Are you full? After laying off 2000 people, it is difficult for HR to recruit 2500 people.

Recently, the wave of layoffs of Internet companies has not diminished, and many Internet companies such as Netease, Betta and Hujiang Online School have joined the big camp of layoffs. Strangely, however, it is hard to understand that some of these companies continue to recruit while laying off employees.

Taking Didi as an example, at the company's staff meeting, the plan announced layoffs 15%, involving about 2,000 people; But at the same time, it also announced the recruitment plan, saying that in 20 19, it will increase investment in key areas such as safety technology, product and offline driver management, internationalization, and continue to recruit 2,500 people. In this regard, many people said: Why not simply let laid-off employees transfer jobs internally? It can not only save the cost of recruitment, reduce the cost of personnel turnover, but also enhance the goodwill of employees. ...

But I don't know if it has ever occurred to you that if you put out the news that you want to recruit people, will you really recruit people? Not exactly. Many people think that the purpose of company layoffs is to reduce the number of people. In fact, layoffs are not necessarily the solution to business problems. If an enterprise wants to lay off employees, it means that there is something wrong with its operation, but it is not necessarily as simple as "too many people". On the issue of Didi, many netizens think that layoffs are real, but they don't have to recruit people. The news is only released to convey the message that "we are just normal personnel changes".

In fact, the opinions of netizens are not unreasonable. Up to now, Didi has been in a state of being unprofitable, but it continues to burn money. The windmill business that had a promising profit was also offline indefinitely due to security incidents. Therefore, Didi has no choice but to lay off employees, but at the same time it also gives compensation to the laid-off employees. According to informed sources, the amount of compensation involved in the layoffs has reached several hundred million yuan. Under such circumstances, Didi funds are obviously tight, but they don't want to reveal a trace of negative emotions to the outside world. It is a way to create a "prosperous and prosperous" scene by publishing recruitment requirements.

So, will layoffs and recruitment happen? The answer is yes. In addition to netizens' speculation, while funds are tight and costs are reduced through layoffs, it is also a factor that enterprises need to consider to use recruitment information to hide their eyes and ears and maintain market image.

First of all, exchange new people for old people. In fast-growing companies and some large companies, there is a lot of mismatch between abilities and positions. When the company develops to a certain stage, many employees have become "smooth operators" and "old white rabbits". They not only feel relaxed, lose their passion and innovation ability, but also may affect the working motivation of the bottom employees and the working atmosphere of the whole team, which becomes a threat that cannot be ignored.

Ma Yun once said that there are many old white rabbits in big companies who don't work and will slowly infect more people. Their reproductive capacity is beyond imagination. If they are not eliminated in time, it will drag down the company. Under such circumstances, enterprises need to regularly clean up the "old white rabbit" employees and recruit new employees who are younger, more passionate and more innovative. With the addition of fresh blood, the company will regain its vitality and realize the optimization of employees' ability structure.

Second, reduce personnel costs. In large companies, there are great differences between business divisions and departments, and internal transfer of employees who may have been laid off may not meet the needs of the employing department and optimize the employee structure. Moreover, each department has its own recruitment system and conditions, and they prefer to recruit outstanding talents through the combination of "internal transfer+external recruitment". When most companies are laying off employees, enterprises can recruit more outstanding talents through flat salary or even low salary.

To sum up, layoffs and recruitment are not an "alternative" relationship, and it is not impossible for them to appear at the same time!