Does the wave of layoffs in Chinese enterprises in 2021 need to be "judged" by morality?

1990 year , Canon camera production line landed in Zhuhai, Guangdong .

Peak period , Canon Zhuhai has an annual sales volume of 13 Billion dollars , The business can cover lens grinding to camera assembly , With nearly 10000 employees . Young women workers are in the majority , Once known as “ Women's country ”. Its card digital camera , It accounts for half of Canon's global card digital camera sales .

Last ten years , With the sudden emergence of photography functions of global mobile phone manufacturers , Traditional camera manufacturers usher in a cold winter .2020 end of the year , The total investment of Canon Zhuhai is only 2.2 Billion dollars , Production lens 1229 Ten thousand pieces 、 Digital camera 102.9 Ten thousand units 、 Digital cameras 9.4 Ten thousand units , There are still... Employees left 1317 people .

This spring , This company was the first to enter the world of Zhuhai 500 Strong enterprise , In the span of thirty years 、 After witnessing several economic cycles, he announced his withdrawal from China , Left a long and full “ controversy ” My farewell .

After layoffs from a Japanese company “ Malicious compensation ” Speaking of

Due to the rise of potential competitors , Zhuhai canon, whose main business collapsed due to the impact of dimension reduction , Recently, an announcement was issued ：“ As the market shrinks sharply , And novel coronavirus has been rampant for a long time , The company is facing unprecedented difficulties . Through the joint efforts of the company and all employees , Still unable to turn the tide , The headquarters has carefully studied , Make tough decisions , Termination of the company's production .”

The meaning is simple and clear ： Take away the whole business , A large number of employees will be laid off —— What is the compensation standard ？

According to the reporter of times weekly , The previous monthly salary of a laid-off employee was 7 A thousand dollars to 1 Ten thousand yuan , Now I get an appointment 25 Ten thousand yuan of compensation , And another colleague works 30 year , Finally I can get 150 Compensation of more than ten thousand yuan .

say concretely , Canon's compensation plan , Including financial compensation 、 Special comfort money 、 Employment support 、 It is composed of five parts, namely, the memory bonus and the Spring Festival condolence fund . among , People are most familiar with financial compensation “N+1” Pattern , Canon has no upper limit on compensation .

in addition , The company also set up “ Special condolences ”： Less than years of service 10 year , Length of service available × Average monthly wage ×1.0 The compensation ; Full length of service 10 But dissatisfied with 20 year , Can be obtained “×1.2” compensate ; The length of service exceeds 20 Available in “×1.3” The compensation . also , There are seven levels of employment assistance , It can be obtained according to different length of service 1 to 7 The average wage for months . Plus the Spring Festival condolence money ,1000 Yuan for visiting relatives and 1000 Yuan Spring Festival red envelope …

finally , Canon “ Malicious compensation ” There was criticism from the .

Some people began to blame canon , Said its compensation standard is much higher than that of Chinese local enterprises , Then I suspect that this Japanese enterprise has ulterior motives , Try to use compensation measures far beyond the legal requirements to raise the level of compensation for Chinese enterprises , Muddle the water .

It's hard to believe , Such an irresistible rush to brain mutilation , Still in 2022 In, it spread rapidly .

Has the business ethics of Chinese enterprises been seriously lacking ？

2021 At the end of the year so far , Iqiyi's layoffs have reached 20%-40%, tencent PCG Be close to 30% Of the people were “ Optimize ”, Bytes to beat “ War Investment Department ” Almost by the whole “ Remove ”. Layoffs seem to be a “ The plague ”, Synchronous burst in youzan 、 Ding Dong buys vegetables , Mushroom street 、 Baidu 、 Ali 、 sound of dripping water 、 Suning and other Internet enterprises .

Past year , nearly 20 The layoff statistics of Internet companies spread rapidly on the Internet . It is difficult to tell the true from the false , everybody will be deterred by the danger . According to the recent survey on personnel mobility in the Internet industry released by Zhaopin ： Nearly half of the respondents believed that , There are layoffs in their own enterprises . And the most disturbing signal the report sends is ： The intensity of enterprise layoffs is in direct proportion to the size of the enterprise . It means , The more head , The more people are laid off .

For the past 20 years , Known as the “ The most correct way ” Real estate , The storm is still spreading . Second half of last year , The industry turns cold rapidly , Evergrande, which kills both stocks and debts, took the lead in blowing the whistle , Country garden 、 vanke 、 China resources 、 Poly 、 Green city 、 Shimao 、 New town 、 Xu Hui 、 Zhongnan real estate enterprises , One after another “ Organizational restructuring ”. Not long ago ,“ My colleagues in the sunshine city area wrote with tears ”《 An open letter to Lin Tengjiao 》 in , Every sigh screamed out the complex situation of the real estate developer .

as well as ,“ Double subtraction ” The education and training industry that was almost destroyed by the storm . A year , People have witnessed what is known as the times “ an crown ” The fading of Internet giants , It also witnessed the restart of the golden track real estate , And witnessed a series of cold and long layoffs .

But apart from the mainstream of these lights “ tragedy ” Outside , We still have the silent majority . According to the National Bureau of statistics , By the end of 2021 year 11 month , The unemployment rate in the national urban survey is 5.0% ,6-24 The unemployment rate in the age-old population survey is 14.3% ,25-59 The unemployment rate in the age-old population survey is 4.2% , Than 2019 The year-on-year data is much higher .

Small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) 、 Services and labor-intensive manufacturing , Share the responsibility for China's near 80% Employment of labor force . In the past two years, , This group of garment factory workers 、 Service workers 、 Export manufacturing practitioners 、 Self employed and some white-collar workers —— The lights are missing , This group of ordinary people who are unknown around us , How are you doing ？

The problem of touching the soul is often not really because touching the soul , Just because the answer points to reality .

A few years ago , People love and acquiesce in a kind of black humor ：“ layoffs ”, This should have been the most clearly defined word , Often mixed with “ entrepreneurs ” We are talking about optimization 、 Organizational adjustment 、 Stay in office without salary , As well as the strange sounds of sending talents to the society . But no matter what the name is , What a ridiculous statement , Layoffs are, after all, the worst news .

And in the poor performances of many bright public figures who repeatedly overdraw their public credibility , In front of the camera, you and I are also trying to laugh —— And to this day , Just suddenly found that we have become the joke itself .

2008 year , Nokia is at its peak , Net profit growth reached 67%.

A few years later , Global competitors are rising rapidly , Nokia's profits are falling fast . Nokia, suffering from internal and external troubles, closed a large number of factories and laid off thousands of employees . The move directly led to tens of thousands of people demonstrating and protesting , The local government of Germany was involved in the investigation , And the unions 、 The media and even the whole public opinion .

Final , Nokia suffered a great loss of goodwill due to the layoff , super 7 Billion euros in revenue and 1 Billion euros of profits were lost .

University of Colorado Wayne Cascio The professor once pointed out that , Enterprise layoffs are very important to the laid-off employees , It doesn't just mean losing a job . In its continuous follow-up investigation, it is found that , In the sample, only 41% Can find a job with similar salary after one year , 26% The treatment of people is lower than before , The rest are unable to find work .

The impact will not stay for more than one year . One is from Columbia University （Columbia University） According to the Research Report of ,1982 Employees who were laid off in , until 20 Years later, his salary level is still similar to that of his colleagues who have not been laid off 20% The gap between . even to the extent that , Researchers at the State University of New York point out that the health problems of laid-off employees are higher than those of their colleagues left behind 83%, The tendency of violence is higher 6 times …

There are innumerable objective analytical conclusions , Will tell people the intensity of a cold winter , And how this long cold winter came . But perhaps the most unacceptable thing for ordinary people is , When an industry is expanding rapidly 、 Actively recruit 、 After attracting a large number of social labor , People come to “ Be optimized ”“ Adjusted ”, Sudden changes seem to happen overnight .

Who should be the most responsible for this cyclical wave of mass layoffs ？

For businesses , Downsizing is a means of self-regulation , This is beyond reproach , But this is not everything . People can cite various research reports to prove the harm that layoffs bring to enterprises —— for example , According to the research of Stockholm University and the University of Canterbury , Employee satisfaction will decrease after layoffs 41%, Decreased organizational commitment 36%, Job performance declines 20%.

In the increasingly fierce competition 、 Today, uncertainty continues to expand , Chinese enterprises are influenced by the market 、 policy 、 All aspects of technology , There will inevitably be drastic changes —— Especially facing the great downward pressure of the global economy , Consumption and investment are lower than expected , When an enterprise has to divest part of its business segments , Layoffs may become the norm in many industries .

But at the end of the day , Downsizing is not just a business activity . All problems , The most important thing is to go back to the original point and rethink . If you can't , At least when we say goodbye , Enterprises need to give employees the most basic decency , It's not just about business ethics , It is more about law and people's public rights .

1930 year , Keynes, a British economist, put forward a conjecture ： To live in 2030 People in need only work every week 15 Hours , Would be eight times richer than they were a hundred years ago , People will have a lot of free time waiting to kill .

Now , Time is coming . It's hard to say. , Whether people have pinned their only hope on a secure job just to survive the cold winter . But anyway , We may need a new one “ Keynes ”, To guess and affirm the bright future of the next century .