How are shifts arranged in the foreign chemical industry?
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As a chemical industry worker these days, different companies in China have various shift patterns: there are those with four shifts per week over three days, those with five shifts per week over four days, and those with three shifts (either 8 hours or 12 hours each). In developed countries abroad, what’s the shift pattern for their workers? It mainly involves staying up late a lot, which is exhausting. Are foreign chemical plants still more advanced, with too few shift workers?
Do you know how the domestic model came about? . . . . learned
To the best of my knowledge, this situation exists abroad as well, but the salary and benefits are much better there, and labor union systems provide excellent protection. The shift work system in our country draws on the practices of those Western companies that exploit workers for profit, and combined with the remarkable talent of the Chinese people for exploitation, it becomes even more effective.
Working shifts is much more comfortable now, and the working environment has improved as well; for companies that operate on a continuous production basis, the shift patterns are more or less the same
What we do is a four-shift, three-shift system.
It’s already good enough to be able to operate on a four-shift system; labor costs are too high these days.
Continuous production is also unavoidable. It’s the same everywhere; it’s just that there are slight differences in the treatment patterns