Source Close to Tencent Denies Rumor of 50% Layoffs · TechNode
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Source close to Tencent denies rumor of 50% layoffs · TechNode
A person close to Tencent told Sina Tech on Thursday that a rumor the company planned to cut half its workforce was false. The claim circulated after Tencent’s 28th-anniversary all-hands meeting, where executives called for faster organizational changes as the company shifts resources toward AI. The person said the figure may have come from a […]
News of Tencent's layoffs recently went viral on the internet. Expressions such as “50% layoffs” and “8,000 layoffs” spread on social platforms, triggering a large number of netizens and Tencent employees to pour into the “circle of colleagues” discussions in the context of Chinese workplace social networking platforms. The platform collapsed for a while. Zhang Jun, director of public relations at Tencent, responded to the incident.
Tencent's Pony Ma says half of staff will move to AI-native work
Tencent employs about 100,000 people, so Ma's plan would move roughly 50,000 of them. A false claim that Tencent would lay off half its staff spread across Chinese social media after the speech, and the company has yet to say who moves or when.
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