"Ideal car laid off employees. In May, it broke the contract with 2022 fresh students. I don't know what to do after the spring recruitment. Autumn recruitment rejected more than n offers and chose ideal car. I can't describe my mood." On the pulse, some netizens sighed like this. Not a few people had the same experience with him. Some netizens uploaded pictures of the broken contract e-mail and said: "coordinate ideal car received the broken contract e-mail at 10:30 a.m. and the school will recruit graduates in 2022."
It is understood that among the fresh students who broke the contract with ideal automobile in May, many have signed tripartite agreements with ideal automobile and the school to prepare for entry after graduation defense. After being broken the contract, they missed the spring recruit. The tripartite agreement is the abbreviation of the employment agreement for graduates and graduate students of ordinary colleges and universities. It is a written form to clarify the rights and obligations of graduates, employers and schools in the employment of graduates. It can solve a series of related problems of fresh graduates, such as registered residence, archives, insurance, provident fund, etc. the breach of the agreement has a significant negative impact on fresh students.
In response, the official response of ideal Auto: Recently, ideal auto has made business adjustment, and some jobs have been closed, involving some enrollment partners of the University who have not joined this year. In view of the inconvenience that may be caused to these students to find jobs again, ideal automobile has provided a scheme for job transfer selection and termination compensation, and is currently communicating with relevant students. For those who cannot transfer their posts and terminate their contracts, they shall compensate one month's salary as liquidated damages.
Coincidentally, Xiaopeng automobile, also a new force in car making, has recently been exposed as a fresh student who broke the contract. A netizen posted a screenshot of a short message on the pulse and said: "Xiao Peng has started to break his appointment to enroll in vocational schools for 22 years. If you can run, run quickly."
Then, the 2022 students who broke the contract with Xiaopeng automobile posted one after another to tell about their experiences. The compensation plan given by Xiaopeng automobile is to compensate 5000 yuan to the newly laid off students and return the tripartite agreement materials. However, this compensation has not been recognized by fresh students, and it is considered to be an irresponsible performance of throwing money away.
Regarding the breach of the contract at this time, a relevant fresh student said in the comment area: "even if we don't recruit people, we can still recruit in spring if we break the contract two months earlier. Now? Xiaopeng automobile has no bottom line for its own interests. We are about to graduate. My parents asked me where to work after graduation. I can only hold back my tears."
As the top three new car makers in China, the offers of Weilai, ideal and Xiaopeng are sought after by many fresh students. Why do they make the fresh students who are full of expectations become "abandoned children"?
The industry is in a recession, and the fresh students will be laid off first
2021 will be a brilliant year for China's new forces in car manufacturing. In February this year, ideal automobile released its annual performance announcement up to 2021. The data showed that the total delivery of ideal automobile in 2021 reached 90491, a year-on-year increase of 177.4%; The automobile sales revenue was 26.13 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year increase of 182% compared with 9.28 billion yuan in 2020.
Xiaopeng automobile also released the fourth quarter and full year financial report of 2021 in March. The financial report shows that the total vehicle delivery of Xiaopeng automobile in 2021 was 98155, up 263% from 27041 in 2020; The automobile sales revenue was 20.04 billion yuan, an increase of 261.3% over the previous year. In the fourth quarter, Xiaopeng delivered 41751 cars, accounting for 42.54% of the annual sales, which can be described as a "highlight moment".
According to the financial reports of Weilai automobile, ideal automobile and Xiaopeng automobile, the three new energy vehicle enterprises are still in a state of loss in 2021, and their R & D expenditure and marketing management expenditure are high, but they are in rapid growth.
Summary of financial report data of Weilai automobile, ideal automobile and Xiaopeng automobile in 2021 (unit: RMB 100 million) drawing: daily report of migrant workers
In 2022, under the attack of epidemic situation and rising raw material prices, the life of new energy vehicle enterprises is difficult.
In March this year, Li Xiang, CEO of ideal automobile, said: "the increase in battery costs is outrageous, and most of the brands that have not yet increased their prices have not yet been negotiated. Recently, the continuous surge in the price of domestic refined oil has made many people interested in buying new energy vehicles. However, due to the rise in the price of battery raw materials, nearly 20 new energy vehicle companies have announced to increase their prices, ranging from a thousand yuan to tens of thousands of yuan."
Musk also said on Twitter: "this year is really a supply chain nightmare, and this nightmare has not ended yet." Affected by the epidemic in April, the chips shrank, and it was time for the automobile industry to clean up the sand. "
In this case, the performance of new energy vehicle enterprises in the first quarter was fairly good. For example, according to the financial report of the first quarter of 2022 released by ideal automobile, its quarterly vehicle sales revenue was 9.31 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 168.7%; The gross profit margin of vehicles was 22.4%, higher than 22.3% in the previous quarter; The net loss was 10.9 million yuan, significantly better than 360million yuan in the same period last year and 296million yuan in the previous quarter.
But in April, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse. The latest production and sales data released by the China Automobile Association shows that in April 2022, China's automobile production and sales reached a monthly low in the same period in the past decade, with 1205000 and 1181000 vehicles completed in the same month, down 46.2% and 47.1% month on month, and 46.1% and 47.6% year on year.
The decrease in production and sales is mainly due to the fact that since April, the domestic epidemic has generally spread widely, some enterprises in the automobile industry chain and supply chain have stopped production, logistics and transportation have been greatly hindered, and the production and supply capacity has declined sharply. Cuidongshu, Secretary General of the passenger Association, pointed out: "The impact of the Shanghai epidemic on the automobile supply side is huge. Shanghai accounts for 10% of the national production, and Changchun also accounts for 10%, and the two regions together account for more than 20% of the output. However, the secondary impact of their parts and components is relatively large, especially in Shanghai, the core distribution center of parts and components. More than 80% of the parts and components are produced in and around Shanghai. Objectively, the impact of the Shanghai epidemic on the sales of passenger cars is about 40%."
As of April 30, 2022, ideal automobile has 225 retail centers, covering 106 cities, and operates 292 after-sales maintenance centers and ideal automobile authorized B & P centers in 211 cities. However, affected by the epidemic, only 4167 ideal ones were delivered in April, 2022, which was significantly lower than the 11034 in March. Obviously, it suffered a serious loss.
Picture of ideal car monthly sales source: Official Website of ideal car
However, it is still uncertain how long the impact of the epidemic will last, so adjusting some businesses and departments, and even breaking the contract for fresh students, has become one of the options for ideal automobile cost saving. After all, compared with old employees, the value of new employees is much lower.
A former employee of ideal automobile said that his driving intelligent perception department had been completely terminated. He speculated that the reason was that "in essence, the Department exists only for hype, so he did not intend to do this by himself". Li Xiang, CEO of ideal automobile, once mentioned "intelligent driving" at the performance conference, saying that "automatic driving is the bottom and most important system of intelligent electric vehicles". However, if the layoff information is accurate, intelligence may not be so important to the current ideal automobile.
For new energy vehicle enterprises, it is not impossible to control expenditure. R & D has always been an important expenditure item for new energy vehicle enterprises. In 2021, Xiaopeng automobile invested 4.114 billion yuan in R & D expenditure, accounting for 19.5% of the annual revenue. In the fourth quarter, the R & D expenditure of Xiaopeng automobile was 1.451 billion yuan, a significant increase of 215.6% year-on-year and 14.8% month on month.
In the financial report of ideal automobile, it is also mentioned that the R & D expenditure in the first quarter of 2022 was RMB 1.37 billion, an increase of 167% over the same period last year and 11.7% month on month. The increase is mainly due to the increase in employee compensation caused by the increase in R & D personnel and the increase in related expenses caused by the increase in R & D activities of the company's new models.
When necessary, car companies prefer to ensure sales and production, rather than research and development without benefits in the short term.
Not long ago, chenshihua, Deputy Secretary General of China Automobile Association, said: "the output of more than 1 million vehicles lost in April needs enterprises to strive to catch the key window period in May and June to make up for the losses."
At present, the epidemic situation in Shanghai and Changchun is gradually improving, and enterprises are also actively resuming production and work. Xiaopeng automobile also said in the latest financial report that it has resumed the double shift production in Zhaoqing factory, and the orders in May will return to the level before the epidemic. However, some netizens said that some members of the car lovers' Association wanted to return the cars ordered this year, because they were not sure whether the economy would deteriorate further in the second half of the year. They were not short of money when placing orders, but now they are more inclined to choose to reduce expenditure.
The automobile manufacturing industry is the Pearl on the crown of modern industry, but even the pearl can only be valued if it has market demand. The current short-term recession in the industry has shown us the phenomenon of fresh students being broken. I hope this situation will not continue, otherwise we will lose more than one pearl.