Haier is expected to lay off 10,000 people this year

Absrtact: Reporter learned yesterday, Haier Group chief executive Zhang recently in a business forum, since the exposure, following last year's layoffs, this year Haier will cut 10,000 people. At the beginning of last year, the number of Haier staff was 86,000, reduced to 70,000 at the end, and a layoff rate of 18%. Today, the reporter learned that Haier Group chief executive Zhang recently in a business forum, since the exposure, following last year's layoffs, Haier will cut 10,000 more people.

"The number of Haier employees was 86,000 at the beginning of last year, down to 70,000 at the end and 18% for layoffs," he said. This year is expected to cut 10,000 more people, mainly the middle tier, there is some business become intelligent not need so many people. "Recently, Haier CEO Zhang in a business forum when the plan, said the layoffs this year will be based on the last year to continue."

It is understood that the Haier Group, which owns tens of thousands of people, has transformed its layout as early as a few years ago. The path is: First management change, let "big company" flat, and then promote the network strategy, strengthen the "user" concept, the introduction of Internet partners. With the reform, Haier's corporate organization is also changing, from the series into parallel, hoping to let enterprises and users linked together. Zhang in the above forum speech also said, after the change, we call it "outside to the middleman, inside to heat insulation wall", the middleman did not, the insulation wall is middle managers.