As soon as Ren Hongfei arrived at the company early in the morning, he heard someone discussing layoffs. He approached him very confused and asked, "What layoffs?"
The people chatting were from the Deep Space Computer Technology Department. The Game Division had a lot of business dealings with Deep Space Computer, so Ren Hongfei was quite familiar with several people in their technology department.
Seeing Ren Hongfei approaching, the only girl among the group said with a serious expression, "Team Leader Ren, don't you know? Your head office has too many people and the salary burden is too heavy. Now we have to lay off employees. I
I guess your game division will be the hardest hit by layoffs. After all, you haven’t achieved much in the past two years, so you should be careful.”
Ren Hongfei raised his eyebrows with a strange look on his face, "Where did you get the news? The company has never heard of any news about layoffs. Our game division has been asking the human resources department to recruit people for us in the past two days.
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Ren Hongfei didn't believe the news of layoffs at all, especially in their game division.
The game division has not been established for a long time, and there are not many employees. However, Blizzard is currently preparing to release "Warcraft 3". Their department needs to recruit more people, so how can they lay off employees?
As for other departments, the possibility of layoffs is not high. All departments are recruiting people. The busiest department in the company is the human resources department. I heard that the company is planning to outsource part of the recruitment work in order to improve the efficiency of recruiting people.
The girl sneered, "What do you know? Recruitment and layoffs are not contradictory. Let's lay off someone like you who does nothing every day and still gets a high salary, and then recruit some fresh graduates who have just graduated and are low-paid and willing to work."
Come in and directly reduce costs. Think about it, your salary is equivalent to two or three newcomers. If you lower the academic requirements and recruit some high school students, your salary will be equivalent to four or five of them. The key is that you
There are also benefits for buying a house, etc. If you apply for it, these benefits will be gone, otherwise you will lose another house. The houses in the talent apartments are so good now that everyone wants them."
The little girl said it seriously, and other colleagues next to her finally couldn't help it anymore and said with a smile, "Team leader Ren, don't listen to Xiao Liu's nonsense. It's not our company that wants to lay off employees, it's Lenovo."
“Lenovo wants to lay off employees?”
"Yes, the news came out early this morning. To be precise, it is not that Lenovo is going to lay off employees, but that their FM365 is going to lay off employees. And I heard that the layoffs are not small, and they plan to lay off 30% of them.
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Ren Hongfei was not so surprised to hear that FM365 was going to lay off employees.
FM365 is a portal website established by Lenovo to enter the Internet. In order to develop this portal website and establish a foothold in the Internet industry, Lenovo has taken great pains and exhausted all methods. It also tied the website to their new computer Millennium
, this is the website that users log in to first when they turn on their computer and want to surf the Internet.
Lenovo has a three-point and one-line Internet blueprint. In this blueprint, Fm365 serves as a horizontal portal, and all channels are made into vertical portals. They want to use one portal to solve all Internet problems.
In order to complete this blueprint, Lenovo chose to cooperate with AOL, because AOL provides users with a value-added content model through Internet access. Users will get an account in a monthly payment model, and use this account to obtain data from dedicated customers.
The client integrates all the services provided by America Online, including news, entertainment, education, finance, search, mail, chat rooms, etc.
Last year, Lenovo was preparing to cooperate with AOL, and in early June this year, the two parties jointly released a cooperation framework. Lenovo and AOL each invested US$100 million to establish a joint venture to jointly operate the FM365 website and expand the Internet together.
The intention is also very obvious, which is to compete with the Deep Space Company and seize the Chinese Internet market.
This matter attracted considerable attention from the outside world in June. Although Lenovo and AOL did not mention Deep Space Company in their announcements, everyone knew that they were here for Deep Space Company.
The grievances between Lenovo and Deep Space, and the grievances between AOL and Deep Space, are no secret. These two companies formed an Avengers Alliance, and the target was naturally Deep Space.
Many people want to watch the excitement and want to see if Lenovo and AOL can compete with Deep Space. Although AOL is a behemoth, in the Chinese market, AOL and Lenovo can still compete with Deep Space if they cooperate.
It's really difficult.
At that time, everyone believed that the Internet industry would definitely be in chaos again.
But what people didn't expect was that before the Deep Space Company took action, they had internal problems, and they were very fatal.
Because AOL had some problems when it acquired Time Warner, it was not stable internally, so it put forward very high demands in its cooperation with Lenovo. The license fees they demanded were so high that the joint venture would never be able to make money.
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In other words, AOL is trying to trick Lenovo. AOL has never thought about jointly fighting against Deep Space Corporation and seizing the Chinese Internet market. What they value is Lenovo itself.
In this cooperation, if it continues, Lenovo will have to work for AOL for the rest of its life and will have to pay for it. If it gives up the cooperation, Lenovo will not be able to get back the money it invested.
This matter was naturally done by Steven Case, the head of AOL, who led Lenovo step by step into the preset pit.
When Lenovo's Yang Yuanqing first found Steven Case, Case already had an idea. He wanted to take advantage of Lenovo's eagerness to deal with the Deep Space Company and take advantage of them.
Yang Yuanqing and others may think that Steven Case should be in the same trenches as them. After all, they all have grudges with Deep Space Company.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But what they don’t know is that Steven Case doesn’t feel that he has any unsolvable grudges with Deep Space Company at all. In his opinion,
, everything is just business behavior. If there is an opportunity, he is willing to cooperate with the Deep Space Company.
Besides, Lenovo and Deep Space were put together and let Steven Case choose. No matter how stupid he was, he would never choose Lenovo. Now that Deep Space is so popular, it is best not to offend them.
Anyway, after entering the big pit of AOL, FM365 collapsed directly. Although the website is still open, it is still in name only. The daily traffic of the website is horribly low.
Ren Hongfei checked the website some time ago. The website has not been optimized for several months. The news section on the homepage even shows the popular ones from three days ago. The most frightening thing is that their popular list is the same as the list of the Deep Space Network.
Exactly the same, it must have been copied directly from the Deep Space Network.
There's nothing you can do about it. The traffic on their website is so low. If they make any hot news, wouldn't it be nonsense?
Now Lenovo has no good way to continue to build the FM365 website. In this case, layoffs are inevitable. As for laying off 30%, it sounds terrible, but FM365 does not have many people, and the employee base is
It's small, and it can be cut to any proportion.
After chatting with the people at Deep Space Computer for a while, Ren Hongfei returned to the Game Division. There was nothing going on in the morning, so he turned on the computer to take a closer look at Lenovo's layoff news.
There was no need for him to search hard. Several websites in the deep space department had the news of Lenovo's layoffs posted on their homepages, which was a great reminder.
This can also be regarded as a kind of revenge for Lenovo's previous mischief.
There are also some independent media people who write news headlines that are particularly exaggerated.
[Lenovo Group broke out internal news and will lay off more than 30% of its employees.]
It stands to reason that the full version of this title should be "Lenovo Group has revealed internal news that its FM365 website will lay off 30% of its employees." These media people directly omitted the following subject.
Now this headline is very misleading, making people think that Lenovo Group is going to lay off 30% of its employees.
According to Deep Space Company's past style of dealing with such hot news, if the title is obviously misleading, they will limit the flow or simply delete the post and wait until it is revised before releasing it.
For some news, if it is false, Deep Space will also put a yellow label of "false news" to prevent netizens from being misled.
However, this time around Lenovo Group's news, Shen Kong did not put a yellow mark or delete the post. Instead, it added a black word "to be investigated" after the title, which means that it is uncertain whether the news is true or false, and it needs to be investigated.
Just known.
The key is that the word "to be investigated" is not particularly obvious, and many viewers will not care even if they see it.
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Within the Lenovo Group, Yang Yuanqing was furious, and his desk was being slapped all over the place.
"Isn't it said that the layoffs should be handled in a low-key manner? How come the news of the layoffs was leaked before anyone was laid off?"
The assistant standing opposite Yang Yuanqing said, "This matter is being investigated. It should have been leaked by internal personnel, otherwise we would not even know the proportion of layoffs. The problem we are facing now is that employees all know that layoffs are going to be made, and many people think it is the group.
The company is going to lay off 30% of its employees, and everyone is asking what the situation will be."
Yang Yuanqing frowned. He knew that not only ordinary employees, but also some middle-level leaders were concerned about this situation.
"Contact Deep Space Company and ask them to remove those false news."
"I have contacted you, but the other party said that they cannot confirm that it is false news, and they have marked the words "to be investigated" behind such news."
"What do you mean by not being sure that this is not false news? We, as the parties involved, have come forward to deny the news and we can't be sure? How can we be sure?"
"Deep Space said it was recommended that we make a public statement that there would be no layoffs."
Yang Yuanqing pursed his lips. The key point is that they are going to lay off employees. Could it be that it was a misunderstanding to issue a statement saying that we are only going to lay off FM365 employees and it has nothing to do with the group.
This statement seems to be able to break the rumors, but the key is that netizens will only focus on the word layoffs.
And if they want to make an announcement, they can only do so on the Deep Space Network, otherwise no one will be able to see it.
Thinking of this, Yang Yuanqing felt a helpless feeling in his heart. They Lenovo ambitiously wanted to enter the Internet, but in the end they ended up like this, and they still had to be manipulated by the Deep Space Company.
"Let's communicate with them again. It would be best if they can refute the rumors for us."
The assistant looked embarrassed, but gritted his teeth and said, "I'll try again."
Yang Yuanqing waved his hand, "Forget it, let me communicate."
He knew that the assistant's intervention would have no effect at all, and only if he stepped forward could he have some hope.
After the assistant left Yang Yuanqing's office, he called Yuliang. He wanted to call Yu Dong or Jimmy directly, but there was no contact information at all, and even if he had contact information, they would most likely ignore him.
The levels of the two parties are not equal and the relationship is not good.
The phone rang for a long time before the other party finally answered it.
"Who?" Yuliang's voice sounded on the other end of the phone.
Yang Yuanqing said with a smile, "Mr. Yu, it's me, Lenovo's Yang Yuanqing."
"Oh, Mr. Yang, I remember saving your number. Why is it still showing an unfamiliar number? You changed your phone number."
"I changed my cell phone to make the call." Yang Yuanqing explained with a smile, but in fact he used this cell phone every time to make the call, and it was obvious that his number was not saved at all.
"Let me just say, Mr. Yang, do you have any instructions for calling me?"
Faced with the threat of holding a gun and a stick, Yang Yuanqing quickly said, "I don't dare, I don't dare, I have something to trouble you with."
Yu Liang chuckled and said, "Is this the news about your company's layoffs?"
Yang Yuanqing was a little surprised when he heard that Yuliang was straight to the point, "Yes, I'm here just for this news. I know that Deep Space Network has always attached great importance to the authenticity of news, and this kind of false information should not appear on your company's website.
Do you think we can put a yellow mark on these news or delete them?"
"Mr. Yang, this is not okay. Our company does attach great importance to the authenticity of news, but there is currently no evidence to prove that these news are fake. Our website has also very seriously marked the label for investigation behind the news title. I believe
Netizens will make their own judgments. And you have also made websites yourself, so you also know that it is very difficult to judge whether this kind of news is true or false. For example, there has been a lot of news about our company on FM365 before. You
Isn’t it also impossible to distinguish between true and false?”
Yang Yuanqing's expression froze when he heard that Yuliang was settling old scores with him.
FM365 did have a lot of false news related to deep space before. Deep Space had also negotiated with them before, hoping that they could manage the news. The answer they gave here was basically exactly the same as what Yuanli said now.
After pondering for a moment, Yang Yuanqing said, "Mr. Yu, there are many friends and many paths. It is not a problem for both of us to keep doing this. In the end, both sides will lose, and the fishermen will benefit."
Yu Liang chuckled lightly and said, "Mr. Yang, this is not your attitude when asking for help. I'm also quite busy here. Otherwise, I'll hang up the phone first and let's talk again after you think it through."
Chapter completed!