給努力的員工一點歸屬感大綱

The 40 under 40 Insider network is an online community where some of the most thoughtful and influential people in business under 40 contribute answers to timely questions about career and leadership. Today’s answer to the question how do you avoid becoming a workaholic? is written by Kevin Chou, co-founder and CEO of Kabam.

40歲以下最具影響力的商界人士將通過40位40歲以下商業精英內部網絡，及時解答職業與領導力問題。本週，我們的問題是：如何避免成爲工作狂？以下是手機遊戲開發商Kabam的聯合創始人兼CEO凱文o周的回答。

My alarm goes off. It’s pitch black, and I look over at my phone; it’s 6:00 a.m. I feel unfamiliar sheets pinning me to the bed, and realize I’m away on business. Still.

鬧鐘響了。外面還一片漆黑。我拿過手機一看，現在是早上6:00。我感覺這並非我熟悉的被窩，於是我意識到，我一直都在出差。到現在依舊如此。

What city am I in? Yesterday it was Hong Kong. So this must be… Hangzhou?

我在哪個城市？昨天我在香港。現在肯定是……杭州吧？

I bring up my calendar. A meeting with a new investment partner at 8:00 a.m., followed by a TV interview, then a meeting with a potential publishing partner and lastly, another interview before a flight to Beijing.

我翻出日程表。上午8:00要與一位新投資夥伴見面，然後是接受電視採訪，接下來是去見一位潛在發行夥伴，最後還有一次採訪，接下來要飛往北京。

That was early 2014, and I was three months into a near-constant four-month fundraising trip through Asia. I. was. exhausted.

那是2014年初，我正在亞洲馬不停蹄地進行爲期四個月的融資，當時已經奔波了三個月。我早已疲憊不堪。

Throughout all the ups and downs over the past eight years of building Kabam, that trip was the closest I had ever come to being completely burned out. But I powered through, because as CEO and co-founder, I am responsible for the livelihoods of hundreds of employees and the care of millions of customers around the globe.

過去八年，我親身經歷了Kabam發展過程中的起起伏伏，那次行程讓我最真切地感受到自己徹底精疲力竭。但我不斷鼓勵自己，因爲作爲CEO和聯合創始人，我要爲數百名員工的生計負責，我要對得起全世界數百萬用戶的關愛。

And that got me thinking. What’s the best way to stave off employee burnout? One word: ownership.

這讓我陷入思考。避免員工產生工作倦怠的最佳方法是什麼？答案只有一個詞：歸屬感。

People take better care of something they own. Homeowners tend to maintain their properties better than renters, drivers typically don’t care much about rental cars, and entrepreneurs give their lives over to the companies they build.

人們會更用心照料他們擁有的東西。房子的主人會比租戶更好地維護他們的資產，駕駛員往往不太關心租來的汽車，而創業者則會全身心投入到他們創建的公司當中。

That’s why, in my opinion, the term “workaholic” is subjective. When you’re working for something you’re personally invested in, all the hours and extra effort don’t seem like a burden. And the best way to make employees feel like owners is through liquidity, where the time and effort of all employees is financially rewarded.

所以我認爲，“工作狂”這個詞有主觀性。當你在爲自己全情投入的事情努力工作時，時間和額外付出的努力似乎都不是負擔。要培養員工的歸屬感，最好的方式是動用流動資金，對員工付出的時間和努力給予獎勵。

Kabam recently completed its second secondary offering in the past 16 months. This allowed all employees to sell some of their Kabam shares that have vested without the need for the company to go public or be acquired. This instills ownership by literally giving employees control over a stake in the company. A stock option moves from an abstract notion to something with an actual dollar value. Additionally, management and employees are not caught on a treadmill of having to hit quarterly numbers to appease the public markets and instead focus on core innovation.

Kabam最近完成了過去16個月中的第二次二級發行。這使得所有員工可以出售Kabam授予他們的部分股票，而不必等到公司上市或被收購的時候才能變現。通過使員工可以真正地支配公司的部分股份，可以逐漸培養他們的歸屬感。股票期權從抽象的概念變成了真金白銀。此外，管理層和員工也不必爲了實現令公開市場滿意的季度目標而疲於奔命，相反，他們可以更專注於核心創新。

By rewarding employees for the time they have invested, and giving them the freedom to think long-term, everyone can feel like a real owner of Kabam; allowing them to take better care of the company and themselves. That’s something that comforts me, no matter where in the world I am.

通過對員工投入公司的時間進行獎勵，給他們長遠思考的自由，每個人感覺自己就是Kabam的真正主人。如此一來，他們就會更用心地照顧好這家公司和他們自己。不論我身在何處，一想到這裏，我都會深感安慰。（財富中文網）