Zhang, CEO of Haier Group, has been exposed to a business forum recently

"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.