Translation Results Requested Through Conyac Made Public
[Translation from English to Japanese ] Startup Advice: How to Keep Your Employees Happy Keeping employees can be di...
Original Texts
Startup Advice: How to Keep Your Employees Happy
Keeping employees can be difficult for any startup, but that’s especially true in China, where young people often expect to work jobs for a short time before moving on to the next one. So how can a startup — especially a Chinese startup — keep its employees happy enough that they stick around? Sun Qingxin, the founder of travel website Daoyou Tianxi, recently wrote a blog post sharing his advice on how to keep startup employees.
The full post is worth reading if you can read Chinese, but for those who can’t, here’s a summary of his eight main points: 1. Values are important. If you use money to entice and hire people, those people are likely to leave again as soon as a better offer comes along. And you’re a startup, so you probably don’t have enough money to entice people anyway. But if you can convince people that what you’re doing is meaningful and that there is value in it in the long-term, the money becomes less important and you’re less likely to lose people to better financial offers. 2. Be clear with everyone from the start: doing a startup isn’t a short-term prospect. Doing a startup means lots of hard work for little pay over a long period of time and then, probably, you still fail. Be sure that your employees understand what they’re getting into up front, because if they don’t, they’re going to bolt for the doors as soon as they figure it out, and then you’ve wasted a lot of time and effort on hiring and training someone you now need to replace.
Keeping employees can be difficult for any startup, but that’s especially true in China, where young people often expect to work jobs for a short time before moving on to the next one. So how can a startup — especially a Chinese startup — keep its employees happy enough that they stick around? Sun Qingxin, the founder of travel website Daoyou Tianxi, recently wrote a blog post sharing his advice on how to keep startup employees.
The full post is worth reading if you can read Chinese, but for those who can’t, here’s a summary of his eight main points: 1. Values are important. If you use money to entice and hire people, those people are likely to leave again as soon as a better offer comes along. And you’re a startup, so you probably don’t have enough money to entice people anyway. But if you can convince people that what you’re doing is meaningful and that there is value in it in the long-term, the money becomes less important and you’re less likely to lose people to better financial offers. 2. Be clear with everyone from the start: doing a startup isn’t a short-term prospect. Doing a startup means lots of hard work for little pay over a long period of time and then, probably, you still fail. Be sure that your employees understand what they’re getting into up front, because if they don’t, they’re going to bolt for the doors as soon as they figure it out, and then you’ve wasted a lot of time and effort on hiring and training someone you now need to replace.
起業するにあたっての助言―どうやって従業員にハッピーでいてもらうか
従業員を会社に留めておくことはどんなベンチャーにとっても難しいだろうが、中国ではとくにそうだ。というのも中国の若い人たちは今の仕事を次の仕事に就くまで短期間やるにすぎないものと考えているからだ。そうすると、どうすればベンチャーは（とくに中国のベンチャーは）従業員にハッピーでいてもらって彼らを会社に留めておくことができるのだろうか。旅行サイトのDaoyou Tianxiの設立者であるSun Qingxinは最近、ブログに記事を投稿し、そのなかでどうすれば従業員にベンチャーに留まってもらえるかにつき、アドバイスをこころみた。
中国語が読めるのなら投稿全体を読んでみるとためになるだろうが、そうではない人のために8つの要点を紹介しよう。
従業員を会社に留めておくことはどんなベンチャーにとっても難しいだろうが、中国ではとくにそうだ。というのも中国の若い人たちは今の仕事を次の仕事に就くまで短期間やるにすぎないものと考えているからだ。そうすると、どうすればベンチャーは（とくに中国のベンチャーは）従業員にハッピーでいてもらって彼らを会社に留めておくことができるのだろうか。旅行サイトのDaoyou Tianxiの設立者であるSun Qingxinは最近、ブログに記事を投稿し、そのなかでどうすれば従業員にベンチャーに留まってもらえるかにつき、アドバイスをこころみた。
中国語が読めるのなら投稿全体を読んでみるとためになるだろうが、そうではない人のために8つの要点を紹介しよう。
①やりがいは重要だ。もしお金でもって惹きつけて人を雇っているのなら、もっと条件のいいオファー余所からくれば雇われていた人たちは余所へ行ってしまうだろう。それにベンチャーであればそもそも人を惹きつけられるほど十分なお金を持っていないだろう。だが、もし自分がやっていることには意味があって長い目で見てやりがいがあると人を説得できたならば、お金という要素の重要性は下がり、もっと条件のいいオファーが余所から来ても従業員を失うということはなくなるだろう。
②始めから待遇等を知らせておくこと：ベンチャーを起こしてもすぐ成功するわけでない。ベンチャーを起こすということは長期間、僅かな賃金で過酷な労働をしなければならないということを意味する。そしてそれでも失敗する可能性は十分にあるのだ。従業員には前もって彼らが何に足をつっこもうとしているか理解させないといけない。というのも、そういった理解がないと、現実が分かってきた段階で従業員は去っていき、代わりの人が必要になって、雇用や訓練のために費やした努力や時間が無駄になってしまうからだ。
Result of Translation in Conyac
- Number of Characters of Requests:
- 3477letters
- Translation Language
- English → Japanese
- Translation Fee
- $78.24
- Translation Time
- 3 days
Characteristics of Translations through Conyac
