Recently, there are rumors on social networking platforms that Alibaba has cut 20% to 30% of its staff, in the form of centralized layoffs and lightning layoffs. On May 20, an insider close to Alibaba's multiple business sectors told surging news reporters that the rumors of Alibaba's large-scale layoffs were not accurate. At present, it is a continuous and dynamic business adjustment.
The insider said, "Ali will cut employees according to their personal performance and performance in April and may. Therefore, these two months have always been the month with the highest turnover rate in the whole year."
It is understood that March 31 is the end of Ali's annual performance season, and the performance evaluation and year-end bonus payment of employees will be carried out in April.
The insider also said that in addition to the replacement of personnel with normal performance season, Alibaba Group has also made some adjustments to its new business. "It is true that all business lines and sectors have contracted under the general environment this year, including nailing, express, rookie, Alibaba cloud, etc. but no business sector has been 'fully moved' and there is no large-scale elimination."
As of press time, Alibaba has not responded to rumors of layoffs to surging journalists.
Previously, an internal staff of nailing told reporters that the going and staying were related to the business in charge. Many hardware engineers left nailing, with the focus on software engineers. Engineers for pre-sales and after-sales support have also been "optimized", and no newcomers to such posts have been seen.
"Ali's overall layoff of 80000 people is too exaggerated." An insider close to Alibaba said that the adjustment proportion is not as high as 30% rumored by the outside world. With the normal replacement of performance and the overlap of organizational upgrading and adjustment, the optimization proportion of each business segment is basically about 10%. If the staff turnover caused by business contraction and optimization will give humanized compensation to employees, it is understood that N + 3 compensation will be given, but it is not clear whether the compensation method is unified.
Another insider close to Alibaba said that Alibaba's search Division has a large number of optimized personnel, and the overall edge business is the main part of the optimization. The business adjustment also involves Taobao. Taobao tmall in China's e-commerce sector will have personnel optimization in its core business from this week.
An insider close to Alibaba's recruitment department told surging news reporters that Alibaba's recruitment volume has shrunk a lot this year. In the spring recruitment of fresh students, the technical category is the most, accounting for nearly 90%. "This year's spring recruitment project was suspended in advance without warning. The number of offers issued by Alibaba spring recruitment this year is less than one-third of that of last year."
Another insider close to Alibaba's recruitment department said that Alibaba's social recruitment quota has indeed been reduced this year, but the fresh students recruited last spring will normally enter the job this autumn.
As for the rumors that the conference room of the visitor center and the 618 project room were fully booked due to layoffs, many people familiar with the matter said that it was false news, just for the purpose of disinfection and sterilization, and could be entered normally.
According to the results of Alibaba (NYSE: Baba, 09988. HK) in the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 as of the end of December 2021, the revenue in the third quarter was 242.58 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10%, slightly lower than the market expectation. The net profit attributable to ordinary shareholders was 20.429 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 74%, lower than the market estimate of 31.018 billion yuan. The net profit of non US GAAP was 44.624 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 25%.
Reporter / Shao Bingyan