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Chapter 3042 Discrimination in Outsourcing

There are many businesses on the Internet, and many things cannot be done by ourselves, so we will pick out some relatively simple tasks and hand them over to third-party companies.

Take AI data processing for example.

In the massive amount of data, you need to manually label each piece of data, classify the data, and then use the data to train the algorithm. This is a monotonous, repetitive, and low-tech job. Basically, you just need to know English and some basic data classification.

Zhou Buqi knew about this matter from Shen Xiangyang’s report to him from Ziweixing International.

Shen Xiangyang wants to outsource this type of data analysis and data processing to an Indian outsourcing company.

Zhou Buqi was quite surprised for a moment.

  Why not outsource to domestic teams? It can provide more job opportunities in China!

The answer is simple: saving money.

Outsourcing to India would cost 10 rupees per person per year, which is about $2000 per year. If it were in Silicon Valley, the annual salary would be $20! Even if it were outsourced to domestic employees, the annual salary would be around $2.

Moreover, India has a higher level of English penetration, stricter management, and is more suitable for doing similar work.

However, Zhou Buqi was not very clear about the outsourcing situation of Ziweixing.

I just thought that some tasks like content review and customer service would be outsourced.

It was suggested that Li Jun start a small company. In fact, it was very simple. He just needed to come to Ziweixing to take an outsourcing order and not expect to make a lot of money. It would be easy to start up.

Li Jun is different. "I don't want to take outsourcing orders."

Zhou Buqi asked: "What's wrong?"

Li Jun said: "Too tired!"

"Then take fewer orders." Zhou Buqi was a little puzzled. "Aren't you tired? Isn't it because the workload is too heavy? Take fewer orders, and you can earn less from the middleman's price difference. Wouldn't it be fine if the workload is less?"

"Physically, that's easy to deal with." Li Jun shook his head and sighed, "It's mainly mental fatigue, which is a kind of hardship on personality. I've seen too many outsourced people, and to be honest, it's not easy to deal with them!"

Zhou Buqi didn't quite understand the situation. "What do you mean?"

Li Jun said: "Outsourcing is discriminatory!"

Zhou Buqi asked: "What discrimination?"

Li Jun said: "Outsourced employees are equivalent to temporary workers. Let outsourced employees work with regular employees. No matter how capable an outsourced employee is, he or she must obey the work arrangements and dispatches of a regular employee. When working together, the identity of the outsourced employee will have limitations."

"No way?"

Zhou Buqi was shocked.

Li Jun looked at him strangely, then realized that he had said something wrong.

It turns out that the big boss doesn't know anything about this kind of thing.

Zhou Buqi asked: "Tell me in detail, what happened?"

Li Jun hesitated for a moment, then took out his phone and opened the Weishu work group. After browsing for a while, he saw a message and handed it to Zhou Buqi: "Look at this one, it's very representative."

Zhou Buqi took a look and immediately became angry.

This is a notice from HR.

  The words are full of discrimination and injustice!

"notify!"

"Outsourced! Outsourced personnel please note that you are an outsourced person, not a formal employee. Please do not steal the company's snacks casually."

"Pay attention to quality!"

Seeing this, Zhou Buqi was really shocked.

  I never thought that something like this would happen in my company!

Li Jun took the phone, flipped through it for a while, found another passage, and handed it over.

This is another micro-book notification from HR.

“@Everyone: I once again officially make one thing clear to all development managers and front-end architects: outsourced personnel come here to help us do our work.”

"1. They will not be converted to permanent employees, and we will not accept them as our formal employees. If we really do this, we will need to pay 12 months of service fees to the outsourcing company. I hope that when you hire people, you will be careful with your words and not make promises that you shouldn't make, so as to avoid unnecessary disputes."

"2. They are not our formal employees. If you feel that the cooperation is not working out, please inform me immediately and replace them immediately. Don't worry about not reporting because no one is using them. There are plenty of outsourced teams, so you don't have to accommodate them."

"3. When the outsourced colleagues come over, just give them a certain level of humanity in their daily work. There is no need to invest energy in management. Replace them if they cannot be ordered to do their job well. Don't hesitate, be decisive!" Zhou Buqi usually doesn't pay much attention to Ziweixing's business.

Because Ziweixing has been so successful, it has become an unshakable giant in the domestic market.

Therefore, his focus on Internet business is mainly on Ziweixing International.

  But I didn’t expect that such a cruel and unrealistic thing would happen in our country!

Ziweixing International also has outsourcing business, including many large companies in Silicon Valley. However, the outsourcing business of Silicon Valley giants is not in the domestic market of the United States, but in India, Africa, South America, Southeast Asia and other places with cheap labor to find outsourcing companies.

Separate from each other.

If they don't have contact with each other, there will be no "contrast" and it will be difficult to have discrimination in interpersonal relationships, at least the outsourcing party will not feel it.

It doesn’t work here in China.

This is too much!

Zhou Buqi could tell from these two HR notices that the so-called "outsourcing" was not outsourcing the relevant business at all, but inviting the outsourced team members to the company as temporary workers!

Having outsourced personnel and regular employees work together on a regular basis will lead to various differences in management, systems, company benefits, etc.

  This kind of differential treatment is employment discrimination!

This is different from the delivery guy from Meituan.

The delivery guys are also outsourced workers, but there is a fundamental difference here – the division between different circles.

In the delivery guys' circle, everyone is a delivery guy, and everyone is outsourced, with equal status. Some outsourced guys are not regular workers, and some delivery guys are temporary workers. When everyone gets along, there is a difference in status and treatment. Everyone's conditions are the same, and everyone interacts equally, and no one should discriminate against anyone.

But if outsourced workers are mixed with regular employees and work in the same place, this unfair status gap will be magnified. This is... it can be described as outrageous.

Zhou Buqi took a deep breath and asked, "How could this happen?"

Li Jun said: "All domestic counterparts do this."

"As far as I can remember, there weren't any in the first few years."

When Zhou Buqi was in charge of Ziweixing a few years ago, there was also outsourcing business, but that was to contract out part of the business to outside outsourcing companies, rather than inviting the outside outsourcing team into the company.

Li Jun said: "It's different now than before. In the past, a fresh graduate with an annual salary of 10 yuan was considered an excellent employee. Now the cost of employment is very high. Fresh graduates of average standard have an annual salary of 20 yuan, and the top ones have an annual salary of 30 yuan, which is more expensive than social recruitment."

This is the reverse effect in economics.

Many times, the reality is the opposite of what we perceive.

Is a salary increase really a good thing?

If your salary increases, it means you are not far from being unemployed.

Workers all hope for a wage increase, and in recent years, domestic workers have seen wage increases.

On the surface, a wage increase is certainly a good thing.

But there is the invisible force of the market economy behind it. Wages have increased, but jobs have been lost... More and more manufacturing factories have begun to move to Southeast Asia and India where labor costs are lower.

The workers got a pay raise, but lost their jobs.

  What to do if you lose your job?

In order to get a job, the workers can only take the initiative to downgrade themselves and fight for lower wages. As long as they can have a job, it is fine, even if it is humiliating work.

Overtime, struggler agreements, low wages, no benefits, no five social insurances and one housing fund... these are actually not serious. The most serious thing is that you can't find a job.

Being exploited by capitalists is indeed abominable.

However, what is more cruel than being exploited by capitalists is that you want to be exploited by capitalists, but the capitalists do not exploit you and simply do not give you job opportunities.

I just didn’t expect that in just a few years, this trend has spread to the Internet.

The reason why many outstanding young people can endure employment discrimination and accept the cruel and exploitative working model of outsourced jobs is mainly because exploitation is better than having no job.

Overall salaries in the Internet industry are rising sharply.

It looks crazy beautiful.

The situation behind this is actually that the threshold for formal employment has been greatly increased due to the sharp increase in wages, causing more people to fall into outsourced positions.

Zhou Buqi couldn't accept it!