Reborn Industrial Tycoon

As early as 1978, the state issued the "Notice on Implementing the Reward and Piece-rate Wage System", emphasizing that qualified enterprises can implement the piece-rate wage system to reflect more work and more gain.

However, at that time, they were all state-owned enterprises, and it was relatively difficult to implement piece-rate wages in state-owned enterprises.

What state-owned enterprises pay attention to is egalitarianism. At the very least, people in the same position, the same level, the same length of service, and the same salary will earn the same. Even if there is a difference of one yuan, they might be able to bring trouble to the factory director's office.

When Li Weidong contracted the garment factory, he thought about implementing a piece-rate wage system. However, considering that the garment factory is a state-owned enterprise after all, and the garment workers are all state-owned enterprise employees, Li Weidong finally gave up the plan of piece-rate wage.

There may not be any benefits to using piece-rate wages in state-owned enterprises, and it may even attract complaints from those "state-owned enterprise bastards" if it goes well; if it goes wrong, it will definitely cause trouble.

So at that time, Li Weidong used overtime pay to motivate garment factory employees.

Overtime pay is an additional bonus, which is equivalent to the basic salary, allowing employees to earn more. The original salary is not less, so it will not cause opposition from state-owned enterprise employees. Employees in garment factories are still happy to work overtime to make money.

Today's electric furnace factory is Li Weidong's own company. If it implements piece-rate wages, there will basically be no resistance. So what if the workers disagree. In a private enterprise, if you want to work, you can work. If you don't, you can leave. The boss has the final say.

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What's more, the piece-rate wage of 70 cents per unit given by Li Weidong is definitely a high salary. Counting the basic salary, it is no problem to earn 120 yuan a month, and those with skillful skills can earn 150 yuan.

It is equivalent to the level of workers in state-owned enterprises.

For workers in township enterprises, if they can reach the salary level of state-owned enterprise employees, they can already burn high prices.

As for the piece-rate wages that should be paid to workers, Li Weidong also calculated them.

When Foxconn OEMed the iPhone 7 in later generations, the OEM fee for one unit was only US$5. After excluding Foxconn's various operating expenses, it would be good to have 2 US dollars actually distributed to the assembly line workers. And these 2 US dollars go through several processes.

The assembly line workers shared it together.

When the iPhone 7 was launched, the 32G model cost $649, the 128G model cost $749, and the 256G model cost $849. Calculated at $700, the salary that the assembly line workers could get accounted for only 0.28% of the price of an iPhone.

Li Weidong's air fryer sells for close to 300 US dollars. According to the same ratio, Li Weidong should pay the workers 0.8 US dollars for each air fryer processed, which is 3 yuan when converted into RMB.

But one thing cannot be ignored. The efficiency of Foxconn assembly line workers is much higher than that of electric furnace factory workers.

The first is the bonus of the assembly line. It is normal for a set of assembly lines to increase production efficiency by two to three times.

Secondly, Foxconn has the world's top management level. Under Foxconn's management system, workers' efficiency is almost squeezed to the extreme, which is something that small businesses like electric furnace factories can never replicate.

Therefore, the production efficiency of the electric furnace factory is probably not even a quarter of Foxconn's. Li Weidong's piece-rate salary of 7 cents per unit is considered generous.

At this Canton Fair, Li Weidong received a total of more than 40,000 orders for air fryers. According to the piece rate of 70 cents per unit, it cost 30,000 yuan. This amount of money is just drizzle for Li Weidong.

But if you can use a mere 30,000 yuan to ensure the production capacity of the electric furnace factory, it is definitely a super deal.

You have already won an order worth 12 million US dollars, do you still care about this 30,000 yuan!

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When Li Weidong mentioned cutting wheat, Ma Zhongyi immediately understood Li Weidong's true intention.

Ma Zhongyi thought for a while and said: "Weidong, I can understand what you mean. You give such a high piece rate just because you want the workers not to go back to cut wheat, but to stay in the factory and continue production. It's so fast."

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"Yes, Brother Ma, do you think this method will work? In this way, ordinary workers can earn 150 yuan a month, and they can spend more than ten yuan to hire someone to cut wheat! For more than ten yuan, it should be

Can we hire people in rural areas?" Li Weidong said.

Ma Zhongyi shook his head: "Haha, Wei Dong, you still don't understand the countryside! For more than ten yuan, you can hire people to help harvest wheat, but when the wheat is ripe, everyone can't do it alone.

Snow in front of the door?

If you want to hire someone to harvest wheat, you have to wait until those people have finished harvesting their own wheat before they will be free to help you harvest wheat. At least half of the wheat harvested by then will be lost, and if it is too much, you will lose one percent.

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And I think most people are reluctant to spend more than ten dollars to hire someone to harvest wheat. Wouldn’t it be better to save more than ten dollars and do it yourself?”

Li Weidong suddenly remembered a joke, saying that if there were 100 US dollars on the ground, Bill Gates would definitely not pick it up, because from an economic point of view, he could make more money in the time he spent picking up the 100 US dollars.

However, in reality, Bill Gates said that if there were really $100 on the ground, he would definitely pick it up.

Because daily life is not economics, picking up money is instinctive. When Bill Gates saw 100 US dollars on the ground, he first did things based on instinct instead of thinking about economics first.

There are many situations like this in reality. For example, a certain online article author repeatedly compares the prices of a certain group and a certain food when ordering takeout to see where he can save an extra dollar. If he has the time to code a few more words, it is not as simple as calculating.

Is this one dollar discount great?

It is human nature to plan for small profits and small profits.

The workers in the electric furnace factory also have this mentality. Wouldn't it cost more than ten yuan to hire someone to cut the wheat? If you go home and cut the wheat yourself, you can save this money and feel happy!

At this time, Li Weidong had already realized that what Ma Zhongyi said was more reasonable. A piece-rate wage alone was not enough to keep these workers from rural areas in the factory.

Li Weidong thought for a moment and thought to himself: "It seems that we have to introduce a competition mechanism to let workers compete for work!"

So Li Weidong said: "Brother Ma, I went to the Canton Fair this time and received an order for more than 40,000 air fryers. According to our current production speed, it will take three months to complete.

So I thought, simply divide the production tasks of these 40,000 units into three batches. After the first batch of orders are produced, we will stop for a day and then release the second batch of production tasks.

At the same time, we need to announce every day how many pieces of the batch of orders we are producing are still unfinished. In this way, we can let the workers in the factory know that there are fewer and fewer orders left. If you don’t do it,

Then other people rush to do it, and then there will be nothing left!"

Ma Zhongyi nodded: "That's an idea. You are smart and have a trick in your mind!"

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The piece-rate wage of 70 cents per unit is very attractive, plus the basic salary of 30 yuan per month. The workers calculated carefully and found that according to this new wage standard, they earn more than before. They are more skilled.

The wages of our masters are comparable to those of employees in state-owned enterprises.

As long as it can bring benefits, there will be no resistance to reforms. Of course, workers are in favor of reforms that can make more money.

The only thing that makes the workers a little nervous is that every day they announce how many air fryers are left and the number is posted on the wall. This is like a time bomb countdown, which makes people feel

Flustered.

There are 13,000 pieces left today, 12,500 pieces tomorrow, 12,000 pieces the day after tomorrow, and only 7,000 pieces left a few days later. Every morning, when they see this number decrease, the workers

Everyone will feel that money has slipped from their hands.

Every time this number is reduced, it is only 70 cents!

By one day in late May, this number was finally reduced to just over 300.

In the production workshop, worker Liu Tao had just finished assembling an air fryer. When he went to get the materials, he found that they were gone.

"Why are there no materials?" Liu Tao asked the person responsible for distributing materials.

"They have all been distributed. There are only more than 300 units to be produced today. If you are quick, you can make one more. If you are slow, you can only assemble one less." The other party replied.

Liu Tao looked back and found that there were indeed several workers in the workshop, just starting to assemble a new air fryer.

"I made seventy cents less!" Liu Tao looked depressed.

Then Liu Tao found the workshop director and asked: "Director, the materials have been used up, what should I do next?"

"We don't have any materials, so let's take a rest and wait for the next batch of production tasks." The workshop director replied.

"When will the next batch of production tasks come?" Liu Tao asked quickly.

"I heard from Factory Manager Ma that it might take a day or two." The workshop director replied.

"One or two days? That means there may be no work tomorrow?" Liu Tao asked.

The workshop director nodded: "I guess so. Otherwise, you won't come here tomorrow, and you won't be able to survive anyway!"

"That's not possible. Even if you don't have a job, as long as you work, you will still get a basic salary of one dollar!" Liu Tao paused and said, "At worst, I will bring you a deck of playing cards, and the day's work will be gone.

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The next day, the new production tasks had not yet arrived, so the workers were playing cards, bragging, and listening to the radio in the workshop, without doing any work and earning a basic salary of one yuan in vain.

But everyone seemed unhappy. In the past, they could earn three or four yuan a day, but today they only earned one yuan. Rounding off, it looked like they had lost 100 million!

Of course, this was deliberately arranged by Li Weidong. He did not arrange work for one day just to let the workers understand that the piece-rate wage of 70 cents per unit was not available every day!

On the third day, some workers began to become anxious. At this time, the next batch of production tasks finally arrived.

The workers had been waiting all day. Now that they had a new production task, they immediately started working on the new task.

The number of remaining production tasks on the wall is still decreasing every day.

It’s June in the blink of an eye.

The harvest season is coming soon, and the wheat in Qinghe City has reached nine-mature age, and it’s time to harvest.