reasonable explanations, such as forgetting to turn off the background after watching the video during the lunch break, this situation can be understood by each other. And stressed, "There are some employees whose situation is reasonable and reasonable, and HR will make a correct judgment." Moreover, like the video department to open the vibrato time must be very long, this kind of we can not do the notification. ”

It can be seen that Gome's notification and criticism of the "fish touching" employees does not seem to be completely equivalent to the "harshness" and "inhumanity" of our imaginary management.

However, the management of employees in an enterprise needs to be "refined" to the point of monitoring the Internet traffic of employees, which reflects the problems in the working atmosphere and management mechanism of the enterprise, and it is indeed worth pondering.

For example, if the phenomenon of "touching fish" in the work of employees of a company is more prominent, is it related to the setting of posts and the allocation of personnel, as well as the improper incentive mechanism? And some enterprises have also popular "fish-touching overtime", that is, after work, leaders do not go themselves or go, brush the sense of existence by touching the fish, this deformed enterprise overtime culture, is it also existing at the same time? In addition, as netizens said, if it is strictly forbidden for employees to "touch the fish" during working hours, should the company's "interference" with employees after work be completely eliminated?

The above questions actually show that the "fishing" of enterprise employees is far from being related to the personal quality of employees and whether the enterprise has strict monitoring, but in the final analysis, it reflects the overall management level of the enterprise. Perhaps, through close monitoring, it is possible to reduce the "fishing" of employees and even improve the operational efficiency of enterprises, but such a simple and blunt approach may always be difficult to win the hearts of the people, which is not conducive to the formation of a really strong corporate cohesion.

Of course, while calling on enterprises to manage flexibly and reasonably look at the normal "desertion" behavior of employees, every office worker must also understand that they should do work during working hours, and do not say "touching fish" to be reasonable, which is also the basic workplace principle, and everyone should have a number.

The company pursues strict management of employees, and employees hope to have a certain humanized space, which may be a pair of eternal contradictions between all enterprises and employees. In the end, how to balance, there is no such clear boundary, different industries, different enterprises, requirements, practices may be different.

In the final analysis, between rules and human nature, enterprises and employees need to work together to find a standard and balance that can be accepted by both parties. Achieving this can be a win-win situation for employees and enterprises.

Editor-in-Charge: Li Qinyu

Proofreader: Ding Xiao