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Chapter 255 The Internet Industry Bubble
"Boss, there is something else I want to tell you." Zhao Liyi's words interrupted Guo Yuan's thoughts.

"What's the matter?" Guo Yuan asked.

"It's like this. Ali had laid off a lot of employees before, and there were many people with good skills. I told you at the last meeting that I wanted to recruit these employees to the company. Now they have all been recruited. It's a list."

After speaking, Zhao Liyi handed a folder to Cheng Shuqing, and Cheng Shuqing brought the folder to Guo Yuan.

Guo Yuan took the folder and browsed through it.

There are 16 resumes in the folder. Every time Guo Yuan reads a resume, the narrator will comment on the people in the resume.

These 16 people are quite acceptable in terms of technical narration, but 3 people have some problems in terms of character.

Guo Yuan took the resumes of these three people and handed them to Wang Hui: "Old Wang, these three people can't do it. They found a reason to leave during the probation period."

Wang Hui nodded and put away his resume.

Now the company has nearly 1100 people. As the boss of the company, Guo Yuan has more and more rights. Not to mention firing three probationary people, they are full-time employees. Guo Yuan is not happy, Guo Yuan You can also fire him with one sentence, and the compensation for the salary is nothing at all.

This is the prerogative of the company owner and largest shareholder.

"By the way, Mr. Zhao, you have always been in the Internet business. Why do you think Ali has laid off employees on a large scale?" Guo Yuan asked, turning the subject.

Zhao Liyi sighed and said, "Boss, it's not just Ali, all major Internet companies at home and abroad are laying off employees except for the iPhone."

"Huh? Really? How do I remember that Internet companies at home and abroad have been recruiting like crazy in the past two years?" Guo Yuan asked with a puzzled expression.

Guo Yuan said this because when he had just acquired Future Technology from Wu Tianyu, he asked 01 to help investigate the situation of the Internet company's employees in the past three years.

According to the data collected in 01, from 2019 to 2022, the number of active employees of well-known domestic and foreign Internet companies has actually been rising.

From 2019 to 2022, these enterprises have expanded their enrollment a lot.

Abroad, like Facebook, there are only more than 2019 employees in 4, and by 2022, there will be 8.6 employees, directly doubling.

Amazon has 2019 people in 7.98, and then there will be 2022 by 15, which is almost doubled.

谷歌在2019年有11万员工，到了2022年就有19万人了增加了7，80%。

Microsoft is similar, from 2019 in 13 to 2022 in 22.

The iPhone has increased from 13 to 16. However, Guo Yuan remembers that 01 said at the time that the iPhone was relatively stable, and both recruitment and layoffs maintained a relatively stable ratio.

Just now Zhao Liyi said that iPhone Internet companies are laying off employees on a large scale, probably because of this.

Guo Yuan’s thinking is correct. Except for the iPhone, which has not yet started large-scale layoffs, other large foreign Internet companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have all experienced such large-scale layoffs.

The large Internet companies on Huaxia's side are not bad.

China's Internet companies have grown similarly to foreign companies, and several of them have grown relatively rapidly in the past three years.

Penguin has more than 2019 people in 6, and it will increase to 2022 in 10.8.

Ali's 2019 in 11.6 and 22 in 23.9 years have doubled.

Due to some of the company's own circumstances, Baidu did not grow much, and the growth rate of Meituan was also close to [-]% to [-]%.

And these companies also have a large number of layoffs.

Generally speaking, the number of employees of Internet companies at home and abroad has experienced a substantial increase in the three-year cycle.

Zhao Liyi, who has been devoting himself to the Internet industry for a long time, naturally knows these things. He sighed and said, "Boss, this year's layoffs are not easy!"

"why?"

"Let's put it this way! Boss, from my personal point of view, the crazy expansion of the company in the past few years is actually related to the misjudgment of the company's strategic decision-making, and this misjudgment is a systematic misjudgment. businesses, but all businesses.”

"Wrong judgment? Why did this happen?" Guo Yuan asked.

"Because in the past 3 years, everyone's time at home has been greatly extended. In the past, the average ratio of Chinese people's time at home to work was almost 2:3.

That is to say, 24 hours a day, Chinese people spend an average of 9.6 hours at home, and the rest of the time is at work.

In foreign developed countries, this ratio can generally reach 3:2 or even 4:2.

But in the past few years, for some reason, the time everyone spent at home was greatly extended.

The ratio of Chinese people at home has reached 5 to 5, and many people have even reached 3 to 2 in developed countries.

Staying at home for a long time will increase the use of various Internet services.

The business scope of major Internet companies has also expanded, and these Internet companies have consciously or unconsciously regarded this expansion as a normal state.

They believe that the total value of the Internet industry will take advantage of this opportunity to reach a new high, and the GDP of the entire industry, whether it is the total amount or a single volume, will be improved.

And this is obviously wrong. To put it bluntly, this kind of increase is unhealthy, and it is an illusion caused by specific things.

But the major Internet companies feel that this will be a norm. "

After listening to Zhao Liyi's words, Wang Hui asked, "So Mr. Zhao, your mistakes have been corrected now?"

"Yes, the growth obtained due to mistakes has also been returned to its original shape. At this time, these Internet companies do not need so many employees, so what can we do?"

"We can only lay off staff!" Guo Yuan exclaimed.

"Yes, this is the main reason for the layoffs. To put it bluntly, the bubble in the Internet industry has been burst.

This situation is somewhat similar to the situation in which the economic bubbles of the island countries were burst in the 8s and 90s.

Of course, this is only the main reason. In addition, there is another reason that the development of the domestic Internet industry has fallen into a bottleneck. "

"Is there a bottleneck? Is there any? Brother Zhao, why do I feel that the domestic Internet industry is still expanding!" Xun Haoran asked with a puzzled look on the side.

"The pie of the Internet industry is indeed still expanding, but there are more companies sharing the pie.

Take the e-commerce platform as an example. Before 2011, there was only one domestic e-commerce platform, Taobao, enjoying the cake of e-commerce. Later, JD.com appeared, and the two companies began to share the cake. Now there is another Pinduoduo, and the three companies started Grab this cake.

This is not a messy vertical e-commerce. In short, the pie of e-commerce is expanding, but because there are too many companies sharing the cake, fewer and fewer companies are actually sharing it.

This is also the case with other domestic Internet companies. In addition, there is another point, that is, domestic Internet companies do not know how to innovate. "

(End of this chapter)