The _gig worker_ market, which is a headache for glasses companies, is really _30 years in Hedong and 40 years in Hexi_!

The "gig worker" market, which is a headache for glasses companies, is really "30 years in Hedong and 40 years in Hexi"! Back then, many people didn't hesitate to "sharpen their brains" to enter the factory in order to find a job, but now some people don't care about entering the factory.

There is such a group of gig workers in the Wenzhou glasses industry, who would rather do odd jobs around the company than go to work on time as regular employees in the factory. In this way, on the one hand, the gig market is getting bigger and bigger, and they only do odd jobs for eyewear companies that are in a hurry; On the other hand, glasses companies can't recruit stable employees, and business owners have a headache! So what is the reason why these "temporary workers" are reluctant to enter the factory and follow the step-by-step work? How will eyewear companies guide them to become their own stable "new force"? To this end, this journal conducted an investigation and interview.

Active "gig worker" market There is a huge team of gig workers, they do not enter the factory to be a regular employee of the enterprise always take a shot to change a place, active in the Wenzhou glasses industry makes many glasses bosses headache and unpredictable!銆€銆€One day in August 2011, an eyeglass factory in Dongfeng Industrial Zone, Wenzhou, was rushing a batch of goods due to lack of manpower, and the boss Mr. Xie was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

Later, someone from a master instructed him, why not invite some "odd jobs" to do it?銆€銆€As soon as Mr. Xie slapped the door of his head, he posted an "enticing" advertisement for temporary workers next to the door. In less than half an hour, someone came to investigate. Mr. Xie asked, how many people can you bring over to do it? But the inquirers said, "You can have as many people as you want."

Sure enough, the inquirer made a phone call, and more than 10 odd workers came to Mr. Xie's factory, and his goods were finished in a few hours...... Mr. Zhao, the owner of a glasses company, also told reporters that his home factory is a glasses supporting enterprise, and in the past three years, there are few fixed general workers in his factory.

I remember one time, he was supposed to only have four or five people, but he ended up with seventeen or eight, which shows that the number of gig workers is not a small number now. According to a person familiar with the matter, there are currently tens of thousands of gig workers in the glasses industry in Wenzhou, who have worked in glasses companies, and are quite familiar with the local environment, as well as understand the technological process of glasses factories, some of whom have been the technical backbone of glasses companies.

They usually rent a house not far from the optical industrial park, and usually send people to the gate of the enterprise to inquire around, if there is odd jobs to do, they will call their companions to quickly pick up work. In addition, the insider also told reporters that most of these gig teams are family members, fellow villagers and workers they knew in the past, and if the price of work can be negotiated, they often "move in the nest", showing strong cohesion.

And this cohesion often becomes a bargaining chip between the gig team and the recruiting company.

Article source: Internet article collation: glasses.com.