High salary does not mean peace of mind.

Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “BOSS direct hire” (ID: bosszhipin), author: small footprint brother.

A few days ago, the news of the Financial Times’ HSBC Holdings’s layoffs of 10,000 people was triggered.

According to the current 236,600 employees of HSBC, the number of layoffs accounts for 4.2% of the total number of employees, which means that at least 4 of the 100 employees working at HSBC will enter the list of layoffs.

Since the second half of last year, the news of layoffs or shrinking of major companies has come out, and everyone is not surprised, but this time HSBC layoffs have been widely concerned, one is the scale of European assets. The largest bank, with a monthly profit of 88.6 billion yuan, is facing layoffs in companies that make so much money. The two layoffs have a big “bright spot”: they will focus on high-paying jobs.

High salary, has always been the job of the people, so today I will talk about this topic with you.

“Younger” changes have become the trend of Internet companies

I believe many people will think that high salary means peace of mind, and high salary is often inseparable from executives. Including myself, I used to think so, I thought that the management colleagues of the company did not have to worry about losing their jobs one day. But let’s look at a set of examples:

On October 8th, Li Yanhong stepped down as Baidu Cloud executive director. At the same time, Liu Hui stepped down as general manager and was replaced by Cui Shanshan, one of Baidu’s “Seven Musketeers”. In April, Baidu internally announced that Liu Hui had joined the “Baidu Executive Retirement Plan” and in May he stepped down as Baidu’s senior vice president of human resources. This is another move by Baidu to accelerate the process of young cadres.

Not only Baidu, Tencent and Ali, but many other big companies are also undergoing “young” changes either explicitly or implicitly.

In March of this year, news came out. At the end of 2018, Tencent started a new round of personnel optimization and abolished about 10% of middle management, including middle-level managers such as vice president, assistant general manager, general manager and deputy general manager. cadre.

It is said that Ma Huateng once raised a question at the general meeting in September 2018: “How many of the ten or two director-level cadres in Tencent, under the age of 30?” The answer is shocking – less than 10 people .

Last year, a piece of “Tencent has no dreams” was more like a bomb that exploded in the Internet circle. The article pointed out the problem of Tencent’s “aging of the elderly”.

And Alibaba is at the forefront, and began to “rejuvenate” as early as 2012.