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Chapter 3048 Benefits of Outsourcing

Zhou Buqi was a little angry. "It's just money. Even if snacks, drinks and the cafeteria are all free for outsourced employees, so what? How much will the cost increase?"

He Yang said in a deep voice: "The cost will be very high."

Zhou Buqi asked: "How big is it?"

"A few hundred million is considered a small amount." He Yang added, "Ziweixing is just trying to cooperate with outsourcing companies. There are currently 1200 outsourced personnel at the headquarters, and there are about 2000 nationwide, which is only one-tenth of the regular employees. However, according to our plan, in three years, the number of outsourced employees will reach 1:1 with regular employees. Huawei has 20 employees, and more than are outsourced. This is a normal ratio."

Zhou Buqi sighed, "Old He, don't you feel guilty about this?"

He Yang said: "There is nothing we can do about it. This is the norm and covers all walks of life. The largest outsourcing companies have tens of thousands of employees and have become listed companies."

"Ah! A listed company that drinks human blood!"

Zhou Buqi looked down upon this kind of human resource outsourcing business.

Those human resources outsourcing companies recruit people and then send them to cooperative companies like Ziweixing. If Ziweixing pays 16K for each employee, then the salary paid by the outsourcing company to the outsourced personnel is 8K. After taking into account part of the tax, social security and insurance expenses, the total cost reaches 14K. In the end, the outsourcing company can earn 2 yuan per month for each person.

1 people can earn 2 million in a month.

That’s more than 2 million a year.

It can really become a listed company.

This kind of business really makes people feel cold.

Ziweixing International also has outsourcing business and cooperates with India, Southeast Asia and Africa, but that is outsourcing of business.

It’s different here at Ziweixing, this is outsourcing of manpower, and what’s even more hateful is on-site outsourcing!

We have to let outsourced personnel come to Ziweixing, let them work with regular employees, and treat them differently... It saves money, but this is an extremely backward, barbaric and arrogant practice, and it is exploiting legal loopholes.

Don't even think about it in Silicon Valley.

Anyone who dares to do this, anyone who blatantly engages in workplace discrimination, a fine of billions is considered light.

He Yang cleared his throat and said, "That can't be said. In some aspects, outsourcing companies do fill the gaps in the industry and have great value. Human resource management is a very complex project. By using an outsourcing team, human resource costs can be directly converted into operating costs, which can greatly improve management efficiency."

Zhou Buqi shook his head. "I don't think this is a reason. Many large companies with tens of thousands of employees don't do management. Only the best people can do the best management. The best people in the country are in our company. Especially during campus recruitment, who among them, BAT and China Cool Alliance, can compete with us? These universities in the capital are our backyard! Is our management of human resources worse than that of outsourcing companies?"

He Yang said: "That's not how it works. The human resource management of outsourcing companies can be more flexible. Ziweixing is just one company, but outsourcing companies connect with more than a dozen partners. In many cases, outsourced employees can have more job opportunities than regular employees."

"what?"

"For example, if an employee of Ziweixing makes a mistake or has the worst performance for three consecutive quarters, he will be eliminated and fired. But is this really right? People change and have different mindsets at different times. Maybe an employee has a broken heart or encountered a crisis, which leads to a bad work state; or maybe his mentality is not mature enough, which leads to mistakes, and then he regrets it. After being fired, it is actually a loss for both parties."

"Yeah." Zhou Buqi nodded, thinking that this made sense. "Can outsourcing solve this problem?"

He Yang smiled and said, "Of course, outsourcing companies often have many partners. If an employee slacked off at work at Ziweixing and was fired for failing to meet performance targets, he would return to the outsourcing company after being dismissed from Ziweixing. The outsourcing company can then provide him with new opportunities, perhaps arranging him to work at Baidu. After experiencing failure at Ziweixing, he will most likely learn from his mistakes, cheer himself up, and become an excellent employee."

"Ah."

Zhou Buqi's face looked much better.

Indeed, existence has its reasons and it cannot be simply dismissed.

He Yang continued, "There is also the company's temperament. Maybe he just doesn't match Ziweixing's temperament, and is more compatible with Baidu. Another example is business matching. He may not be suitable for Weidian's business structure, but he can thrive in Baidu's business system. Joining an outsourcing company will give you more choices. If you become a formal employee of Ziweixing, it's a one-time deal. If you are fired, you have to find a new job. But in the current workplace, how can it be so easy to find a new job?"

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "From what you said, outsourced positions are more stable?" He Yang said, "From a vertical perspective, outsourced positions are very unstable, far less stable than regular employees. But from a horizontal perspective, outsourced positions do have a chance to turn around."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Old He, I have figured it out now. You are the one who promotes the outsourcing business in our company, right? I can't believe everything you say. If I really give a person a choice and ask him whether he wants to be a regular employee or an outsourced employee, I believe no one will choose to be an outsourced employee!"

He Yang pondered for a long time, and slowly said: "In fact, there is another more important reason. From the perspective of a company's positive progress, the outsourcing system will also have huge advantages. When I worked at Lenovo before, Lenovo was also one of the best technology giants in China. But now looking back... It's really far worse than Ziweixing. The system design is not good."

Zhou Buqi said: "Of course, we have the largest number of PhDs who studied in the United States and the largest number of graduates from Peking University and Tsinghua University. Only the best people can build the best company."

"No, no, it's about the bottom line." He Yang waved his hand. "You know, things like corporate culture are hard to improve, but easy to slide down. Look at those rotten companies. Even if they occupy the most social resources, even if they have administrative monopoly, they will still lose money. A very important reason is that the corporate culture is not good."

"What do you mean?"

“The more capable a person is, the more he or she wants to prove himself or herself with his or her abilities.”

"Yeah." Zhou Buqi nodded. "This is the atmosphere that a healthy company should have. Everyone should speak with their abilities and stop talking nonsense."

He Yang said: "If they are incompetent people who are willing to be screws, that's fine. But if they are incompetent but still want to climb up, that's very troublesome. They will form cliques, flatter, and use things beyond their abilities. This is a perverse trend. Once it appears, it is very likely to quickly pollute the entire company. I have seen this kind of thing too many times in my previous unit. In large Internet companies, this kind of thing does not exist, but in terms of proportion, it must be the least among all domestic companies."

Zhou Buqi was very curious, "Could it be related to outsourcing?"

"related!"

He Yang gave a firm answer.

Zhou Buqi was very interested and said, "Tell me about it."

He Yang said: "In the past, our job classification ranged from T1 to T11. Now it has been updated, and the sequence of formal employees is from T3 to T14... In addition, our outsourcing positions are mainly for developers... Well, the reason why there are no T1 and T2 is because our recruitment standards have been raised. We want to select the most capable people. Even if it is a campus recruit, he must meet the standards of a T3 senior engineer. We must ensure from the source of recruitment that the people we recruit are all technical experts. The stronger the technology, the lower the probability that he will use unconventional means to get promoted."

Zhou Buqi suddenly realized and said, "So the T1 and T2 levels are only for outsourced positions?"

He Yang smiled and said, "Yes, outsourcing. For outsourced personnel, their regularization should be restricted. With such a company system, even if some T1 and T2 personnel with poor abilities want to use some unconventional connections to climb up, it is impossible. They can't even be regularized, let alone promoted."

Ziweixing is a technology company, and most of the positions in the company's business lines are held by technical people, either transferring technology to products, technology to management, technology to marketing, technology to after-sales, or even technology to human resources.

The core group of employees are all technical people.

It is very difficult for non-technical people to move up.

Moreover, this is a technology company, and if a technical talent is promoted, everyone thinks it is normal. If a non-technical talent squeezes out a technical talent and gets promoted, it will often cause a lot of controversy, and everyone will look at such things with a magnifying glass to see if there is any trickery.

It can be said that everyone is supervising and watching.

  Therefore, it is very difficult for non-technical talents to climb up by using unconventional means!

It is easier for technical people to climb up by taking shortcuts.

T3 is Ziweixing's senior engineer sequence. If a fresh college graduate can reach this level, he can be said to be the best among his peers. There are very few of them, and they are the most technically proficient ones.

People with this level of ability are often obsessed with technology, very confident in their own technical level, and even a little arrogant. They will feel uncomfortable if they are asked to flatter, give gifts to leaders, or do something dirty to steal credit.

Among the regular employees, T3 is the group with the worst technical skills.

If even the group with the worst technical skills is like this, then the overall atmosphere of Ziweixing can be very positive, and it can greatly reduce the promotion opportunities based on non-ability factors in many inferior companies.

However, there will still be a lot of low-end technical jobs like screw-in-the-box in Ziweixing, and there is no need to waste T3’s effort on these trivial matters, so there will definitely be a need for some T1 and T2 junior and intermediate programmers.

Then we can only outsource it.