The 25-year-old woman residing in Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi, works as a advertising and marketing worker for a petrochemical firm.
She stated working time beyond regulation isn’t as scary as being chosen for the efficiency workforce to compete with different departments – an exercise that she considers to be tiring and time-consuming. She needed to apply intensely outdoors of labor hours for a month simply to do a 3-5 minute dance efficiency final yr.
In earlier years, Ngoc was all the time placed on the efficiency record by the division head as a result of she was newly employed and single. Feeling aggravated, this yr she determined to fake to have a leg damage earlier than the efficiency workforce record was finalized.
Duc Minh, 37, in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, can be not keen on his firm’s year-end celebration.
In accordance with him, events was easy, the place everybody may meet and join after a yr of labor.
However he stated that now attendees are continuously compelled to drink alcohol, and the efficiency half is usually thought-about inappropriate.
“A number of days in the past at our year-end celebration, the corporate even employed a gaggle of dancers to decorate in revealing garments and carry out on stage,” Minh stated. “It was purported to be a celebration, nevertheless it felt extra like a bar – so loud that I couldn’t hear something even when I shouted.”
Khanh Ngoc and Duc Minh are among the many 28% of people that “completely don’t like year-end events,” in accordance into VnExpress’ newest survey of 1,500 readers. Some 47% of these within the survey felt “detached to the celebration”, and solely 25% stated they appreciated it.
On social media, many posts lamenting year-end events have acquired a whole lot of sympathy.
Not solely in Vietnam, a 2023 year-end report from the web recruitment platform Lagou in China additionally confirmed that 54% of individuals surveyed expressed reluctance relating to firm events. The primary motive was a dislike of communication, whereas one third of the interviewees additionally blamed the stress to carry out.
With almost 20 years within the discipline of human useful resource administration at massive companies in Hanoi, Vu Thanh Ha stated that each time she organizes a yr finish celebration for workers, many individuals complain or refuse to take part.
“Probably the most generally given motive is the big quantity of year-end work that must be achieved. Moreover, there are too many events with family and friends to mark the identical event, inflicting folks to overeat, and making them reluctant relating to firm events,” Ha stated.
Psychologist Trinh Trung Hoa stated that employees’ lives are more and more enhancing, so organizing meals at eating places or accommodations doesn’t create as a lot pleasure as earlier than.
Older workers don’t wish to take part in thrilling actions, whereas some others have to arrange for their very own household vacation celebrations so that they make excuses for not having time. Lastly, being compelled by their superiors to carry out dances makes them really feel pressured and drained.
Bich Hanh, a communications officer in Cau Giay district, Hanoi, stated she was “afraid of yr finish events” as a result of the company often holds them for 2 days and one night time in far-away provinces. Probably the most troublesome factor is that it occurs close to Tet, and reserving a ticket to return house is troublesome when Hanh’s household is within the central province of Ha Tinh, 400 km from Hanoi.
“The celebration must be registered a month prematurely, so In case you do not take part, you would possibly threat getting a nasty analysis on the finish of the yr – which impacts your wage and bonus,” Hanh stated.
Affiliate Professor. Dr. Do Minh Cuong, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Affiliation of Enterprise Tradition Improvement, stated that it’s simple for these sorts of issues to create stubbornness and rebelliousness amongst cohorts the place teamwork is paramount.
Such has been the case for Khanh Ngoc, who after a few years of being compelled to carry out for events made her developed a rebellious mindset, forcing her to consider each option to keep away from collaborating. “Even when I needed to fake to be disabled for an entire month, I might nonetheless settle for it as a result of this can be a method for me to have time to cope with work and relaxation, as a substitute of training exhausting for no profit,” Ngoc stated.
As for Duc Minh, after attending many “inappropriate” events, he refused to take part within the firm’s year-end celebration within the coming years. He plans to as a substitute invite shut colleagues to prepare a small, intimate, and comfy celebration earlier than the Tet vacation.
So as to not put stress on workers when collaborating within the year-end celebration, Thanh Ha emphasised that crucial factor is that workers volunteer for the celebration.
She stated the division organizing the occasion also needs to create one thing new to draw workers, corresponding to inviting well-known singers {and professional} hosts, and create extra alternatives for everybody to work together. If there are aggressive actions between departments, the corporate can enhance the worth of the prizes and provides enticing items so that everybody has the motivation to take part.
Dr. Cuong stated that workers themselves additionally want to specific their private opinions in regards to the firm’s year-end celebration.
“In case you prefer it or not, you could clarify clearly find out how to enhance the standard and effectivity of firm occasions. Keep away from losing cash and making your self offended due to it – which may adversely have an effect on your workforce at work,” Cuong stated.