Author: Wilderness Elegy

After talking to Lei Jun in the coffee shop, Zhou Buqi walked to Ziweixing's headquarters campus.

It's really cold today.

Fortunately, it's almost noon, and the haze has dispersed. From a very far distance, you can see the hustle and bustle in the park, including a fleet of food delivery vehicles, a large delivery truck, and a few workers and masters over there.

Moving decoration materials, I don’t know which area needs to be renovated...

Zhou Buqi was on the phone with Zhou Shaoning and told him about Lei Jun. He planned to transfer Motorola's smartphone R&D center in Shanghai to Xiaomi.

Asda has been developing in the field of smartphones for so many years, and there is no need for this R&D team.

Moreover, this is only Motorola's second R&D center.

The R&D department in Silicon Valley is the core R&D team.

Since it is useful to Xiaomi, let Lei Jun take it.

Zhou Shaoning didn't have any objections, "Okay, if you like it, take it. The fixed price is 50 million."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Xiaomi has just started its business, where can I get money for you?"

Zhou Shaoning said: "Then we owe it now and pay it back in a few years?"

"Okay, you can contact Lei Jun later." Zhou Buqi found it interesting, "He thinks a bit complicated, I'm afraid you won't be willing."

"Well, it's normal." Zhou Shaoning sighed with emotion, "In the past, I might not have been willing to help. I would rather die in my own hands than maximize the use of resources to others. Things are different now.

, the vision has changed.”

Zhou Buqi said: "Actually, that's it. Asda's market is the whole world. The better the domestic mobile phone industry develops, the more it will promote Asda's overseas competition. The domestic mobile phone industry is in a mess, and Asda

It’s also impossible to have any big development overseas.”

Zhou Shaoning said: "Motorola has a total of 6 mobile phone R&D institutions in China, with more than 800 R&D staff. In fact, we can't use any of them. Five of them are designed and developed for feature phones. Put them in Asda's hands.

If you leave it alone, it will be a waste. I plan to reorganize it appropriately and select a group of elite engineers to stay. The remaining departments and teams... will be sold half and given away, and whoever likes it can take it."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, that's okay. Now is the entrepreneurial era of smartphones. Aren't there several copycat phone manufacturers that have to transform and return to the development of smartphones? These R&D personnel of Motorola, then

No matter how low-end it is, it's still better than the technical engineers from copycat phone manufacturers."

"What?"

Zhou Shaoning is a little funny.

Zhou Buqi asked: "What's going on?"

Zhou Shaoning said: "This is Motorola's technical team. Who wouldn't want it? The market for feature phones is not over yet. In the current mobile phone market, the main focus is on selling feature phones. Motorola's own functional phone R&D institutions

, are all valuable!”

Zhou Buqi was slightly startled, "Can you still sell it for money?"

Zhou Shaoning said: "It's definitely possible. Even the four giants of the 'China Cool Alliance' want it. However, what I mean is mainly to build a good relationship with traditional domestic mobile phone manufacturers through donations from these development teams.

Didn't you say, try not to cause friction with others, and make friends with everyone if you can."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Okay, this idea works, but we can't use it, so we can leave it to our domestic counterparts to help them make progress. This is what a world-class company should do."

Zhou Shaoning said: "Well, there is no need to lay off employees. If we package and sell them, we might be able to make some money. Kill two birds with one stone."

Zhou Buqi said speechlessly: "What you said is inappropriate, you should follow my words."

Zhou Shaoning laughed, and then said solemnly: "But to be honest, it would be the best result for Asda to acquire Motorola's mobile phone business. If Google doesn't sell it, it will be really troublesome."

“What happened to Google?”

"Google also has no demand for feature phones. When the time comes, it will definitely have to cut off all feature phone business lines. It will be a global mass layoff."

"Well, it's true."

Zhou Buqi nodded, thinking that was the truth.

Neither Google nor Asda will be involved in the feature phone business. However, in the current market, the sales of feature phones are still dominated, and smartphone sales account for less than 30%.

You can still make a lot of money by making a feature phone.

This is also the reason why all Japanese mobile phone manufacturers fell in the smartphone era. Because their strategies were conservative, it was 2012, and feature phones still dominated the market, so their transformation was very slow.

It would be a disaster if Motorola's mobile phone business was owned by Google. If Google did not make feature phones, there would be only one result, and that would be large-scale layoffs, including the entire department.

Motorola's feature phone business is almost all done in China, from design, research and development, financing, supply chain, OEM, warehousing and transportation, etc., it is all done in China.

Once done in the country, it will be shipped to the world.

Once Google actually lays off employees, thousands of people in the country will lose their jobs.

Google itself would also suffer huge losses.

It can be called a "lose-lose" situation.

If Asda takes over, it will be different. Although Asda does not make feature phones, Asda is different from Google, which has completely withdrawn from the domestic market. Asda has a wide network of contacts and good reputation in the country.

Industry circles.

There are at least two dozen domestic feature phone manufacturers, including those that produce knock-off feature phones, and the competition is fierce. To them, Motorola’s feature phone business team is the “master”, “master” and “industry expert”.

Elite".

In this way, the relationship between supply and demand in the market is established.

Asda can help.

How heroic is this?

Asda spent nearly 5 billion US dollars to acquire Motorola at a sky-high price, then split up Motorola's various parts and sold them to domestic mobile phone peers in need at very low prices to promote the progress and common development of the domestic mobile phone industry...

In this way, Asda's core position and leadership position in the domestic mobile phone industry has been established. It is natural for Asda to become the largest mobile phone manufacturer in terms of shipments in China, and it will be recognized by peers.

After Asda acquired Motorola's mobile phone business, the next group reorganization was the most complicated.

The idea proposed by Zhou Shaoning is quite good.

Half sold and half given away to domestic counterparts.

Asda can not only avoid layoffs and pay huge compensation, but also gain a good reputation and reputation in the industry. In the process of corporate restructuring, layoffs are the most complex and difficult part.

Therefore, there is often a kind of "super HR" in the market.

These people are cruel people.

The level is extremely high and the salary is also extremely high.

For example, a company is about to lay off employees, but layoffs are too offending. For the HR staff in the human resources department, they are all old colleagues and old friends over the past many years. Let them fire these former colleagues collectively.

It's simply mental torture, and it's hard to live with emotionally.

At this time, you can hire a "super HR" from the market with a high salary.

Their salary is extremely high, possibly higher than that of the general manager, and annual salaries of several million are common.

After joining the company, there is only one task - layoffs.

There are endless tricks, tricks, and tricks... all in order to fire employees at the minimum cost.

For example, you want to fire a 10-year-old employee.

There must be legal layoffs.

In accordance with legal requirements, N+3 salary compensation will be paid.

After the layoff, a week later, HR called the old employee again and told him: "Oh, we made the wrong layoff. The company really can't survive without old employees like you. You'd better come back! Don't worry, after you come back,

, I’ll double your salary!”

The old employees were very proud and returned to their jobs.

However, since he was re-employed, he had to return the "N+3" compensation previously paid to the company. The old employee returned the compensation to the company and worked happily for a month.

The next month, HR talked to him and fired him again!

At this time, the situation completely changed.

His "service experience" is only one month, and he has not even passed the probation period, so he does not need to pay "N+3" compensation... This series of back-and-forth operations is actually a trap set for old employees, thus

Refusal to pay "N+3" dismissal compensation.

Normal colleague relationships and ordinary HR simply cannot play with such outrageous things.

It is the magic weapon for some "super HR" to make a lot of money.

Therefore, when many companies need to lay off employees on a large scale, if they are unwilling to pay sky-high compensation, they will hire this kind of "super HR" to take charge of the overall situation.

You can be ruthless and kill decisively without regard for human feelings. No matter who it is, you can cut it off!

It is also possible to reduce layoff expenses to a minimum.

The end of the layoffs and the firing of the "super HR" calmed the anger and panic of employees in the company. The company can become happy, harmonious and united again.

Zhou Buqi knew this kind of operation in his previous life, and many people around him were using it. In this life, he didn't want any company in the "Ziwei Galaxy" to have such an operation.

So wicked!
To be continued...