The banquet ends at two o'clock in the afternoon.

After drinking a little too much, Zhou Buqi wanted to take a shower and then take a nap. However, the young and beautiful female secretary offered herself a pillow and looked like I felt pity for him.

There was no other way. Boss Zhou could only take care of the emotions of his subordinates and reluctantly accepted it.

After working for an hour, I went to bed at three o'clock.

At four o'clock, a phone call woke him up.

"He Yang, is there something wrong?"

"Good news, the penguin relented."

"oh?"

Zhou Buqi was still drowsy, but after hearing these words, his sleepiness immediately disappeared and he became much more awake.

He Yang said: "They paid back a price of 240 million."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "I told you not to lower the price. For such a big company, it's not tiring to worry about this little money! This is a major matter involving the company's strategy, and they are still working on it. The structure is too bad.

.”

He Yang smiled and said: "They just called and said that the offer of 300 million is not unacceptable, but they put forward a condition."

"What conditions?"

"They require 100 technical talents with experience related to open platforms. We can't come up with 100, but 70 are still OK."

"What?" Zhou Buqi was startled for a moment, then laughed, "Is there such a good thing?"

He Yang couldn't help but laugh, "Yeah, I didn't expect that either!"

In the layoff plan, Friends.com should ideally lay off 150 people. If the impact of laying off so many people at once is not good, 100 people can be laid off first.

But the current situation is that Alibaba needs 50 people, Sina needs 20 people, Sohu has 10 people, and Baidu doesn’t want any. This leaves 70 people left, which is difficult to deal with.

Zhou Buqi sat up and said with deep emotion: "It seems that I have misunderstood them. Brother Xiao Ma's pattern is no worse than that of Lao Ma! Sure enough, he has pursuit! What is most important in the 21st century? Talent is the most important. It seems that Penguin

I feel this deeply, and it really shows the courage of a big company!"

He Yang said: "This is their only way, the little trick didn't work."

"oh?"

"Don't you know? Didn't you read the email I sent you?"

"I didn't have time. I drank wine with Lao Ma all day long and went to bed after returning to the guest room. I didn't have time to check emails. Tell me, what happened?"

He Yang's tone was a little cold and a little arrogant, "The transaction on the open platform did not go well this time. People are stumbling behind it!"

Zhou Buqi blinked, "What do you mean?"

He Yang said: "In the past few days, several groups of headhunters have contacted Zhang Yiming, Tang Binchen and Liang Rubo. Their chief human resources officers have all come over."

Zhou Buqi's face darkened, "What are you doing? Poaching my corner?"

"There are quite a lot of people poached. Zhang Yiming told me that they want to poach all the core team members of the open platform. There are twenty or thirty people there, and the salary of the one with the highest salary has increased twenty times."

"Twenty times? Who?"

"Tang Binchen."

Zhou Buqi was angry and funny, "This is really looking down on people. Ziweixing is about to start financing. Tang Binchen holds 5 million share options. How can he dig it? Can he afford it?"

He Yang said with a smile: "Zhang Yiming had a frank talk with their people and said that sharing is the soul of Ziweixing. He is willing to share advanced technology with peers, and is even willing to provide some technical talents with strong technical ability to help."

"Okay, let's send the remaining 70 people there. Well, how is the personnel department handling it?"

"The cost of layoffs has been reduced."

"What's the meaning?"

"If you go as you said and buy back their options at the Series A financing price, the cost of layoffs will be more than 50 million. Wang Haoyang disagrees, saying that their contribution is not that big and the company is extremely benevolent to them and will give them a maximum of 10 million in severance pay.

.”

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth, "Isn't this bad?"

He Yang said: "None of their options have been exercised, so there's nothing wrong with it. Don't worry, this matter has been discussed. Once we lay off employees, they won't be able to find such a high-paying job again. Now the company will arrange the next job for them."

Who wouldn’t be happy if the job, salary and benefits remain the same, and you can also receive a severance package?”

Zhou Buqi pondered for a long time and said slowly: "If nothing happens, Round A may be over soon."

"ah?"

"I will meet Masayoshi Son tomorrow. His enthusiasm is much higher than that of Goldman Sachs and Sequoia Capital."

"What a good thing!"

He Yang was very happy.

At this time, the Fourth Secretary Wang Yaojin had woken up on the bed and hugged Zhou Buqi from behind.

If the person behind him was Wen Zhixia or Shi Jinglin, then Zhou Buqi would definitely lean back and feel at ease.

But Zhou Buqi, who didn't know this little secretary well, didn't want to be so intimate with her. He turned around and took a pillow, threw it at his feet, gave her a look and asked her to kneel over.

Zhou Buqi didn't let himself go. He thought for a while and then said seriously: "The A round is about to be completed, but I buy them back at a lower price. Even if they don't say it, they are still complaining in their hearts. I think we should follow the rules."

Let’s go. Just because the company is not listed and lacks supervision, we can’t be unscrupulous. This is not a matter of money, but a matter of principle.”

He Yang was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect this big boss to be so stunned and unbelievable, "Isn't it right?"

Zhou Buqi said: "The severance package has changed from 50 million to 10 million, which is nothing more than a saving of 40 million. But I think we should spend this money, and it is well spent!"

"Um?"

"This is Ziweixing's first large-scale layoff. All employees in the company are watching. Our colleagues are also watching. We must do it beautifully and make everyone speechless. Not only must we help them

Find your next job and give them the money that belongs to them in full!"

He Yang was slightly silent.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Lao He, you can change your mind and don't regard the layoffs as layoffs. Just think that we spent 50 million and sent out 150 employees and asked them to go to major companies to respond.

!”

"Commercial espionage?"

"What kind of spies? There are just a few broken companies in the country, and I still need to send spies to monitor them? It requires technology, but it requires strategy... I have a good reputation, so it's not worth mentioning."

"Then this is... helping us promote?"

"That's right, it's just publicity." Zhou Buqi paused, coughed twice, as if he was trying to hide something, and then slowly said: "Whether it's Taobao, Penguin, Sina, or Sohu, the open platform project will definitely

It will be their key project. These 150 employees will become their core employees. Think about the consequences?"

He Yang blinked a few times.

Suddenly I felt that Boss Zhou was really a loser!

It harms others but does not benefit oneself!

The average salary of these people is 26,000, but their actual ability is more than 10,000.

Fortunately for a short period of time, they went to the other company to participate in the open platform project. Because there was a lack of relevant talents in the country, they received training from Ziweixing, and they were among the first wave of people in the industry to reap the benefits.

But as time goes by, new people come to take over, and the situation of this group will not be too good.

No company will hire high-paid people with low abilities and poor learning ability.

A salary cut is impossible.

Even if the employees accept it, the company will not accept it and can only lay off employees.

When the time comes, how will companies like Alibaba, Penguin, and Sina deal with these people when they lay off employees? Will they be as fair and generous as Ziweixing when they lay off employees?

Even if he grits his teeth and bleeds profusely, Ding Kemao can make enough compensation for dismissal, but can he still work?

When Ziweixing laid off employees, it helped them find their next employer and job!

I am afraid of comparison in everything.

What’s even more frightening is that even if this group of people is laid off, they will still become a hot group of people in the industry. They have participated in the entrepreneurship of Friends.com, the Taobao open platform, the QQ open platform... and have made so many big projects.

Projects and resumes are very glamorous, which will make some companies who don’t know the inside story rush to grab them.

By then, Ziweixing's reputation in the industry will follow them in the industry.

What the headhunter said was half-truth and half-false, and it was hard to believe it.

But the words of seniors in the industry are very convincing. When Ziweixing releases these people, it is equivalent to releasing a publicity team.

"It's not worth spending more than 40 million for this little thing." He Yang sighed, still thinking that real money would be better.

Zhou Buqi said: "The Internet has memory. Many traditional companies did some immoral things in the past, but may have forgotten them after a few years. The Internet is different, especially the Internet giants, who are put in the spotlight and looked at with a magnifying glass.

Don’t forget, we have Weizhi and Toutiao. Every once in a while, we will post a similar hot post to publicize this matter. Having a good reputation will make it more attractive.”

In the same computer business, if Xiaomi hires a project team from Lenovo, it will pay two or three times the salary. If Huawei hires a core team from Lenovo, it will pay double the premium.

A good reputation is competitiveness.
To be continued...