It’s the Weekend! And I am still working.
Despite today is Saturday, I am still doing my job at the
company like a normal weekday. It is one of our company’s labor rules that the
last Saturday of every month is working day. Taking free time, I do some
searches on the Internet and summary the figures and various opinions about working
on the weekend.
Need to take some fresh air over a breath-taking view~
First, I am going to demonstrate some statistics of the estimated
numbers of people have to spend their weekends on businesses. An article on
forbes.com surveyed 1000 Americans and found that approximately 70% worked at
least one weekend a month, with 63% saying that their employers expected them
to put in time on average Saturday and Sunday. What a number. However, it does
not surprise me at all. From my experience, when I was a Samsung engineer, I
myself had to work on two Saturdays a month, same number in Viettel’s offer letter.
Now, LG requires me to be at the company one Saturday a month. Generally, we
are living in the world which working on the weekend is the normal.
“Work isn’t separate from life. It is part of life, and
weekends are part of life too.”
The supportive articles state that working on the weekends
is actually the key to managing work and life together. Many successful people
worked on days starting with “S”. For example, Elon Musk, who is the founder,
CEO of several big companies including Tesla (automotive), SpaceX(aerospace),
and The Boring Company (construction), works 100 hours a week. People who
achieve great success often love what they do for a living. They usually does
not feel like work but lots of fun. Weekends bring a great opportunity to spend
time brainstorming, do creative work, read for work, and come up with new
ideas.
Picking one day instead of both to work, so that there’s at
least one day off. For example, choosing Saturday gives you the time to do
whatever you want to free your Saturday night and Sunday. That specific part of
the weekend will not be wasted in a long morning sleep, and allows you to
finish your works.
On the opposite view, some articles say that everybody’s
working on the weekend is a bad thing. When weekend work gets built into a
culture, it’s generally because of someone isn’t managing workloads properly. A
lot of weekend work is unnecessary. I myself spend most of Saturday morning out
of work to compose this blog topic. On this day, our teams at LG prefer to organize
some sort of knowledge-sharing seminars such as how to learn python, what is
blockchain, or even how to learn English for time-consuming purpose.
Moreover, there is a huge difference between working on the
weekends to achieve your passions and working on the weekends because your boss
expects you in the office on “days-off”. Someone has to go to work with the
second reason never ready to make that a productive day.
From my point of view, I hate spending some time over
weekend on work-related activites. After long weekdays of getting up early,
driving to company during rush hours in traffic jams, working hard and studying
diligently, I definitely need to make time to recharge. Weekends is a good time for hanging out with couple of friends, trying to eat something new, or just sleeping
longer. It also time to prepare for the week ahead and make sure Monday started
well. TGIS J
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