People who work to just live are not necessarily lazy, or uninterested in their careers. They just want a balance in their lifestyle and will choose jobs that do not require a 16-hours a day, 7-days a week commitment. 
So who do you need in your company?.
No, who do you really need? This is an important question because if you choose the wrong type you will only succeed in having an unhappy workforce with a high turnover. If you donít know what motivates your people, how can you, well ... eh, motivate them?
Many companies in China will say that they want the ílive to workí people, because they think that is the right answer. But it may be that what they really need is just someone who can do the job. Someone who finds the work a little challenging and is sufficiently motivated to complete the work tasks.
The good thing about people like this is that they are not ambitious enough to be looking out for other opportunities on 51job all the time. They will stay with you for a long time and will naturally improve the quality of their work, albeit at a slow pace.
So if you have an online hiring system, and a well defined hiring process, you may want to take a step back and look at how your website and your hiring process presents itself to the two different audiences.
Take the viewpoint of a candidate and ask yourself how you are selling your company. What message is there in the online job advertisements. What do the staff profiles say? If you use promotional videos, are they high paced, or mid-paced? What is your hiring brand?.
Take a look at your Job Descriptions. Do you scare of good people with words like íchallengingí, íaggressiveí, ítenaciousí or íresults orientatedí? For many people these are just euphemisms that tell them that the company is not well managed and needs people who can handle the ensuing chaos.
Ask yourself: Based on what I see, would I take this job? If you wouldnít, change the branding of the jobs and get the people you need, not the people you have been told to want.
Living to Work, or Working to Live
Some people work to live, while others live to work
