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Layoffs are a dangerous thing, even if they give enough compensation and don't make trouble, it will also create an atmosphere of panic. Especially this group of people are old employees, which will make people feel like a dead dog.

This time, 100-150 people will be laid off. Such a large-scale layoff will have a greater impact. Fast-growing companies will only encounter the dilemma of insufficient manpower, rather than large-scale layoffs.

Layoffs are often a sign of business shrinkage and stagnant development.

This will cause misunderstanding to the outside world.

Has the development of Ziwei Star encountered a bottleneck? Is it necessary to shrink the business and stop expanding? Is it a financial crisis, unable to pay wages?

No matter which one, it will have a huge impact on investors, which in turn will affect financing.

Therefore, the human resources department is very cautious about this, and has come up with multiple plans and discussed them repeatedly in order to minimize the adverse effects.

But three or four plans were made in a row, but they were all rejected.

Zhou Buqi's proposal perfectly solved this problem!

No more layoffs!

In the form of poverty alleviation supported by technology, these outstanding engineers are sent to colleagues to help them develop in-depth in the field of open platforms and promote the overall progress of the domestic Internet.

It's only 2007, and the open platform is still a very trendy concept.

The one with the most relevant experience is of course Ziweixing.

Zhou Buqi was awe-inspiring and said that he would take relevant responsibilities.

Moreover, there is a deeper consideration behind this.

Among the 100-150 employees, none of them are members of Friends.com’s open platform project, so it’s absolutely impossible for them to get started directly. So there is a reason for Ziweixing to train internally for two months.

Two months of training, plus they have to carry out further technical processing after they go to the new company... The open platform of colleagues may not be launched until September.

This window period is the time when Friends.com's open platform monopolizes and seizes the market.

Zhou Buqi sat alone in the office, thinking quietly for half an hour.

I think this wave operation is very good.

Solved seven or eight problems in a row.

Solved the open source crisis of Google and Facebook’s open platforms, made a lot of money by selling products, greatly increased the company’s valuation in the A round of Ziweixing, solved the problem of layoffs, solved the desire of friends and businessmen for related technologies, and promoted the development of the domestic Internet. Development, reserved a certain monopoly development time for Friends.com open platform.

Well, there is one more.

Solved the favor problem of Boss Ma!

Zhou Buqi called Boss Ma and said with a smile, "Old Ma, I have good news for you."

"What good news?"

"I want to break the contract."

"What?"

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "I decided to tear up the contract we signed on the open platform."

Boss Ma couldn't believe it, "Xiao Zhou, don't joke with me. I haven't cut the price of 100 million yuan from you. Are you still not satisfied?"

Zhou Buqi said: "I'm not talking about a sales contract, but a non-compete contract."

The cooperation with Ali has been successfully reached.

Two contracts were signed, one was to sell project products for 100 million yuan, and the other was to prohibit Ali from poaching the technical support employees provided by Friends.com within 10 years.

Boss Ma didn't take it seriously, "What good news is this? I didn't intend to poach people secretly. You helped me build a platform, and I went to poach your corner behind your back. What's the matter?"

"Huh? Even if I send someone to help you build an open Taobao platform, who will do the follow-up operation, expansion and maintenance work? Shouldn't you do it yourself?"

"This is also impossible."

"It's going to be a real pain in the ass if you're going to study the underlying code from scratch."

"Huh?" Boss Ma was a little surprised, "Why did I hear that there was something in your words?"

Zhou Buqi said sternly: "That's right. I've been thinking about it for the past few days, and you're right. We sell products, how can we do without after-sales service? That's not how business works. Moreover, after-sales work cannot be perfunctory, we must show our Ziwei Xing's sincerity and grandeur! I plan to do it in one step!"

Boss Ma was taken aback, "What do you mean?"

Zhou Buqi said: "I know that there are not many excellent engineers on your side, and you have no relevant experience in open platforms. I plan to send out a technical team of 50 people and give it to you for free! Help you build the platform and help you do it. Follow-up operations, change the employment contract, let them become your employees of Ali. Help you solve this problem once and for all!"

Boss Ma was stunned and didn't say a word in a daze.

I can't believe it at all.

There is such a good thing?

This is no different from sending money! Even recruitment costs are saved!

More importantly, this is a mature team that has worked together at Ziweixing before, and there is no need to adjust to work together, just get started directly.

Even trial costs are saved.

"Old horse? Old horse?"

"Oh, you said."

"What do you think, if you disagree..."

Boss Ma interrupted him, "Are you really going to give someone?"

Zhou Buqi said awe-inspiringly: "Of course, if a gentleman says a word, it's hard to catch up with four horses!"

Boss Ma asked: "How about your technical ability?"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "The average age is 29 years old, and the average monthly salary is 28K. What do you think about the technical level?"

Money is the best measure.

With a salary of nearly 30,000 a month, what kind of high-tech team is this?

Boss Ma was very excited and couldn't believe it, "Xiao Zhou, you really want to do this? I know Ziweixing has a high level of technology, but so many senior engineers...is this appropriate?"

Zhou Buqi explained with a smile: "You have also seen the development situation of Friends.com. Except for the two new businesses of Taobao channel and open platform that need to be focused on, other businesses are very mature. At the end of June, Ziweixing will be able to enter 400 fresh graduates. College students. Mature businesses don’t need high-level technicians, and new college students are enough.”

After saying this, Boss Ma understood, "Oh, they are engineers drawn from mature businesses."

"right."

"Then do they understand the related technologies of the open platform?"

"No contact yet."

"Then what to do?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "What can we do? Training! The open platform is developed by ourselves, with a total of 200,000 lines of code. I asked the technical director to lead a staff to hold a Ziwei technology lecture hall, and we will discuss this project from beginning to end. Explain it again. They are high-level engineers themselves, and after two months of training, aren’t they proficient in open platforms?”

Boss Ma's eyes lit up, and he was pleasantly surprised, "You want to do training? Do you want to give technical lectures on an open platform?"

Zhou Buqi sighed, "Oh, I told you before. I'm not interested in money, and I'm not interested in being unique. What I hope most is the common development and progress of all Internet companies in China. This sale For the open platform project, we have contacted many peers, including Sohu and Sina, and their technology is not too high, so they have no confidence in building this project, and I need to send people to them."

This time, Boss Ma was really in awe.

Before, I only thought that this kid was bragging all day long, and he was a big fool. But the current situation is really far beyond his comprehension.

Say anyone can.

The mouth is the most unreliable.

A person's virtue and character must be judged by his actions. Many people stand on the stage with eloquence, talking about fooling the common people, but in fact they are saying one thing and doing another.

This boy Zhou is different, he really did it.

He wants to open a technical training school and explain all the code details of the open platform clearly. This is too bold and shocking.

Boss Ma swallowed hard, and couldn't help asking: "Sina and Sohu also sent technical teams there? Give them?"

"right."

"Anyone else?"

"We have also contacted Baidu and Penguin, but we have not received a reply yet. If they need it, we will also send a team to help. Friendship, mutual assistance and common development are the tenets of Ziweixing."

Boss Ma asked in surprise, "How many people are there?"

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "Since we are going to do it, we must do our best to make our colleagues speechless. We plan to provide 100-150 senior engineers, all of whom are drawn from Moments. Together, help everyone build an open platform market and work together to promote industrial progress."

Boss Ma took a deep breath and said with emotion, "He has the courage of a hero!"

Zhou Buqi said: "These people still have to work. We plan to start from May 25th to carry out technical training related to the open platform and explain the underlying code. It will last for two months. After the training is completed, we will give you the technical team Send it over."

"It's too late?"

"No way, I have to wait for this year's fresh graduates to join the job, and then transfer them away after they get started with the work? Otherwise, the friend network will not be paralyzed?"

"That's right." Boss Ma sighed, "Xiao Zhou, you have done a great thing! I admire you very much!"

Zhou Buqi said nonchalantly: "The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. It's nothing. By the way, when we are doing training, do you want to send some people over to listen?"

Boss Ma was even more shocked, "Can I still send someone there?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Of course, we are partners! This team of 100-150 people is still too small to solve the domestic Internet market's demand for talents and technologies related to open platforms. This training course is held twice a week , without delaying the usual work.”

"Of course it's good!"

"But you have to pay training fees, 100,000 per person, and we can't pay back to help."

"No problem, I will send a team of 50 people there!"

"The price of this training is not low, but it's not high at all. It doesn't cost hundreds of thousands a year for a company to train talents. Boss Ma was unequivocal and made a decision immediately."

Zhou Buqi said: "That's just right, Ali will take a total of 10 million."

"Ah? Isn't it 100,000 per person?"

"That's right, you sent 50 here, and I'll prepare another 50 for you, isn't it 100? I can't help you with training at my own expense, can I?"

"Can."

Boss Ma is also very generous, and even thinks that Xiao Zhou is a bit funny. He was so grandiose in front of him that he wanted to support the development of domestic technology, but he turned around and haggled over a little training fee.

"Well, then it's settled!"

"That... uh, can I choose someone first?"

"ah?"

Boss Ma said: "From the technical team of 100-150 people, we want to give priority to selecting 50 people. Ali should be the first company to negotiate an open platform sales business with Ziweixing, right?"

Zhou Buqi said: "This is not possible, it depends on the aspirations of the employees. Later, our personnel department will talk to them, ask them about the company they are interested in, and do ideological work for them. Employees are not tools, and their ideas must be respected."