Lenovo Group layoffs, bloody lesson

The company can only give you the location, but can not give you the future, your value depends on their irreplaceable. This article has been maddeningly recent and I do not know how many people have experienced so-called strategic layoffs. My reading feeling is: rational view of the work, because even that position, ready to find alternative people. Take a look at some of the Internet for everyone to recommend this article, to guard against their own !!!

Today, I am afraid that Lenovo's largest in the history of a large layoffs. Nine of our departments, three were sent away today, and three more have to be re-established with the remaining three remaining. The Institute walked more than 30 people, transfer more than 20 people. This is the second so-called strategic adjustment I have experienced. There are many feelings, but it seems that everything is stuck in my heart and can not be said. Simply record this past events, remind myself.

Lenovo fine cuts

Last night, the institute secretly held an emergency meeting. With more than 20 "responsible managers" participating, I realized the whole layoff process. On the 6th start the plan, on the 7th to discuss the list, submit the list on the 8th, 9-10 HR review, and for formalities, 11th interview. The whole process is done in one go. Today is the interview day. Two small meeting rooms on the first floor of Block B.

The person who goes in, the leader first affirms his past accomplishments, then explains the meaning of the strategic layoffs, then tells the amount of compensation paid, and delivers all the material already in place and then signs his contract of termination of employment. Average each person 20 minutes.

The laid-off workers are completely unaware of the situation. Before the interview, all their formalities were over. When they were called to the conference room, the mailboxes, manpower maps and IC cards were all canceled. When they knew the news, they had to leave the company within two hours. All of this is done in a highly confidential process.

Even if I am a responsible manager, I only know the employees who accompanied me tomorrow - a girl sitting in my office next door for more than two years, Shao Jun.

I do not know how I had last night, feeling particularly bad. According to company rules, I can not tell her in advance. Only feel my heart blocked panic. And my colleague who spent two days in the morning and tomorrow will be laid off, and she does not know at all.

I was particularly tired when I was going to take a taxi home. The driver spoke: how can you get tired? How easy it is to earn money in your business. I smile for a moment, did not answer.

In the morning, Shao Jun arrived earlier than me. As soon as she asked her good morning, I was afraid to say a word again. As usual, I feed the little goldfish on my desk. When the Institute moved to research and develop the building, everyone made two small goldfish, but it is not easy for these careless researchers to take care of them and live to the present. Shao Jun also take my fish joking, saying that the whole child a fish essence, actually still alive.

I no longer speak, sitting in a daze computer, waiting for the moment to come. The phone finally rang, I went to Shao Jun front, shaking hands with her, and then told her to go downstairs conference room. She knows what it means to go to the conference room. The two meeting rooms from morning to night, all those who go in, go out and pack things directly after leaving.

But Shao Jun has been very calm, because before her, our department has gone in two. It was Qingtao who talked to her. Everyone was so familiar and needless to say anything. In less than five minutes, he ended all the talks and signed the contract to dissolve the labor relations and came out.

Shao Jun FM365 turn around, experienced 365 crazy layoffs, she also sent good people that time, so she was very clear about all this.

Then go back to the office, accompany her to pack up. To lunch time, she said, go to the cafeteria to eat it. But I did not have the heart to tell her that her IC card was now canceled. So I advised her to eat outside.

Responsible for another person's responsibility manager but said it directly, and someone told her that the manpower map has also been canceled, when Shao Jun was very much lost, feeling suddenly implicated in the company at all.

She worked in Lenovo for three years, but within two hours, Lenovo no longer have any traces of her. Was abandoned by the company. So abandoned it? Instant efforts, is no longer proud of: "Lenovo" friends now?

At noon, the whole department went to spicy mother-in-law to eat uniforms. Do not remember what to say. Afternoon, I sent Shao Jun home. Passing through the entrance of a primary school, traffic jam, she said, I have never walked in here afternoon, never seen these children from school. Yes, I also work late each day, it is not really used to go home during the day.

Sitting in her house for a while, because I knew she was very uncomfortable at this time. She said a lot of 365 things that year.

Yes, no matter how you kill your company, when the company does not need you, everything you've done no longer makes sense.

I deliberately stayed for a while, listening to her because I knew that although Shao Jun was very strong, I turned around and walked away, and she would probably cry like many people laid off today.

Hardest hit

Server, function, is the hardest hit this layoffs. Which server lab may not exist in the future, today only five people cut the job. In the morning I heard that it was gone. A few people were crying, but I did not look past.

Some people are very emotional, because absolutely can not think will fall on their own head, however, the strategic redundancy means that not your performance as a standard, in other words, there is no standard.

There are several former great cattle, even the then heavily employed doctors from the outside, it will go away, there is no room for negotiation. Even the server lab director are gone. This whole direction is not required. Whose fault is this? I do not know, but I only knew that the injured was the lowest-level employee. No wonder there was a girl who graduated from Tsinghua University and cried in a mess.

Assistant of function almost gone. And I am familiar with An Xin, Qin Li, have not had time to say goodbye. Now the institute does not set up an assistant post. A few days ago met them in the canteen, I also said they are the spokesman for the Institute's image. Wuzhuang also gone, this is my old comrade in arms. That project group that I first entered Lenovo, until now, is still associating, leaving me and Guo Mingliang, Jin Feng.

I still remember that year, our project team is known as a banner of the Institute. FM365 was successfully saved because of the content management system we developed. Later, 365 down, we will support Win-pass. Later, when the win also fell, so Institute of Information Engineering Laboratory also gone. The entire research room more than 30 people in the year, up to now, still in the original post, leaving me and Wang Jiang, in the Societe Generale. Wuzhuang is very miserable, his wife is pregnant, and he just bought a house. I dare not imagine the future for him, because I can not do something for him.

The focus of the layoffs is the new staff, and the old association for many years. 10 years of work, Ben 50 people, still the same go. I really want to talk to them, when the 50-year-old was abandoned by the company, do not know what kind of feelings will be. I can not think.

Back home, and small Ding chat, I learned that the server went away, this is not the news, because the server's people walked about the same, but her husband also left! Today, they also work together, I do not know Will not go home together. They and I live in the same district, just married soon, just bought the room.

I suddenly remembered what a famous general of World War II said: When I let the soldiers on the battlefield, I would think of them as a bunch of ants, not people. Because I think they have a wife, children, parents, I do not have the heart to let them die. Do not know the leaders in the discussion of the list, is to think of us as ants do?

Whose fault is it?

In my three years at Lenovo, I witnessed the whole process of Lenovo's expansion from full scale to full contraction. The slogan put forward at that time was: high-tech association, service association, international association. Now, high-tech only has associated applications, either, and it's not yet known if it will work.

The IT service group that represents the service is classified as a Class C service and can not be protected by itself. Software Design Center is about to have nothing to do with Lenovo. Lenovo attack on all sides, but hurt sideways.

Who is wrong? Is the wrong leader! Including FM365, these directions are optimistic, are making big money, but why the association will fail? I do not want to go into the study here, but just think that the leadership of the mistakes made, Only our ordinary staff to bear.

Lenovo is not home

This is the conclusion I have drawn from these two major strategic adjustments. I think I am more profound than many people. Employees and the company's relationship is the relationship of interests, do not be the company as a home. Of course, this does not mean that my work will be lazy. I will still work well, I want to associate with Lenovo.

At the same time, I also think Lenovo did not owe me. Lenovo gave me such a good working environment, such a good learning opportunity, there are good treatment. However, the company is the company, the company for me to do all this, because I can contribute to the company, absolutely not the kind of selfless dedication like Mom and Dad's feelings.

Recognizing this, when I leave in the future, the leadership will confirm my performance, and I will say thank you to the leadership and will no longer be sentimental.

Yang Yuanqing said he hopes this adjustment will bring about 10 years of good fortune to Lenovo. However, recalling the last strategic readjustment, that is, on November 1, 2001, people could not help doubting this remark. Suspected of doubt, things still have to be done. Life will continue.

- Many colleagues who miss working with me!

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Liu Chuanzhi responds to "the company is not the home."

A Lenovo employee wrote "the company is not home," the article posted on the Internet, euphemism, recorded his true feelings. After I looked, I was very sad. Among the laid-off employees, some were veteran employees whom I directed directly in those days. None of them called me silently and silently accepted everything, which made my heart even more apologetic. I think more of these employees are direct subordinates of Yuanqing, and he must feel better than me.

I think that the most fundamental principle an enterprise should follow is development. Only by developing can it be responsible for the shareholders, employees and the society. In terms of development, the enterprises must make progress and the internal must introduce competition mechanism. Employees in the association should have both feel warm side, but also have the courage to come first and feel the other side of the pressure, it can not be regarded as a real business home is inevitable.

At home, children can have all sorts of shortcomings, make mistakes and parents are ultimately tolerant. Businesses can not be like this.

In the article "The company is not a home," the article mentions that strategic readjustment is due to the mistakes of leadership and to the responsibility of ordinary employees. When I saw this view, I stopped to think. I think he is right. This time, some employees were laid off and lead the decision-making errors related to strategic blunders. This is a very painful thing. Therefore, we should sincerely say "I'm sorry" to the employees who were laid off.

But I, as the chairman of the board of directors, take the development of enterprises as the basic pursuit. Should I ask Yang Yuanqing how they work? One way is to be as cautious and avoid losses as possible; the other one is to make breakthroughs and innovations and make mistakes. We have fought in a very difficult situation and have done so in all respects with foreign enterprises. However, we must contend for robbing.

We must enter into new fields without any experience and put in manpower and material resources to try. Since we can not see the direction and because we do not have a good way, we will be caught in a bad shape and pay a heavy price.

In my more than ten years of direct responsibility, I did not know how many mistakes I made and how much I had to pay. However, my leadership was lenient and did not count against me. Huiyang Lenovo factory in the road across the road, 400,000 square meters of land, has been idle, the value of 60 million, Lenovo bought around 1997. At that time I was making preparations for the development of the manufacturing industry. Since I was going to fully support other businesses, I stopped it.

Lenovo's annual profit in 1998 also two or three million, 60 million is how much weight ah. Responsible for organizing this work colleagues are all adjusted, there are some so left Lenovo. Since 1988, Lenovo's overseas operations, the number of sub-combined, in these integration, I can not say how many detachment of Lenovo left. Ashamed to say, due to my mistakes as the main person in charge, may change the fate of some people's lives.

When I think of these things, I will ask myself what should I do? The same is true of today. The question I want to answer is how I should ask Yang Yuanqing.

I can only say that Yuan Qing is:

First, keep in mind your goal, bearing in mind your responsibility, enterprising, innovative, breakthrough! In addition, there is no other way out;

Second, we must cherish resources, especially to care for employees, firmly remember that people-oriented;

Third, to fight, won seven battles in ten battle is excellent commander!

I am sorry to say to the author that "the company is not the home," we think differently. Yuan Qing only from the perspective of enterprise development, from the overall perspective of the problem, this is the most fundamental people-oriented, the most fundamental staff responsible. If Yuanqing is really responsible for the local staff to consider the problem, the business will fall into a situation among children and adolescents, completely unable to develop, China will lose association. Therefore, the main theme of business forward can only be war drum, is passionate.

Lenovo's senior leaders represented by Yuanqing are under tremendous pressure. Employees said: "We give you the best time in your life, take us well, do not go wrong," shareholders are kept saying: "Development! Profit! Growth!" Is to catch the peer Every opportunity to give us a fatal blow, in this endless arena, the slightest mistake will be blunt, badly beaten. I am here, I know a taste.

Therefore, we - the shareholders, the employees and the direct responsible persons for them - the enterprise management, must strictly demand, criticize, and make their own suggestions. At the same time, we must applaud, we must cry, and we must be good! We are united in solidarity, Winning battles, we are neither arrogant nor impatient; defeated, we encourage each other, the battle is still loud, this is us, this is the real Spartak phalanx!