When the centrifugal force between employers and employees in the modern urban workplace is strong enough, some people have the idea of working from home. This is just a negative response.
The popularity of SOHO reflects people's mentality. They hope to get rid of the shackles of attendance, meetings and even personnel management, and regard work as an extension of their personality preferences, thus bringing them a fashionable life and a lot of income. But this ideal may be "painting cakes to satisfy hunger" or a rice bowl. No matter whether it is an iron rice bowl or a mud rice bowl, there must always be one who can eat enough. When parents retire, SOHO children can't understand the lost mentality. Why do they stick to this position? Why don't they go home as soon as they retire? The reason for this suspicion is very good. In the increasingly market-oriented workplace, the employment system has become the mainstream. On the one hand, welfare benefits are socialized, employers are graded according to wages, and employees' housing or medical care for the elderly are increasingly ignored; On the other hand, employees also know that they are making money every day, and their work is only a part-time job, not a home. The centrifugal force between labor and capital is getting stronger and stronger, and the result is the popularity of SOHO.
Not long ago, a girlfriend who worked in a magazine resigned and went home, and then joined a wholly-owned website. Except for two regular meetings a month, there is basically no need to go to work, and the work is five days of annual leave and sick leave. According to her, there is no need to get up early in the morning to squeeze the bus to work, which saves time and travel expenses and increases intangible benefits. According to her, she can also take time out of work, send her children to school and do some personal things. It can be said that it takes care of family and career. On the other hand, the company where my friend works also saves office space, computers, tables and chairs. So the company is also willing to pay a higher bonus as a reward.
Internet is the foundation of SOHO. Some excellent web design SOHO families almost all have their own personal websites; Updating web pages at home every day is the main job of this kind of SOHO family. These excellent personal websites have gradually attracted the attention of IT companies. As a result, the news that personal websites cooperate with big network companies or are acquired by big network companies is endless in the IT field, and these SOHO people have started new businesses. There are also many people who use their own skills to start online information consulting services and become SOHO people in the information service industry. The most common SOHO occupations are music creation, product salesman, graphic design, advertising production, fashion design, business agency, futures trading, stock speculation and so on. The free and romantic working style of SOHO people attracts more and more young people to join the ranks, and their talents are fully displayed in this sky.
On the other hand, under the strong centrifugal force in the workplace, SOHO is not a good coping strategy. When it comes to going to work, we have to face many problems such as working years, retirement, medical benefits and so on. SOHO is not a lofty group, but they are relatively more individual and have expertise in a certain aspect, so they chose a more casual and free working style for a while, but they finally had to return to the world from heaven. At that time, I might have nothing and I was helpless at the same time. Just like many adult schools that may go to study without exams now, the entrance is very comfortable, but the graduation degree is not recognized and it is not allowed to study at other ages. The embarrassing situation can be imagined. Most SOHO people have no fixed social security and no social insurance enjoyed by employees. Some bought commercial insurance according to their own strength to correct the insecurity caused by their uncertain existence. At the same time, society also lacks corresponding protection and restraint for this ethnic group.
The freedom of time is bought at the cost of communication. Under the pressure of today's society, everyone is inevitably autistic. The biggest danger of SOHO is to take this mentality to the extreme, which may eventually become morbid. The separated working and living space alienated the social psychological support system (such as relatives, friends, colleagues, etc.). Life without friends and relatives will make people feel lonely and helpless. The lack of this social psychological support system will be very unfavorable to the improvement of personal bad emotions and psychological crisis intervention. Some people have concluded that SOHO people are characterized by unstable income and obvious personality characteristics, generally people who are not easy to cooperate with others in enterprises, have no sense of teamwork, have a strong sense of loneliness, are psychologically claustrophobic, have an irregular life, have strong elasticity of consumer demand, are utilitarian and have a poor sense of social responsibility.
Some insiders lament that although the work is very busy, it often belongs to personal time and personal space after work. But now that the working space and private space are combined into one, it is difficult to distinguish between working time and private time. In order to get higher pay, they often work overtime. I hoped to be free, but I didn't expect to work for others for free, and my sense of responsibility is relatively low.
Can SOHO people who flaunt fashion cope with these problems? If you can't, cheer up and squeeze into the car to go to work.
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SOHO is a form of work that arose in America about ten years ago. Due to the fierce business competition, the employer, on the one hand, considers the huge office rent problem, on the other hand, in order to improve the productivity and work mood of employees, so this scheme is satisfactory to both employers and employees. This is a kind of liberation for employees, because they don't have to be limited to fixed working hours in the future, as long as they can complete the delivered work.
Robina from Westchester, new york, has been asked by her boss to work at home since her daughter was born. As a result, her work efficiency increased by 67%. Robina, a person who works from home, has accounted for 40% of the employed population in the United States. At&T has 36,000 employees who work from home, followed by companies such as IBM and Motorola. The federal government of the United States plans to increase the number of civil servants working from home to 60 thousand by the end of this year. According to a survey conducted by a research institute in new york, there are 52 million SOHO people in the United States, accounting for about 40% of the national labor force. It is predicted that by the end of this century, one in every two Americans will become a "SOHO" family.
Being a SOHO family is happy and comfortable.
Those who start their own companies are most likely to become members of the SOHO family. Start your own company and be your own boss. Without the "mother-in-law" in management, you have more time to control yourself and you can take things home to finish. Mr. Yang started his own company and is a typical SOHO family. He calls himself an investment machine. He can stay at home for half a month, but he can still get things done in the company. Every morning when he wakes up, he turns on the network computer, watches the stock market, and then places an order through another phone at home. Open another window on the computer between watching the disk, browse the latest business and investment information online, and download it when you see something useful. Indeed, for people like Mr. Yang, the real meaning of "SOHO" is that this way of working completely breaks the original concept and time limit of commuting, and also breaks the original commuting hours. During the Spring Festival, others are playing around, but when the stock market is closed during the Spring Festival, Mr. Yang keeps going to Hong Kong to contact new investment projects. He can burn the midnight oil to write a report, and then rest at home for a few days to relax his nervous nerves. So, Mr. Yang proudly said, "I can work at night, drink tea in the bookstore during the day and go bowling on an outing." If you want to get together, just call or send an email, and a large group of friends will go home soon. Everyone will cook and chat together, very happy. "
"Freelance writers" are also the most among the "SOHO" families. Mr. Zhao Xia's name can often be seen in some newspapers and magazines, but he has no formal occupation and lives entirely by writing. He is a real self-employed. It turns out that he is also a member of the office workers. He majored in Chinese and economics and has a master's degree. After graduation, he went to work in a bank and went to work on time like most people. After working for a period of time, I wrote several good reports and plans on the internal management and business of the bank, hoping to get the attention and adoption of the leaders. However, it has not been appreciated and reused. In a rage, he fired the bank and went back to his old job-climbing the grid and working as a freelance writer. At first, a thousand words were only a few tens of dollars, but when they were written, they became famous, became columnists and special contributors, and their remuneration was also "taking advantage of the trend." Mr. Zhao is free to write. Naturally, he doesn't have to go to work by bike every day like the general public. He just needs to sit in front of a computer connected to the Internet at home. Mr. Zhao admits that he can't leave the computer network at all now. He wrote the manuscript on the computer first, and then sent it directly to the e-mail box of newspapers or magazines, instead of mailing it at the post office as in the past. When I am free, I turn on the computer to browse the Internet, which not only broadens my horizons, but also obtains a lot of useful information from the Internet. One less constraint, one more free creation, and the annual income can reach hundreds of thousands. Mr. Zhao is quite satisfied with the profession of "freelance writer".
Success in SOHO depends on cultivation.
The emergence of "SOHO" clan has a great relationship with the rapid development of modern communication technology. With the popularization of modern office communication tools, such as computers and telephones, some office workers have introduced the work that could only be done in the office to their homes. Naturally, they don't have to dress neatly and rigorously at home. Often when they wake up, these people start a day's work in casual clothes, and they are free and unrestrained. By contrast, when it's time to eat, these people will dress up and then go out to eat. They attach great importance to eating and regard eating as a medium for adults to contact with others and an important means to obtain information. While the vast majority of people still follow the traditional work and lifestyle of "going out to work and eating at home", SOHO people turn this work and lifestyle upside down, that is, "going out to work and eating at home".
Anything that becomes a trend always has its charm. So is SOHO. Needless to say, SOHO has reduced the company's expenses. "Employees work from home to avoid the noise in the office, work in peace of mind in a quiet environment, and put their previous commuting time into work, so that they can better arrange their work and entertainment time. Moreover, working in a familiar environment feels very comfortable and the pressure is much less. " Miss Li, who works in a joint venture, loves freedom and is very happy to be a SOHO family. In addition, for white-collar workers who are already parents, they can also relieve the biggest worry that work and family cannot be balanced.
However, for SOHO people, there is still a hard way to go if they want to pursue their own freedom and romance. In fact, "SOHO clan" is not simple. Some people lingered on this road for a while and returned to the ranks of office workers. "Self-employed" Ding said: "Many of my friends are self-employed and one friend is self-employed. As a result, Jin Yong went back to work after watching it for three months. There is also a girl who is a housewife. As a result, she couldn't help cleaning the house as soon as she was at home. So she cleaned all day and went back to work two months later. " She thinks that to be a SOHO family, you should have self-control in time management first.
There are more and more white-collar workers who are optimistic about SOHO.
Nevertheless, with the rapid popularization of the Internet and the strong economic development in recent years, the number of SOHO families in China is increasing year by year, just like in western developed countries. In Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other big cities, it has become a work fashion! In Guangzhou, in addition to individual SOHO families, high-tech industries are also emerging SOHO companies. While we are still hesitating to abandon the iron rice bowl suspected of "chicken ribs", more and more pioneers have joined the ranks of "SOHO" people around us. In interviews, many young people think that instead of spending half their lives trying to prove their talents in jobs they don't like, they should use their own specialties to unify their interests and work and gradually form a kind of * * * knowledge. Experts and scholars also have the same view. Miss Chen, the head of a human resources consulting company, said: "The boundaries between work and life should be blurred. Our parents' generation had jobs but no life. For our generation, work is work and life is life. I think that in the 2 1 century, work is life, and you are working when you are alive. " Based on this idea, Miss Chen tried to make some of her employees work at home. At present, SOHO employees in the company have reached 50%.
Associate Professor Huo of South China University of Technology also believes that the current wage increase of employees is too large, and enterprises should pay 40% to 60% to pay the expenses of employees. Besides, there is not enough space. The third is that SOHO can not only attract talents near the company. For example, it is impossible for a company in Guangzhou to have people from Beijing to work here at present, but if it is SOHO, a company in Guangzhou, people from Beijing and people from Shanghai can come to work, so that the company can find more and more suitable talents, which is a good friendship for the company. "
It is understood that at present, SOHO, a brand-new way of life and work, has quietly become a trend in Guangzhou's advertising planning, fashion design, legal consultation, online editing and other industries because it has adapted to the rapid development of information exchange. I believe that in the near future, white-collar SOHO people may become a noticeable group in the city.
SOHO is the embodiment that modern people pay more and more attention to the humanization of work. Traditional working conditions and environment have been constantly revised by the pursuit of humanization, and many new systems have emerged, including two days off a week, flexible working hours, maternity leave, mobile office and so on. The "SOHO family" who works at home is the representative-these are the results of responding to the new trend of the information age in 2 1 century, focusing on the creativity of work and production, and emphasizing quality and lightweight. I believe that more and more attempts will sweep the workplace at an incredible speed.