Abstract:
On November 12, in response to the news circulating on the Internet that "Tencent will lay off 50% of its employees", Zhang Jun, Tencent's public relations director, posted on Weibo to refute the rumor, calling it "pure misunderstandings and rumors."
Zhang Jun recalled that during Tencent's 28th anniversary Linktime online live broadcast, the management expressed its determination to accelerate organizational change, and specifically explained that this is different from the "cost reduction and efficiency improvement" a few years ago - the previous time was relatively passive and more "cost reduction", this time it is a proactive attack in the AI era, more "efficiency improvement", encouraging front-line colleagues to actively raise their hands to move forward, and middle management needs to become flatter and more flexible.
He explained that in order to cope with the new changes, it was proposed internally that "50% of the people should stay local and responsible like the army, and improve the existing core business by improving efficiency; the other 50% should embrace the wave like the navy, explore AI Native, and expand new development space." This is a reallocation of the company's resources to adapt to the AI era, and "the metaphor is even greater." The so-called "50% layoff" statement is completely untrue.
Some netizens in the comment area made fun of "50% layoffs" and compared Ma Huateng to "Thanos". In response, Zhang Jun responded, "Based on a rumor."
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