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每天少干1小时,工资还翻倍?福特工厂这场颠覆性实验,如何催生

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0:00All companies seek to reduce costs and maximize profits.所有公司都力求降低成本,实现利润最大化.
0:03That's why they always pay their employees所以他们总是给员工发工资
0:05as little as possible, and exploit them as much as they can.尽可能少地利用他们
0:09I'm sure this is something you've我敢肯定,这是你的东西
0:09heard so many times, or even something that you think of yourselves, but what if I told you that听到这么多次,甚至你 想到自己的东西, 但如果我告诉你
0:14it is false?是假的吗?
0:15Or at least false in the sense that companies do not always seek to pay their employees或至少虚假的意义上, 公司并不总是寻求 支付雇员
0:20as little as possible, and they do not seek to do so because, no, it is not true that offering尽可能少,他们不试图这样做,因为,不,不是真的提供
0:25low salaries to workers necessarily leads to higher profits.工人工资低必然导致利润增加。
0:28In this video, we're going to在这个视频中,我们将
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1All companies seek to reduce costs and maximize profits.所有公司都力求降低成本,实现利润最大化.
2That's why they always pay their employees所以他们总是给员工发工资
3as little as possible, and exploit them as much as they can.尽可能少地利用他们
4I'm sure this is something you've我敢肯定,这是你的东西
5heard so many times, or even something that you think of yourselves, but what if I told you that听到这么多次,甚至你 想到自己的东西, 但如果我告诉你
6it is false?是假的吗?
7Or at least false in the sense that companies do not always seek to pay their employees或至少虚假的意义上, 公司并不总是寻求 支付雇员
8as little as possible, and they do not seek to do so because, no, it is not true that offering尽可能少,他们不试图这样做,因为,不,不是真的提供
9low salaries to workers necessarily leads to higher profits.工人工资低必然导致利润增加。
10In this video, we're going to在这个视频中,我们将
11tell you the case of a company that revolutionized the way we understand the labour market.告诉你一个公司 改变了我们对劳动力市场的理解
12We're我们是
13talking about a company that, from one year to the next, all of a sudden doubled the salaries说到一家公司 一年到一年 突然把工资翻了一番
14of its workers, and that, contrary to what everybody expected, not only did not reduce不仅没有减少
15its profits, but increased them.它的利润,但增加它们。
16We will also explain the reasons that led to this result,我们还将解释导致这一结果的原因,
17and above all, why, despite this, there are still companies that pay low wages.最重要的是,为什么尽管如此,仍有一些公司支付低工资。
18Nearly 120 years ago, in the Detroit of 1903, a group of 11 businessmen realized that something近120年前,在1903年的底特律, 一群11名商人意识到
19was changing in the world of technology.技术世界正在发生变化。
20For some time, a German named Karl Benz had been marketing一段时间以来,一个叫Karl Benz的德国人一直在营销
21and developing a kind of carriage that needed no horses to move.并且开发一种不需要马匹移动的马车.
22A carriage that ran on a gasoline一辆在汽油上运行的马车
23engine, which apparently was proving quite successful in Germany.引擎,这显然证明在德国相当成功。
24That carriage, of course,那辆车,当然
25was the first automobile in history.是历史上第一辆汽车
26So, without wasting any time, our group of entrepreneurs所以,不浪费时间, 我们的企业家集团
27decided to imitate Benz's success and raise $28,000 to set up their own car factory.决定模仿奔驰的成功,筹得28000美元建立自己的汽车工厂.
28Of course,当然
29to set up a whole factory, it's not enough just to have money.建立整个工厂 光有钱是不够的
30They needed someone who knew what他们需要知道什么的人
31they were talking about, someone who could manage the project, and who also had experience as an他们正在谈论, 一个人谁可以管理项目,
32entrepreneur.企业家.
33Luckily, in that group of 11 people, there was already someone with that profile.幸运的是,在那组11个人中, 已经有人有这个特征。
34In内
35fact, he was the leader and main investor, a person who had already founded two other companies to事实上,他是领头人和主要投资人 一个已经创办了另外两家公司的人
36but who, because he was more focused on design than on sales, had not gone ahead with them.但是,由于他更注重设计而不是销售,所以他并没有走在他们的前面。
37However, this time, he already had the perfect car and was ready to launch it on the market.然而,这次他已经拥有了完美的汽车,并准备在市场上推出.
38Well, Visual Economic viewers, we are talking about none other than Henry Ford and the automobile好了,视觉经济观众,我们谈论的 除了亨利福特和汽车
39company that bears his name, the Ford Motor Company.福特汽车公司
40And yes, I know if Henry Ford is studied是的,我知道如果亨利・福特学习
41in the history books, it is mainly for his role in the development of the assembly line在史书中,这主要是因为他在编组线的开发中的作用
42but let me tell you that this was not always the case in his great factory.但让我告诉你 在他的大工厂里并不总是这样
43Until 1908, Ford could be considered a centre of independent craftsmen rather than an integrated直到1908年,福特可以被认为是一个独立的工匠中心,而不是一个综合的工匠中心.
44factory as we might imagine it today.就像我们今天想象的那样
45To give you an idea, in its early days, the company had just告诉你一个想法, 在它的早期,公司刚刚
46450 employees, two-thirds of whom were highly qualified masters, working according to their450名雇员,其中三分之二是高素质的硕士,按照他们的
47own standards and working methods.拥有自己的标准和工作方法。
48A bit chaotic, don't you think?你不觉得有点乱吗?
49Well, actually, this system of实际上,这个系统
50Ford was not exactly in the business of building cars from scratch but rather assembling them.福特并不是从头开始建造汽车 而是把它们组装起来
51Every day, different parts arrived at the factory from different producers that the craftsmen had每天都有不同的零件从不同的生产商 运抵工厂 工匠有
52to mould, work on and then join together to build each car.然后一起建造每辆车
53A type of car which, by the way,一种车,顺便说一句,
54was not necessarily the same as the rest and right here is the key that changed everything.和其余的不一定一样 这里就是改变一切的关键
55Although the factory worked relatively well and made a profit, Henry Ford's philosophy was opposed虽然工厂运作相对良好,并盈利,但亨利·福特的哲学却遭到反对.
56to this way of producing, among other reasons because he considered it to be inefficient.特别是因为他认为效率低下
57So he decided to change it completely.于是他决定彻底改变.
58So what was his philosophy then, you may ask?他的哲学是什么,你可以问?
59Well, listen for yourselves.好吧,你自己听着。
60As a result of this way of understanding the industry between 1908 and 1914,由于1908年至1914年间对工业的这种理解,
61a radical restructuring process took place in the Ford factory.福特工厂进行了彻底重组
62A process that would过程将
63the production of a single car model, the iconic Ford Model T.生产单车型号,标志性福特型号T.
64The great advantage of this change is that Ford could now order parts over and over and over again这个变化的最大优势是 福特现在可以反复订购零件
65from its suppliers.从它的供应商。
66That would always be the same for each and every vehicle.每辆车都一样
67The parts would be这些部件是:
68the same size, the same shape, the same materials and so on and so forth.大小相同,形状相同,材料相同等.
69In other words, from that换句话说,从这个
70point on, Ford no longer needed skilled craftsmen to mould the parts one by one.福特不再需要熟练的工匠 一个接一个地塑造零件
71What it needed were它所需要的是
72to simply put them together.只是把它们拼凑起来
73Something that was not only much faster but also something that could不仅速度快得多,而且可能
74be done by just about anyone.只能由任何人来做
75The effect of this restructuring was so extreme that the Ford factory这次重组的效果如此极端,以至于福特工厂
76went from having 450 employees in 1908 to 13,623 in 1913.从1908年有450名员工,到1913年有13,623名员工。
77And pay attention because here comes the注意一点,因为...
78most important part.最重要的一点。
79Of these 13,623 employees, 75% were foreigners with no education or在这13 623名雇员中,75%是未受过教育的外国人,或
80qualifications.资格。
81Ford was no longer a centre of independent craftsmen but an entire factory of福特不再是独立工匠的中心 而是整个工厂
82operators who worked like clockwork, following very simple and specialized steps which were also done操作员像钟表工作一样工作,遵循非常简单和专门的步骤,也这样做
83one after the other in a work line.一个接一个在工作线。
84And just like that, Henry Ford's famous assembly line was born.就这样,亨利·福特著名的组装线诞生了.
85As many of you already know, the results of this assembly line were impressive.正如你们中许多人已经知道的那样,这个组装线的结果令人印象深刻.
86The factory went工厂去了
87from producing one car every 12 hours to producing one every 93 minutes.从每12小时生产一辆汽车到每93分钟生产一辆汽车。
88Annual profit rates exceeded年利润率超过
89130% of the value of the assets and 96 out of every 100 cars sold in the market were Ford Model资产价值的130%和市场销售的每100辆汽车中有96辆是福特模型公司
90T's (英语).
91Which, by the way, was not surprising if we take into account that while the Ford T cost $490顺便说一句 如果我们考虑到福特T的价格是490美元
92in 1915, the Cadillac Type 51, one of its competitors, cost four times as much, $1,975.1915年,其竞争对手之一的凯迪拉克51型,耗资4倍,为1,975.
93In any case, Ford's great revolution still had one final step left.无论如何,福特的伟大革命还剩下最后一步.
94A step that would end up一步会结束
95boosting his productivity and that would change economic theory forever.提高他的生产力,那将永远改变经济理论。
96A step which we have我们的一步
97already hinted about in this video.已经在本视频中暗示。
98MONEY FOR ALL给大家的钱
99In late 1930, when Ford's moving assembly line was up and running at full speed,1930年末,福特移动组装线全速上架并运行时,
100great news reached the factory workers.伟大的消息传到工厂的工人。
101As of the 1st of January 1914, workers were eligible for a从1914年1月1日起,工人有资格获得
102wage increase.增加工资。
103But take note because it was not a small improvement, not at all.但请注意,因为这不是一个小改进,根本不是。
104It was a raise这是加薪
105that boosted their pay from $2.34 to $5 per day of work.他们的工资从每天2.34美元增加到每天5美元。
106Yes, that's right, Henry Ford more than是的,没错,亨利福特比
107doubled the salary of his workers almost overnight.几乎一夜之间,他的工人的工资翻了一番。
108And yes, I'm sure many of you are thinking,是的,我相信你们很多人都在想
109come on, you're kidding, doubling a salary from $2 to $5?开什么玩笑,把工资从2美元翻一番到5美元?
110Well wait, calm down!等等,冷静点!
111To put it in把它放进去
112perspective, updating the figures to today's value, it is as if a worker went from earning $1,800将数字更新到今天的价值,
113to almost $3,890.大约3 890美元。
114Can you imagine if that happened in a company today?你能想象如果今天发生在公司里吗?
115The curious thing is that this奇怪的是,这个
116measure alone cost the company $10 million, which represented approximately 50% of the光是计量就花费了1 000万美元,大约占
117forecast for that year.该年的预测。
118And of course, the question is, how is it possible that Ford当然 问题是 福特怎么可能
119shareholders were willing to lose half of their profits to implement such a steep wage hike?股东们愿意为了如此大幅度地提高工资而损失一半的利润?
120Did they become altruistic and stop pursuing their own interests?他们是否变得利他主义并停止追求自己的利益?
121Well, the short answer is no.简短的回答是否定的。
122Or或者说
123at least, that's not what the data indicates.至少,这不是 数据显示。
124Not only did the wage hike not lose Ford shareholders不仅工资上涨没有失去福特股东
125a single dollar, it made them even more money.只要一块钱,就能让他们赚更多钱
126Specifically, Ford managed to increase its car具体来说,福特设法增加了车
127production by 2,000 units, increased its profits by 15%, and the workforce increased its productivity生产2 000个单位,利润增加15%,劳动力提高生产力
128by up to 70%.高达70%。
129All this in a context where the price of its cars were constantly decreasing.在汽车价格不断下降的背景下,所有这一切。
130Nevertheless, take a look.不过,看看
131Surprised?惊讶吗?
132I'm sure you are.我敢肯定,你会的。
133But now, how is it possible that by但是现在,这怎么可能是
134increasing wages in such an exaggerated way, a company can recover the assumed cost and, on top以如此夸张的方式增加工资,公司可以收回假定的费用,而且,最高
135of that, make even more money?赚更多的钱?
136What need did Ford have to do that?福特为什么要这么做?
137Could this be applied to all这是否适用于所有
138companies in the market and to any situation?公司在市场上和任何情况?
139Well, let's take a look.好吧,让我们来看看。
140AN EFFICIENCY WAGE一个高效的时代
141A first reason why we might think that Ford raised wages is because it did not have enough我们为什么认为福特提高工资 是因为它不够
142workers.工人们.
143Therefore, if it did not offer high wages, it could not produce as many cars as it因此,如果它不提供高工资,它不能生产那么多的汽车
144would like to produce.想要生产。
145However, nothing could be further from the truth.然而,没有什么比事实更进一步了。
146In 1914, a great crisis1914年,一场大危机
147hit Detroit.击中底特律。
148Unemployment benefits doubled, and frankly, practically any unemployed person失业津贴翻了一番,坦率地说,几乎是任何失业人员
149would have accepted a job in the Ford factory at a wage of $2 a day.将会以每天两美元的工资 在福特工厂接受一份工作
150So you could see that,这样你就能明白
151the lack of workers had nothing to do with it.工人的缺乏与此事无关。
152But take a look at this fact.但看看这个事实。
153In the year 1913 alone, 50,448 workers left their jobs at the Ford factory.仅在1913年,就有50,448名工人离开福特工厂工作.
154Something that,某种东西,
155if you have been paying attention, you will realize doesn't add up at all.如果你一直关注, 你会意识到 这完全没有增加。
156How is it possible that more than 50,000 people resigned or were fired if, I have just told you怎么会有超过5万人辞职或被解雇呢?
157that for that year, there were only about 13,000 workers in the factory?那年工厂里只有13000名工人?
15813,000?13000块?
159Well,那个
160it's entirely possible and it's called job rotation.这是完全可能的,它被称为工作轮换。
161It turns out that the work at the结果发现,工作在
162Ford factory was so hard and demanding that most of the workers decided to quit after three months.福特工厂十分艰难,要求大部分工人在三个月后决定退出.
163For the same job, there could be four different people occupying it throughout the year and,就同一份工作而言,全年可能有四个不同的人从事这项工作,而且,
164as you can imagine, this caused a lot of problems.你可以想象,这造成了很多问题。
165These, for example, were the four main ones.例如,这些是四个主要方面。
166One, every time a new worker arrived, he had to learn his job from scratch,一,每次新工人到来, 他不得不从零开始学习工作,
167which obviously slowed down the production process.这显然减缓了生产过程。
168Two, before resigning, many employees二,辞职前,许多员工
169and did not notify the factory in time for the factory to find a replacement.并且没有及时通知工厂以便工厂找到替代者。
170As a result, several days of work were lost every time someone resigned.因此,每当有人辞职,就会失去几天的工作。
171Three, because foremen didn't know exactly how many or which workers they had at their disposal,3,因为工头 并不知道他们有多少工人 或他们拥有的工人,
172in some cases they were poorly organized employees who performed unnecessary tasks.在某些情况下,他们组织不良,执行不必要的任务。
173And four, since most workers left their jobs unsatisfied, many of them, before leaving,4,因为大多数工人 离开工作不满意, 许多人,在离开之前,
174were sabotaging the factory or working at half throttle.破坏工厂或半节流阀工作
175In short, this was a very,简言之,这是一个非常,
176serious problem for Ford.对福特来说是个严重的问题
177Do you think it was a problem that the wage increase managed to solve?你认为这是个提高工资的问题吗?
178Well, indeed, and it did so with flying colors.确实,它是用飞色做的。
179The turnover rate dropped drastically from 370%更替率从370%急剧下降
180in 1913 to only 16% in 1915.1913年到1915年只有16%.
181However, this was not the only problem that this abrupt salary不过,这不是这个突然发薪的唯一问题
182increase managed to solve.增加已解决 。
183As Henry Ford himself said, if the sweeper's heart is in his work,正如亨利·福特本人所说,如果扫荡者的心脏在他的作品中,
184he could save us $5 a day by picking up small tools instead of sweeping them up.他每天可以省我们5美元 通过拿起小工具 而不是把它们打扫干净
185Motivation,动机,
186effort and commitment to the company played a fundamental role in this story.公司的努力和承诺在这个故事中起了根本的作用。
187After the implementation of the new wages, absenteeism rates went from 10% to 2.5%.新工资实施后,缺勤率从10%上升到2.5%。
188Sick leave was reduced by 90%.病假减少了90%。
189And albeit, anecdotally, several stories from the factory虽然,传闻,工厂的几个故事
190support the thesis that employee motivation skyrocketed.支持员工动机激增的理论。
191Be that as it may, in this video不管怎样,在这段录像里
192we still need to answer one question.我们还需要回答一个问题。
193Why don't all companies do what Henry Ford did and pay their为什么公司不都照亨利·福特做的去做 并支付他们的
194more to improve productivity?更能提高生产力?
195Well, listen up.好吧,听着。
196The first reason why not all companies apply Henry Ford's high-wage model is because not all of them并不是所有公司都采用Henry Ford的高薪模式 是因为不是所有的
197have the same problems that the Ford Motor Company had.和福特汽车公司的问题一样
198That is, even if a company pays也就是说,即使公司付钱
199relatively low wages, it does not necessarily suffer from high levels of labor turnover.工资相对较低,不一定受到高水平劳动力周转的影响。
200And even if it does, this may not affect it as much as it did Ford on its assembly line.即便如此,这可能不会像福特在组装线上那样影响它.
201Second reason is that companies need to have certain control mechanisms over their employees.第二个原因是公司需要对其雇员建立某些控制机制。
202When Ford raised wages, the cost of an under-worked employee rose.当福特提高工资时,一个工作不足的雇员的成本上升.
203If I pay you如果我付你钱
204more and you work less, I will be losing money.越多越少工作 我就会输钱
205So, between 1913 and 1915, the number of supervisors因此,在1913年至1915年间,主管人数
206in the factory went from one for every 25 workers to one for every 15.工厂每25名工人中就有1名工人,每15名工人中就有1名工人。
207This is something very easy这很简单
208to do on an assembly line.在装配线上做
209However, the matter of evaluating staff gets a little tricky in less但是,评估工作人员的问题在减少时会变得有些棘手。
210mechanical and more complicated jobs, so instead, many companies prefer to avoid the risk of paying因此,许多公司倾向于避免支付风险
211more and then not having the results pay off.但结果却得不到回报。
212Another reason, and perhaps the most important另一个原因,也许最重要的
213of all, is that not everyone could afford to pay high salaries.最重要的是,并不是每个人都能支付高薪。
214And no, we do not mean paying a不,我们不意味着支付
215lot, we mean paying above average, which in economics is known as efficiency wages.很多,我们的意思是支付高于平均水平, 这在经济学中被称为效率工资。
216You see,你知道吗?
217if Ford's measure was successful, it was because no one else but Ford paid $5 a day.如果福特的计量成功, 那是因为除了福特每天付5美元之外,没有其他人。
218If it lowered如果降下来
219labor turnover and increased the effort of its workers, it was precisely because they knew that正是因为他们知道
220they would not find a better wage than the one Ford offered them.他们不会找到更好的工资 比福特给他们。
221Not because it was a high wage,不是因为工资很高
222but because it was a unique wage that no one else was paying.但因为这是独一无二的工资, 没有人支付。
223Therefore, if all companies were to因此,如果所有公司
224offer huge wage increases, then the job retention effects, which ultimately reduced turnover and工资大幅增长,然后是保留工作的影响,最终降低了更替率和
225improved performance, would just disappear.提高性能 就会消失
226This could lead to a situation where companies compete这可能导致公司竞争的局面。
227to see which one offers the highest salaries and only the most competitive will be able to replicate看哪一个能提供最高薪水 只有最有竞争力的人才能复制
228Ford's model.福特的模特儿.
229What's more, in Ford's case, it was in a rapidly expanding industry.此外,在福特的例子中,它是一个迅速扩张的产业.
230In other words,也就是说,
231its major problems were not related to costs or productivity but to increasing its production as其主要问题与成本或生产率无关,而与提高产量无关。
232much as possible in the shortest amount of time, while maintaining efficiency.在尽可能短的时间内尽可能保持效率。
233In fact, it is其实是的
234common for many fast-growing industries to tend to pay higher wages.许多快速增长的工业通常支付较高的工资。
235In any case, visual economic无论如何,视觉经济
236community, now I want to ask you the questions.现在我要问你的问题
237If you owned a company, would you apply Ford's如果你拥有一个公司, 你会应用福特的
238model or would you pay your employees more or less than what every other company in the industry模特儿,或者你会给你的员工多或少 支付比其他行业的公司多或少
239pays?付钱?
240What other reasons can you think of for offering efficiency wages that we haven't explained?你能想到什么其他理由来提供效率工资 而我们还没有解释?
241Did you know, by the way, that Henry Ford was not actually the inventor of the assembly line?你知道,顺便说一句, 亨利福特其实不是 组装线的发明者吗?
242I encourage you to research which other car company did it first and then tell us about it我鼓励你先研究哪个其他的汽车公司先做,然后告诉我们
243in the comments.在评论中。
244And as always, don't forget that here on Visual Economic we release new videos和往常一样,不要忘记,在这里 在视觉经济 我们发布新的视频
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246If you liked the video, go ahead, give it a like and I'll see you in the next one.如果你喜欢这段视频,请继续, 给它类似,我会看到你在下一个。
247Take care,小心点
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