Station B issued a lawyer’s letter to the whistleblower and denied tampering with the overtime record of the employee who died suddenly
On February 9th, the workplace blogger “Wang Luobei”, who broke the news of “sudden death of employees at station B”, posted a post, and received a submission from fans saying that station B has a first and final version of the shift schedule and attendance every month. I saw with my own eyes that the company deleted the overtime work in the attendance of “Twilight Mu Xin”. In addition, the support and on-duty and working from home in the company announcement are not counted as working hours, no labor compensation will be paid, and employees are required to be on call 24 hours a day.
According to the chat records provided by the whistleblower, the deceased worked overtime in the week before his death, but the first statement of station B stated that he did not work overtime in the week before his death. The schedule provided by the whistleblower shows that the overtime records of the deceased have been tampered with, but Station B claims that it has not been tampered with.
In addition, Wang Luobei also revealed that he had received a letter from a lawyer entrusted by station B, and the current news is that station B will formally prosecute later. However, it did not disclose the specific content of the lawyer’s letter.
Domestic News
Bilibili, Perfect World, TapTap and many other game companies lay off staff, and welcome adjustments after major expansion
Several game companies have reported layoffs recently. A few days ago, according to The Paper, a number of game companies including Station B, Perfect World, and Xinxin Network will have layoffs of different scales from the end of 2021 to the beginning of 2022.
According to the investor relations activity record sheet disclosed by Perfect World in January this year, the company will streamline and optimize the game team in 2021, and adjust some teams that are not in line with the company’s future general direction and tonality. Hundreds of people have been optimized in the fourth quarter of last year. Perfect World said that as of January this year, the company’s R&D team has about 4,000 people, and it may decline further in the future. According to the calculation of up to 1,000 people, it means that the company’s R&D team will lay off up to 25% of the staff.
According to the internal staff of Station B, between the end of last year and the beginning of this year, there were staff adjustments at Station B, among which the game department laid off nearly 20% of the staff, and the R&D team laid off a large number of people. The year-end bonus for some employees in the game department of station B is only half a month’s salary. In addition, there were market rumors at the end of January that TapTap’s parent company, Heart Network, was laying off employees, nearly one-third of the team. This news was officially responded by Huang Yimeng, CEO of Xinxin. He admitted on Twitter that there are indeed team adjustments, which are increased or decreased according to actual business needs, but “there is no so-called one-size-fits-all”.
The fresh graduates who hate Tencent are marked never to be hired?Response: Looking for a job is not hindered, about to join
On February 9, there were rumors that the employee had left Tencent and was marked “Never Hired” by the personnel department. Not only would he not be able to continue his employment at Tencent, but he would likely be rejected even if he joined other big Internet companies. In addition, there is also news that Tencent’s legal department will file a lawsuit against the employee on the grounds that it “damages the company’s image.”
On the evening of February 9, the fresh graduate responded: “I can’t confirm whether the news about whether I was marked as ‘never hired’ by HR is true. However, my job search has not been hindered, but many HR have come to take the initiative. contact me.”
According to the fresh graduate, he has found a new job and is about to enter. Tencent’s public relations director Zhang Jun also denied the aforementioned news about “never hire” and “lawsuit lawsuits” in the circle of friends: “Can news be cracked down? Now the cost of making rumors is too low.” At the same time, according to Tencent’s internal Sources told The Paper that Tencent had retained the employee before he left. (The Paper)
Xu Jiayin said that he could not repay his debts by selling assets at a low price: otherwise, it would be difficult to pay off the assets after they were sold
It was reported on February 9 that Evergrande recently held a mobilization meeting for the New Year’s construction of the 2022 Baotou Building. At the meeting, Xu Jiayin revealed that the target of handing over 70 million square meters and 600,000 units this year, which is equivalent to nearly 50% of all Evergrande’s guaranteed handover projects, will be completed within the year.
Xu Jiayin also responded to the issue of asset disposal that was concerned by the outside world, saying that “the company’s assets cannot be sold at a low price at any time, and attention must be paid to preventing loopholes in the process of asset disposal. You cannot rely on selling assets at a low price to pay off debts, otherwise the assets will be sold out at a low price. It’s hard to pay off the debt.”
Maimai: 60% of professionals are willing to give up year-end bonuses for good jobs
The 2022 Spring Recruitment Weather Vane Survey conducted by Maimai Talent Think Tank shows that more than 60% of the interviewed workplace workers are willing to give up the year-end bonus; This phenomenon may be related to the company’s general delay in year-end bonuses. Only half of the respondents said that year-end bonuses will be distributed before the Spring Festival. About 15% of the respondents said that the year-end bonus will not be issued until two months or more after the Spring Festival, and the year-end bonus has become a “mid-year” award; I know, it’s hard to say.” (Titanium Media)
Chinese autonomous driving company Tucson’s future Q4 revenue will grow 178%, less than a fraction of the loss
Chinese autonomous driving company TuSimple released its unaudited financial report for the fourth quarter of 2021 after the U.S. stock market closed today, with total revenue increasing by 178% year-on-year to $2 million and a quarter-on-quarter increase of 15%. Total 2021 revenue will increase 240% from the previous year to $6 million. Tucson’s fourth-quarter operating loss was $116 million, and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization were -$81 million. Net operating loss for 2021 was $411 million and adjusted EBITDA was -$279 million.
Operating cash expenses were $73 million in the fourth quarter of last year and $259 million for the full year 2021 due to continued investment in strategic growth and development activities. At the end of 2021, the cash hoard exceeded $1.3 billion.
Tucson Future expects full-year 2022 revenue to be in the range of $9 million to $11 million, stock-based compensation to be in the range of $155 million to $175 million, and purchases of property and equipment to be in the range of $30 million Between $40 million and a cash reserve of about $900 million at the end of 2022. (Phoenix Network Technology)
Li Shufu and his son enter private equity: leveraging the financial leverage of electric and intelligent vehicles
It is understood that a few days ago, Zhongqing Fund added new shareholders Li Shufu, Li Xingxing and Li Donghui, the legal representative was changed from Yu Keqiang to Feng Qingfeng, and the registered capital of the company increased to 16.67 million yuan. Among them, Li Donghui is the CEO and legal representative of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, and Feng Qingfeng is the senior vice president of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. He is also the CEO of Lotus Group. Li Xingxing is the son of Li Shufu.
According to the data, Zhongqing Fund was established in May 2021. The original legal representative, Yu Keqiang, worked for Everbright Securities, Qi Zhao Investment, Yuantong Express and other companies. Within less than a year of its establishment, Zhongqing Fund has been involved in many fields, and the core is still around the direction of new energy vehicles and automotive intelligent networking. (21st Century Business Herald)
international News
Apple launches ‘tap to pay’ in US, turning iPhone into a cashier terminal
On February 8, U.S. time, Apple announced plans to launch Tap to Pay on the iPhone, allowing merchants using Tap to Pay to seamlessly and securely accept Apple Pay, contactless Credit and debit cards and other digital wallets – no additional hardware or payment terminals required. (surging)
FF’s official response to the data fraud scandal: the short report is inaccurate, and over 14,000 bookings are free bookings
A few days ago, FF announced that a special committee composed of the company’s independent board of directors has completed an investigation into the previous inaccurate allegations of J Capital Research (Meichkin Investment Consulting Company) short-selling company. “The pre-orders released by the company include two types: charged pre-orders and free pre-orders. The company has collected more than 14,000 FF 91 pre-orders and has information on all pre-order users. This part is free pre-order data; 300 limited-edition FF 91 by invitation only, this part is a pre-order.” (Daily Economic News)
Samsung’s wage hike talks with union break down, or strike for first time in half a century
Recently, a number of South Korean media reported that Samsung management and the company’s labor union failed to reach an agreement on the salary issue in 2021, and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics was about to usher in its first worker strike in half a century. Due to the failure to reach a negotiation, the Samsung Electronics union worker representative has filed an arbitration with the Korean National Labor Relations Commission, a government agency under the Korean Ministry of Labor, at 3 pm on February 4. The Samsung Electronics union said in a statement that if an arbitration agreement cannot be reached within 10 days, the union will have the legal right to strike. This has never happened in Samsung’s nearly 53-year history. (surging)
ARM most likely to list on Nasdaq
Yesterday, NVIDIA (NVIDIA) and SoftBank Group jointly announced that the two sides have decided to terminate the previous acquisition of ARM transaction. After the deal was cancelled, SoftBank planned to take ARM public by March 2023. And SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said today that ARM may be listed on the Nasdaq in the United States, rather than the United Kingdom. Sun Zhengyi said: “As for the listing location of ARM, the United States is the market we are considering, most likely Nasdaq. But no matter where it is, the United States is the listing place for ARM we look forward to.” (Sina Technology)
Apple fined 5 million euros a week by Dutch antitrust agency
Recently, the Dutch Consumer and Market Authority (ACM) imposed a third fine of 5 million euros because the Apple App Store still failed to open the third-party payment system for Dutch dating software as required.
In recent years, the Dutch anti-monopoly agency has been investigating whether Apple has abused its dominant market position. Among them, the dating software developer has sued, focusing on investigating the monopoly of the app store’s in-app purchase payment system. The results of the investigation show that the ACM has issued an order requiring the Apple App Store to open third-party payments to all dating apps to bypass in-app purchase payment channels before January 15, 2022. Failure to rectify within the time limit will be subject to a weekly fine of 5 million euros. .
However, in the past week as of January 24, when the order was issued, Apple failed to comply with the ACM’s requirements to make rectifications and was slapped with its first fine of 5 million euros. Up to now, Apple has been fined 5 million euros each for three weeks, totaling 15 million euros, for continuing to fail to rectify as required. (21st Century Business Herald)
South Korean billionaires are collectively diving, and only Samsung Lee Jae-yong is left in the “10 trillion club”
According to South Korea’s “Asia Daily”, the survey shows that in the past month, the value of 31 heads of 33 major South Korean groups has shrunk, and only members of the “10 trillion won club” (about 60 billion yuan) are currently left. Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong alone.
According to data released by the Korea CXO Research Institute recently, as of the end of January this year, there were a total of 33 group leaders holding shares worth more than 100 billion won, with a total shareholding value of 55.4382 trillion won, which was evaporated from 64.3161 trillion won at the end of last year. 13.8%.
Compared with the end of last year, only KCC chairman Zheng Mongjin has an increase of more than 100 billion won in his worth. The stock value he holds is worth 662.8 billion won. Mainly due to the dazzling performance of KCC’s share price, the price per share rose from 315,000 won at the end of last year to 381,000 won at the end of January. The valuation of shares held by DB Group founder Kim Jun-ki rose 6.9 percent in one month to 405.1 billion won. (Interface News)
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