Many enterprises recruit people while laying off a large number of employees. What is the reason?

I have seen a data from Daily Finance:

/kloc-list of layoffs of listed companies in 0/9: Siemens made a big adjustment 1 10,000 people, Oracle Bone Inscriptions China laid off more than 900 people, Jaguar Land Rover laid off about 4,500 people, and chemical giant 3M laid off 2,000 people.

The whole list includes listed companies as well as unlisted companies.

From the end of 17 to the beginning of 18, we kept hearing the news of layoffs.

We also heard that many companies release recruitment information while laying off employees.

Some time ago, I had dinner with a friend who was a programmer, and their company also confirmed this phenomenon, and laid off a large number of employees while recruiting.

Many people ask: why do companies have to lay off employees while recruiting? This is not taking off your pants and farting, is it necessary?

Today, we will analyze in depth why this happens in most enterprises.

First, old employees can't solve new problems and are eliminated. Many people have a misunderstanding in recruiting employees who can solve new problems: the personnel distribution of enterprises is a radish and a pit. Pull this radish out and recruit another radish to fill the hole. This practice of enterprises is to reinvent the wheel.

This idea is wrong.

With the continuous development of enterprises, some pits are no longer needed, but new pits appear, and the previous radishes can't be filled in.

Let me give you a simple example. In the past, many employees in traditional enterprises were assembly line workers, working step by step, but when automation suddenly appeared or all mechanized operations were carried out, the jobs on the assembly line did not exist.

This indirectly shows that these pits no longer exist.

However, if modern mechanized management is adopted, it will create new jobs that are skilled in mechanization and know how to make and operate AI, which is equivalent to a new "pit".

The problem is: this "pit" was not up to the workers on the assembly line before.

This is why the old radish can't fill the new pit and the old employees can't do new jobs.

Therefore, enterprises will take the way of laying off laid-off employees and re-recruiting employees who can take up new positions.

Don't scold the enterprise for those who are eliminated. The purpose of doing business is to make money and profit, not charity. If you don't eliminate employees who can't adapt to the new position, it means that the enterprise is likely to be dragged to death.

I can only blame myself for not keeping pace with the times and not learning.

Second, lay off employees with low cost performance and recruit employees with high cost performance. It's not that the old employees are not qualified for their current jobs, but that the cost of employing people is too expensive.

For example, an administrative job, an old employee who has worked for three years, with a salary of 6000, has done a good job. The company also needs such a position now.

But if employees ask for a salary increase to 8000, the company will have to consider it at this time. If the salary of recruiting a new person in this job is about 4000 to 5000, the technical content of this job is not very high, and all the trivial things are handled step by step.

At this time, enterprises will consider layoffs, lay off old employees with low cost performance and re-recruit new employees with high cost performance.

It is essentially a transaction between employees and enterprises. One party pays the labor, and the other party pays the remuneration.

However, there is a market price for the transaction of labor and remuneration, and enterprises and employees will measure their cost performance according to the market price.

When we regard the labor paid by employees and the remuneration paid by enterprises as a kind of transaction, we will naturally understand why enterprises should do so.

Third, enterprise renewal, by changing people to inject fresh blood into enterprises. I once met such a company when I was doing a business consulting case.

Their business focuses on sales, and many salespeople become veterans in the workplace after three years, relying on existing old customers for comfort and not developing new markets.

However, enterprises do not allow employees to covet comfort and rest on their laurels, and every boss wants his performance to get better and better.

What about this situation?

Enterprises solve problems by replacing people, cut off the old fritters without passion, and then replace them with new ones to expand more markets.

It sounds cruel, but this is the reality.

If the boss does not have this malicious strength and does not promote the development of the enterprise, he will be eliminated by the market sooner or later. In order to keep the enterprise from being eliminated, the boss can only put pressure on employees, force them to move forward and raise a group of lazy employees, which means that the enterprise is committing suicide slowly.

Huawei is a good example. Evaluate it regularly. No matter how long you work, once you fail the examination, you will still be fired.

There have been media reports on Huawei's "clean-up" mechanism:

Huawei has a warning line:

"Over the warning line of 30 years old, this employee will enter the" early warning period "and may face demotion and salary reduction; Over the age of 34, the labor contract is automatically terminated and the shares held are cleared. "

So is Ali.

Every entrepreneur has a sense of crisis. If your boss doesn't have a sense of crisis and won't give you pressure, then your business will close down sooner or later, and in such a competitive market environment, it won't take long to close down. Half a year or a year is enough.

So, don't blame the boss. When you get there, you will think about this problem like them.

An enterprise that does not force employees to grow is an irresponsible enterprise, which indirectly makes employees become "waste wood" eliminated by society.

Why are many Internet companies unwilling to use employees from Oracle Bone Inscriptions?

Because Oracle Bone Inscriptions keeps employees comfortable in hotbeds and provides generous benefits, employees working in Oracle Bone Inscriptions are seriously lacking in self-learning ability, which makes employees in Oracle Bone Inscriptions like frogs in warm water.

After Oracle Bone Inscriptions finally laid off a large number of employees, these employees were regarded as chicken ribs by other Internet companies. In the talent market of the Internet, they have been beaten out of the water by the talents of other companies in terms of ability, and there is no strength to fight back.

In fact, indirectly, it is also the employment system of Oracle Bone Inscriptions Company, which eventually eliminated these people from the talent market. If they leave the enterprise, maybe they will scold the enterprise in their hearts. Why didn't you grow up so much that people were eliminated by the market in middle age?

These are the reasons why companies are hiring while laying off employees.

As an employee of an enterprise, the only thing you can do is to keep learning, constantly charging yourself and constantly improving your core competitiveness, so that no matter where you go, you will not be easily eliminated or replaced.

More importantly, you will not be eliminated by society.

Mencius said: Born in sorrow, died in happiness.

When you are eliminated, it is better to reflect on yourself than to blame the enterprise. You have no sense of crisis and are not responsible for your own life. Learn and grow. Why should companies pay for your life?

Society is so cruel and realistic. If you want to survive and gain a firm foothold, you must improve your core competitiveness in the cruel reality and keep charging.