The company has no business now. Is it necessary to lay off staff?

The global market has entered the cold winter simultaneously. More and more people think that relaxed and carefree work is becoming more and more unstable; More and more grass-roots posts are replaced by artificial intelligence and robots; More and more stabilization work has been merged; Even more and more professional managers are directly killed by their bosses. In the end, global enterprises are faced with the thorny problems of survival now and in the future, with rising costs, slow market growth and plummeting profits.

According to incomplete statistics, there are 108 P2P platforms for domestic enterprises, and the wave of layoffs first occurred in the field of mutual funds. The retractor broke out the layoffs information; Ali, JD.COM and other enterprises "shrink" to varying degrees; It is reported that Foxconn laid off 340,000 people this month. ...

However, the news of more layoffs is the number of lonely startups. In the global market, Verizon, the largest communication operator in the United States with a market value of $220 billion, laid off 44,000 old employees; Toshiba, a veteran Japanese giant, announced that the company's current business operation is not good and it will lay off 7,000 people in the future; Starbucks is even more outspoken about its massive layoffs, and now it's IKEA's turn. Recently, the Swedish giant announced that it will carry out the largest internal organizational restructuring since its establishment.

But there are also different voices. The China Employment Research Institute and Zhaopin jointly released the China Employment Market Prosperity Report, which shows that the employment situation is not so bad. Especially in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions, the employment market is relatively good, and the CIER index in this quarter is 1.86, which is a sharp rebound from last quarter. Yangzhou, Ningbo, Jiaxing and Zhenjiang in the Yangtze River Delta region, and Foshan, Zhongshan and Huizhou in the Pearl River Delta region all exceeded 2 this quarter, and some cities even exceeded 3, indicating that demand is obviously greater than supply.

As the boss who started his own business, layoffs are a contradiction. Mr. Chen has always been the boss of an Internet company. The company was founded in 14, riding the wave of internet entrepreneurship. The company is small, with 65,438+000 employees, but every employee was hired by Mr. Chen's personal interview. For employees, he is Bole. For Mr. Chen, it is his responsibility to make the company develop better and give employees a better platform. The company's business is sluggish and its business volume is declining. Although the company still has stable projects as its income, Mr. Chen knows that if it is supported for more than half a year in its present form, it may change. Under such circumstances, how to make the company survive and how to make this small sapling survive is the most important thing, so when it breaks, it breaks and survives. By calculation, it is estimated that 50% of employees will be laid off, and even the vice president they recruited will be dismissed together. Higher labor costs are the biggest burden. Ensure the steady progress of the company's current projects to survive the cold winter.

As employees, there are too many passives, helplessness and fears. At that time, due to the global telecom industry recession, Alcatel France laid off 29,000 employees in its global subsidiaries in the next 65,438+08 months, including Alcatel's joint venture company Alcatel Shanghai Bell. Layoff was a very sensitive thing at that time. The management made detailed arrangements and plans, and the whole plan took about 9 months. After the National Day holiday, the plan was announced to all employees, and the complete communication with employees was attached great importance, so the whole activity was successfully completed. This kind of layoffs is very planned and smooth. At present, in most enterprises, layoffs are very rapid and even rude.

As a human resources practitioner, HR leads layoffs, but can it explain that they are stable? Don't! IKEA has laid off 5% of its staff worldwide. This layoff involves 0/60 jobs in China District, mainly in public relations, human resources and administration. At present, the seemingly stable, decent and safe work has gradually become embarrassing. In the process of layoffs, HR is embarrassed by the company's decision, employees' incomprehension and the danger of their jobs.

There is no "iron rice bowl" or "stable meal ticket" in the market. For being in the current social environment, we should be prepared to meet the changes every day and leave a good retreat for ourselves. As the saying goes, "mountains will fall and people will run." No one is more practical than himself. Speaking by ability, the jungle law of survival of the fittest has always existed, and no one can escape. Although most people understand this truth, it is easy to get tired and eventually become a fool after repeated work day after day. But they often don't know that the decision-making power has always been in their own hands, whether in the workplace or in life. The times are fair, we will triumph with those who are willing to embrace change, and we will leave cruelty to those who are hesitant.