Why do you feel that there are more and more managers and fewer front-line workers?

First, the wages of front-line workers are mainly too low, and the income is not proportional to the effort, especially the income of skilled workers is too small. Second, in addition, there are too many laymen in management, pointing fingers and going their own way. The way of reading a cup of tea, a cigarette and a newspaper all day has made front-line workers very disgusted, or they just jumped ship. What's more, in some enterprises, the ratio of managers to managed people reaches 1: 3, which is a terrible ratio. Third, the salary of management is more than 60% higher than that of front-line workers at the same level, or even doubled, especially the year-end bonus. Front-line workers can get 40 thousand amitabha, but management can get at least 65,438+million, and top management can get 500 thousand, 600 thousand or even millions. In the 1990s, when I was working as a technician in the workshop, one day I received a wrong call from a superior leader and asked our finance department to get a factory leader's year-end bonus of 5,000 yuan. At that time, the year-end bonus of our frontline workers was 80 ~ 120 yuan, which was awesome! This is the main reason why there are fewer and fewer front-line workers.

It depends on how you define the word "management" If everyone sitting in an air-conditioned office is regarded as "management", then this statement is true.

In fact, it is not that there are more and more managers, but that more and more people are unwilling to engage in the profession of "workers".

Lack of promotion opportunities

A person's promotion mainly depends on two aspects, one is extraordinary professional skills/management ability, and the other is good upper-level foundation.

As a worker, the route of promotion is doomed to be narrow. Unlike white-collar workers who work in offices, they often "look up and see" with their leaders. If they behave well, the leaders will pay attention to them, and if they are smart and alert, they will soon get promotion opportunities. On the contrary, if you are a worker, who can you show it to? You can only rely on your extraordinary skills in the front line to forcibly improve!

② The working environment is not good.

Most workers are physical contributors, which means that the personal impossibility is poor and the working environment is not good. Doing it for a few years will also damage your health, and talking about your career in the process of foreign exchange is not a very glamorous career, and you may not be discriminated against, but you will not treat others differently.

For example, if a teacher with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan and a worker with a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan go on a blind date, who will the woman favor?

③ There are certain work risks.

Whether you are a chemical factory, a machinery factory or a frontline worker in the field, there is no denying the possibility of work-related injuries. I spent some time in the first line in the early years, and I heard about the accidental death of a senior. Moreover, on 20 12, another student was corroded by chemicals and penetrated into the soles of his feet, and he was hospitalized for half a year.

④ Slow growth.

Whether we admit it or not, front-line workers are engaged in mechanical work most of the time, and it is difficult to get effective exercise in it. In this way, working 1 year is similar to working for 5 years, but the latter is more skilled.

Therefore, a person is often a worker, with a salary of 5000 or more at first; Another person is engaged in other jobs, just starting 3000. But after several years, the wages of workers have not changed much, and the wages of people engaged in other jobs are getting higher and higher.

Summary: At present, domestic workers have poor working environment, many potential safety hazards, high work intensity, small room for promotion, slow growth rate, and the income is not proportional to the effort, which are the reasons for the lack of front-line workers.

The enterprise itself is for production, but in today's society, due to the continuous advancement of modernization, the labor force has been liberated, but as a manager, it has never been eliminated because of labor liberation. All the eliminated workers are grass-roots workers, and the relatively old system also gives leaders too much space. Although the staffing is changing, the nature is difficult to change. As the saying goes, "Why can't workers accommodate me?" This has become a bad habit! Moreover, leaders have a wide network of contacts, and it is difficult for management to have the courage to start unless there is a contradiction with leaders, just like the carrion of the human body! For example, there are too many general leadership positions, many subordinate group companies, many branches of group companies, and too many stations and companies under their jurisdiction. However, there are many workshops under the jurisdiction of stations and workshops, and there are a lot of managers. 1 The team must have at least 1 management personnel, 1 There are more than a dozen people in the workshop, and all departments in the station have them. And this management model has existed for many years, and it is useless for workers to be dissatisfied! Leaders often threaten to "get laid off if you can't do it well!" "You can only bow, otherwise why are you laid off? There is not a ridge on the ground, not an inch in the ground, alas! People with low status talk cheap! I can only secretly swear not to be a fucking worker in my next life. If you want to be a farmer and not be a leader, don't be a worker!

Sometimes it feels right. Under the background of factory automation and artificial intelligence, there are definitely fewer and fewer front-line workers.

Far away, let's just say that my last company, as a large beverage company, had an annual production capacity of 654.38 billion yuan and only a few hundred real front-line workers. Not to mention a behemoth like Foxconn, the number of employees is obviously decreasing compared with previous years.

This situation, on the one hand, benefits from the progress of science and technology, coupled with the industrial policy of Made in China 2025, which promotes the deep integration of industrial automation and industrial Internet, and the dependence on people is getting lower and lower. Many mechanical devices are controlled by computers and do not need manual operation. What is needed is someone with certain knowledge and skills.

On the other hand, the birth rate is declining, there are fewer and fewer young people, the general education level is getting higher and higher, and the base of front-line workers is not as large as before. If the share is diluted, there will be fewer front-line workers in the factory.

To put it simply, we have passed the era of eating demographic dividend and winning by quantity, and replaced it with the era of artificial intelligence.

Such a downward trend in the number of workers will inevitably lead some people to engage in service industry or other jobs. Has the number of managers increased? We need to give a definition. Drucker believes that managers are not necessarily people with teams, but knowledge workers. Knowledge workers are a very broad concept, including technicians and many professionals, such as researchers, engineers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, fitness coaches, beauticians and so on. These can be said to be managers, not to mention functional managers who work in offices.

From this point of view, the number of managers must have increased greatly. Drucker gave a particularly critical definition, that is, to decide whether a person is a manager depends on whether he has a vision and mission. This may seem a bit empty, but it is not empty for a modern knowledge-based society.

In Drucker's eyes, the third stonemason is the real manager, because he has a blueprint and a vision in his heart, which is the essential difference between managers and ordinary people in concept.

So no matter the development trend or from a certain height, this situation is happening. Only by welcoming him and hugging him can we grasp the pulse of the times.

There are more and more managers and fewer front-line employees. There are both subjective and objective reasons for this situation.

As far as career development is concerned, everyone wants to get a higher salary, a higher position and some power when entering the workplace. Everyone tries their best to climb up, so the end result is that more and more people want to climb to the management, and the workers at the bottom eventually leave the factory for various reasons.

Some workers may do a lot of work every day, but earn little. They feel that their efforts are not proportional to their gains, so they want to go out and find other ways out after comprehensive consideration. After working in the factory for a period of time, other workers suddenly saw the essence of factory work. They think that even if they have been working in the factory, no matter how hard and practical the work is, they are only part-time jobs and cannot change the reality that they are grass-roots personnel. As an enterprise manager, although he doesn't do many things every day, his salary is several times that of employees. He only needs to use his computer and brain in the office every day.

Of course, there is another reason. With the progress of society and technology, many employees have begun to wake up slowly. Some employees think that they don't need to waste more time and energy on repetitive work. In the past, in order to survive, they had no choice but to work in a factory, and then work for more than ten hours every day, thinking about how to work overtime every day to earn some money. But now there are more choices. They don't want to do this anymore. They want to change the way they work and live in a different way.

Therefore, we see that many workers will choose to deliver food or run Didi outside after leaving the factory, and some will follow some decoration masters to decorate. After doing this, their time will be more free, and they can also use this time to communicate with others and discover new opportunities.

Of course, in addition to the subjective choice of employees, there are also some external factors or objective reasons that prompted some employees to leave. For example, many factories have introduced robots, and many bosses have calculated an account. The cost of a small robot is three to five thousand yuan, and the cost of a worker is three to five thousand yuan per month. However, workers still have to pay social security and pay various benefits to employees every month. At the same time, workers are difficult to manage, and factories need to recruit managers. So, after all, the factory owner will feel that it is not cost-effective to recruit people. After buying a small machine, they may earn back the cost of the machine within two months. At this time, the factory only needs to recruit some maintenance personnel to repair the machine. The working life of a machine is limited. If you use it for a long time, you can scrap it and buy a new one. Anyway, the cost of the machine has come out.

Of course, young people think differently now than before. Nowadays, young people pursue freedom and get recognition and respect from others. At the same time, young people now have more choices. When there are more and better choices, they will not go to the factory to do those monotonous and boring jobs. Now some workers who stay in the factory to continue working, or some older people, have no better choice but to stay temporarily; Or some people who are used to working in factories for a long time. They are old and don't want to go out, so they want to work in the factory for a few more years, and then they can receive their pensions directly when they retire.

As for some people who have managed to climb to the management level, they naturally don't want to leave this position easily. As long as the company doesn't drive them away or the company doesn't lay off employees, they will have the cheek or stay in the management position of the company in various ways.

Even sometimes, they are willing to manage three or two people by themselves, as long as the company is willing to pay them. As for the management cost, is it high? Whether management is effective or not is a matter for the company, and many managers will not consider these operational matters.

The evolution of human beings is the evolution from physical strength to mental strength. The performance of this evolution is from simply using human physical strength to using natural forces (animals and natural activities) and tools and machines to replace human physical strength.

The evolution of society is the evolution from killing (1) to exploitation (2), cooperation (3) and care (4). In the fourth caring stage, human physical strength is basically replaced by tools and machines.

The existence of enterprise management and front-line workers means that society is in the stage of exploitation and cooperation, which is the characteristic of social evolution in the third and fourth stages. Enterprise management still has the elements of exploiting others' labor, and social production has not completed the replacement of tools and machines, so it is operated by the physical strength of front-line workers.

If there are more and more enterprise management, it means the degradation of social production and social relations, which is contrary to the evolutionary route of people and society and an inevitable manifestation of social degradation.

The wages of front-line workers are too high for the main piece-rate wage types, but not for the hourly wage types. Although the salary of management is not high, it is nine to five and there are holidays.

So timekeepers want to be managers, because they can't do piecework for them. Hourly workers generally do short-term jobs without technical content, so their wages are low. They only hope that being a manager can increase their income, but they are unwilling to do piecework, mainly because newcomers are slow and often make mistakes and rework.

Piece workers are long-term workers with high efficiency and less rework.

Therefore, many people say that layoffs in enterprises are layoffs rather than management. In fact, they are all short-term workers paid by the hour.

If we cut the management of piece-rate wages, yes, you are right. Basically, all management is piece-rate wages. And if the boss cuts off these management, the enterprise will face bankruptcy. However, the piece-rate salary of management is different from that of workers, and it is calculated by an assessment system, such as the progress of production line tasks, sales quota, customer complaint rate and profit.

~ so don't compare workers who are paid by the hour with management who are paid by piece. There is no comparability at all.

I don't think so.

I don't regard technical blue-collar, administrative blue-collar and business blue-collar as grassroots, thinking that they don't work, sit in offices and take advantage.

This idea was not new at all thirty years ago. Now a large number of residues can only show that there is still a long way to go before people can turn from small farmers, small enterprises and small workshops to large-scale industrialization. An idea will affect generations.

Let's get this straight. It's not weird.

This is because of the changes in the environment of the times. The specific views are as follows:

1. There are more and more enterprise managers, which may be that enterprises are becoming more and more bloated.

2. Now is the era of knowledge economy. In some specific industries, there must be few front-line workers, or even no concept of workers, such as law firms and accounting firms.

3. There are more and more enterprises that use the Internet to link users and serve users, such as Google, and there are no workers on the front line.

With the improvement of intelligence in the future, there will be fewer and fewer front-line workers.

It depends on how you define the word "enterprise management". If everyone sitting in an air-conditioned office is regarded as "management", then this statement is true. In fact, it started the new world industry from the initiator "legal person" and managed the word "management" very well.

Management should first be practiced at the grassroots level for a period of time. With rich practical experience, I am qualified to sit in the office and learn management skills while carrying out the scheduled work management task list, so that the boss can see the industrial situation by clicking on the computer. It used to be filled in manually, but now it is replaced by computer.

In fact, it is not that there are more and more managers, but that more and more people are unwilling to engage in the profession of "workers".

Why are more and more people unwilling to be workers?

Lack of promotion opportunities

A person's promotion mainly depends on two aspects, one is extraordinary professional skills/management ability, and the other is good upper-level foundation.

As a worker, the route of promotion is doomed to be narrow. Unlike white-collar workers who work in offices, they often "look up and see" with their leaders. If they behave well, the leaders will pay attention to them, and if they are smart and alert, they will soon get promotion opportunities. On the contrary, if you are a worker, who can you show it to? You can only rely on your extraordinary skills in the front line to forcibly improve!

② The working environment is not good.

Most workers are physical contributors, which means that the personal impossibility is poor and the working environment is not good. Doing it for a few years will also damage your health, and talking about your career in the process of foreign exchange is not a very glamorous career, and you may not be discriminated against, but you will not treat others differently.

For example, if a teacher with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan and a worker with a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan go on a blind date, who will the woman favor?

③ There are certain work risks.

Whether you are a chemical factory, a machinery factory or a frontline worker in the field, there is no denying the possibility of work-related injuries. I spent some time in the first line in the early years, and I heard about the accidental death of a senior. Moreover, on 20 12, another student was corroded by chemicals and penetrated into the soles of his feet, and he was hospitalized for half a year.

④ Slow growth.

Whether we admit it or not, front-line workers are engaged in mechanical work most of the time, and it is difficult to get effective exercise in it. In this way, working 1 year is similar to working for 5 years, but the latter is more skilled.

Therefore, a person is often a worker, with a salary of 5000 or more at first; Another person is engaged in other jobs, just starting 3000. But after several years, the wages of workers have not changed much, and the wages of people engaged in other jobs are getting higher and higher. It's really more irritating than people. Laughing is more painful than walking.

Summary: At present, domestic workers have poor working environment, many potential safety hazards, high work intensity, small room for promotion, slow growth rate, and the income is not proportional to the effort, which are the reasons for the lack of front-line workers.

People who have no long-term worries will have near worries! From a long-term perspective, we should understand the reasons why workers, peasants and soldiers are not rich, farmers are unstable, soldiers are restless, scholars are making progress in science and technology, and businessmen are not alive. We should have a far-sighted understanding of life. People's correct thinking comes from summing up experiences and lessons from social practice, and wisdom comes from experience. Do good, the more you do, the more you lose! Nothing more than the economic benefits of the current social rules, serving the people wholeheartedly is for their own future interests, eating more losses, making more contributions and serving the people more. This is the jurisprudence of divine power and the truth of being a man.