Article | hunting cloud network (ilieyun) Dong Lu
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On October 17, Lianyun.com (wechat: Ilieyun once reported the “Failed acquisition of 91 by Baidu” under the title of “Baidu intends to close fuzhou R&D Center, and the acquisition of 91 with us $1.9 billion will never happen again”. Later, employees at its Fuzhou RESEARCH and development center (hereinafter referred to as “Fuyan”) disclosed the decision to Ilieyun. After reports and, in recent days the development cloud network with several hunting party employees in more than four hours of interviews, also received about 16 day details and the latest progress of layoffs, several employees emotional ups and downs is bigger, once repeatedly questioned whether it reasonable, fair, legal, and the properties of bad lure, fraud, fraud, etc. This disclosure includes that all the dismissations were handled by Beijing, local executives of Fuyan were not spared, they did not report to Fuzhou Labor Bureau on the grounds of moving, and they let employees sign agreements and leave within five minutes without any advance notice… And the current employee rights are continuing.
Event review: On the evening of 16th, we media broke the news. One hour later, Baidu officially responded to lianyun.com. Lianyun.com got the voice of its employees at the first time.
On the evening of October 16, We media reported that Baidu had withdrawn its fuzhou R&D center, which means it will end 91 Assistant, which it acquired in 2013 for $1.9 billion. Later, Liyun.com (wechat: Ilieyun) confirmed the news from an internal employee of the R&d center in Fuzhou.
According to the employee’s description, all departments of fuyun Research Center have been interviewed on October 16, all staff of business department have been dismissed on the same day, and the remaining functional departments such as legal affairs, administration, finance and HR will finish their work on October 27. An hour later, Baidu official response, said is the migration is not cut. According to the statement, due to the company’s business planning and operation needs, related businesses will be relocated to Beijing in succession, and all employees involved in the adjustment will be provided with equivalent positions in Beijing.
Progress of the incident: Most of the employees of Fuyan have been completely suspended, and all the people handling the cancellation are from Beijing, with a firm attitude and quick handling. Baidu has no announcement except that it insists on “moving”.
At present, Baidu official in addition to the 16 evening emergency response, did not have any voice. And up to now, most of the staff of fuyan Center have been suspended, still have not received any form of announcements and emails. Baidu’s public relations account “This Year’s Baidu PUBLIC Relations” posted a message on The 19th asking “why moving a house can be interpreted as divorce”, blaming rivals who did not buy 91, media who love to make an issue of Baidu’s investment, and people who love gossip and forced to play.
As IlieYun learned more about the layoffs, more details emerged: on the morning of 16th, employees were sent from Beijing to have a one-on-one interview with hr by dozens of directly subordinate department supervisors. The employee asked angrily, “I don’t even have time to pick up my things. The whole interview lasted less than five minutes, and we were in a hurry to let everyone go. What happened to the human touch of big companies?” First sign the “consultation change labor Contract notice” (hereinafter referred to as the change agreement), then sign the “consultation termination of labor contract/labor relations Agreement” (hereinafter referred to as the termination agreement). Even if they quit after signing the contract, except for a small number of employees who are still handling the handover and closing work until 27th, other employees work until 16th, and their salaries are settled thus far. “And on the day of the interview, many employees who have not been interviewed have been forced to leave the company Intranet, which is very bad and rare.” That is to say, Baidu has unilaterally decided the result of the negotiation.
Compared with the layoffs of more than 30 employees in August this year, and other adjustments to a large number of employees following baidu’s business split, merger and resale, this time, Fuyan made more internal adjustments, but completely closed the R&d center in Fuzhou, affecting more than 200 people. As for the changes/rescissions of labor contracts involving more than 200 people, the leaders were directly interviewed without any formal emails, and all of them were completed within one day, and almost all written agreements were signed on 18th. In a sign of how efficient the Internet giants are, many employees are even lured into signing agreements before they know it.
Event extension: the so-called “translation” only part of the staff optional, and together with the salary “translation”, to “move” in the name of large-scale layoffs escaped the labor Bureau record process.
As for the cancellation, the compensation will be given N+1 to ordinary employees, N+6 to pregnant women, and double annual leave discount, which will be paid together with salary, according to the relevant provisions of the national normal termination of labor contract. There was no mention of year-end bonuses or stock option instalments. When asked about the negotiation process and whether there was a special legal adviser present, employees said baidu only said “it is not good for you if you do not sign” and “the lawyer is downstairs, you can ask questions”.
According to the description, the change agreement states that due to the company’s business planning and operation needs, the relevant business of Baidu Fuzhou R&D center will be moved to Beijing. In view of this objective situation, the company hereby negotiates with you to change the labor contract according to law, that is, to change the work place to Beijing, and your job position (content), level and salary will remain unchanged. And written feedback within 1 day, if not, it will be regarded as a disagreement.
In other words, Baidu’s official response to the alleged “equivalent position in Beijing for the employees involved”, the treatment (salary) is also completely unchanged. According to the report, the average salary of white-collar workers in Beijing was 9,791 yuan in 2017, while that in Fuzhou, which ranked 18th, was 6,785 yuan, a gap of more than 3,000 yuan. It is worth mentioning that even if the “translation” power, not everyone has, for example, some employees did not see the “change agreement”, directly signed the “termination agreement”. Employees blunt “Fuzhou this salary to Beijing to drink northwest wind? There was no consideration of feasibility.
In addition, according to “labor contract law” regulation, need to lay off staff more than 20 people or cut less than twenty men but accounted for more than ten percent of the total number of enterprise employees, unit of choose and employ persons to the trade union or staff 30 days in advance, after listen to the views of trade unions or workers, the workers plan by the report to the administrative department for labor, can be cutting staff.
According to the employees, more than 200 employees of Fuyan have terminated their labor contracts this time, but only less than 10 of them have accepted the “translation” to Beijing, and none of the senior executives have been spared. Such a surprise attack and the same day let most employees directly end the work of the behavior, is probably the baidu official insisted that “move is not layoffs”, because the move does not need to go to the labor bureau for the record. This is also one of the current employees feel disappointed and angry, “clearly illegal layoffs, but also insisted on moving.” And on the complete withdrawal from Fuzhou, Baidu headquarters legal internal explanation “has been and the local government related departments to make a call.”
Event wait and see: the lease of the office building rented for him in Fuzhou Software Park will expire at the end of the year (there are also explanations of February next year), and the employees have spontaneously organized a rights protection group because of their dissatisfaction with his attitude and treatment.
In 2014, Baidu rented a new office building in Fuzhou Software Park for the 91 Assistant team, which employed more than 1,000 people in the peak period. After that, the lease on the luxury office building expires at the end of the year (some say next February), and it is unclear what will happen after that.
About the process of the cancellation event, such as the same day notice the same day leave; It is layoffs but external said to move; “Threatening and deceptive” signing; Inequality “shifting”; Even several colleagues who are “in confinement” are called back to sign the agreement and so on, which also makes employees very angry and chill. At present, after more than three days of time, gradually react to the staff generally think that the agreement was signed before routine. A “rights protection group” has been spontaneously organized, arguing that Baidu has violated relevant laws without consultation, without discussion by the labor union and against the true wishes of employees, and requiring them to make reasonable and legal explanations and renegotiate compensation.
In addition, hunting cloud network (ilieyun) in 17 report for this has been called “China’s Internet history the biggest merger” made a retrospective analysis, and combined the relevant reports and network side such as internal whistleblowing zhihu, affectionately, “baidu stock rally after $1.9 billion took over 91 associates, the value of the equivalent of 2.5 91, In the next year, after the market share exceeded 360 and became the first in the industry, it turned down from the honeymoon period, gradually cannibalized its users and put its advertisements under its own name. It had to access the new background of Baidu, control the sales team that had been independently operated, and even sold the apple business of 91 assistant to Xizang Zhidu. Baidu Mobile Games, which merged with 91 Wireless Games, was sold for 1.2 billion yuan. And other relevant comb.
And the related report also saw a comment, but also confirmed the years of love and hate, let people sigh.
“In 2011, 91 earned 3 million yuan, in 2012 600 million yuan and in 2013 2 billion yuan. Baidu took over in the second half of 2014 and did 2 billion. What did Baidu do? One, wash away 91 users; Two, 91 games and how cool; Three, more than a billion cash in the account to move to how cool; Four, get rid of key personnel; Five, business channel sales all rushed to the field forced to leave. 91 has always been alive, from assistant to game distribution to desktop reading video weather… Pre-installed machines and even smart TV pre-installed, more than a dozen projects will be launched every year from 2011 to 2015. In addition to navigation not to do, mobile phone products are basically involved. 15 years Baidu has 91 market disabled, the market was empty. “91 had pricing power back then. Now the mobile industry is basically playing what 91 did.”
At present, the rights protection group of Fuyan people will officially protect their rights next Monday. Please follow the follow-up report of Ilieyun on specific progress and developments after the departure of all staff on 27th.
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