The wave of Internet layoffs continues: Byte abolishes the "Talent Development Center" and streamlines the HR department

ByteDance, which previously started layoffs in many business lines such as commercialization, education, and games, chose to continue to "streamline" functional departments.

On December 14, the internal email of ByteDance obtained by the surging news reporter showed that ByteDance has recently abolished the talent development center team as a whole, and the existing team members are given priority for internal transfer, and if there is no suitable position, compensation or resignation is given.

The Talent Development Center refers to the training team under the human resources department, which is mainly responsible for the training of new employees and supplier management. In the internal email, ByteDance said that before making this decision, there were more discussions with relevant business colleagues, and the final adjustment was due to: first, it was found that the positioning of the existing team was disconnected from the company's needs; second, the skills and experience accumulated by the team were not in line with the company's demand direction for a period of time.

The internal email mentioned: "Some functions have meaning at a certain stage, but if they fail to adapt to the development of the company, they may become ineffective and need to be adjusted; some functions may be valuable in other companies, but they are out of touch with the needs of the company and should not be needed; but there are some long-term outputs are limited, but there are many problems with department management, or employees have long-term dissatisfaction, and they should reflect on whether there is a problem with the positioning of the function itself, resulting in a work that is not smooth." ”

"There are some departments and teams that work and become a game of 'passing the family', employees are busy, departments are idle, but they do not actually create a lot of value, not only waste the company's resources, but also create a lot of noise, waste other employees' time." It is also represented in internal messages.

It is understood that Byte plans to continue to streamline the HR department and adjust the configuration of functions and departments. "The growth and development of talents will still be an important topic for the company, and in the future, we must study how to do this well in a more pragmatic way, focus resources on things that are heavy on the foundation and high leverage, and the standards for doing things should be higher." ByteDance indicates.

The surging news reporter asked ByteDance for verification on this matter, and has not received a response as of press time.

It is worth noting that Liang Rubo, the new CEO of Byte, was once the CHO (Human Resources Director) of Byte, responsible for the company's human resources and management, etc., to promote ByteDance's organizational construction and talent development, and during his tenure as CHO, the number of ByteDance employees has increased significantly.

Previously, ByteDance HRBP A Shui also posted that since the end of 2018, Byte's HR has been in transformation, recruitment is no longer the focus of work, and it will spend a lot of energy on talent development and organizational culture. She also mentioned that Byte had previously paid great attention to the increase in the number of employees. "When I first recruited for internationalization, the hr head held a meeting and pointed to the area on the map and said, 'Look at how much DAU has risen, there is no one on the XX team there!'" I'll hurry up and go. I've never seen recruiting like growth. ”

Some industry insiders have analyzed that in the HR sector, the training industry is one of the indicators that reflect the overall environmental prosperity. "Once the performance is good, all departments will ask for more training, and if the performance is not good, the training department that cannot directly generate revenue will be laid off, just like ByteDance's behavior this time."

The abolition of the "Talent Development Center" may be a continuation of the wave of layoffs at the end of the year on the Internet.

Previously, some media reported that iQiyi was laying off employees, the proportion of layoffs was about 20% to 40%, and the layoff compensation had not yet been fully finalized, or issued according to N+1. Kuaishou insiders also told the surging news reporter that Kuaishou opened a new round of internal optimization and layoffs, and the commercialization teams in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen will complete the transformation before the end of the year, and some of the business lines will be cancelled.

Previously, ByteDance had confirmed to the surging news reporter that there were layoffs in commercialization, games, education and other business lines. In terms of commercialization, Byte has made a series of organizational structure and business scope adjustments to the commercialization team. Among them, the Wenzhou local direct operation center took the lead in withdrawing layoffs from the city; in terms of education, affected by the double reduction policy, Byte Education's Guagualong, Qingbei Online School, Xuelang, Hardware, Campus Cooperation and other businesses have begun to lay off employees; in terms of games, its Ohayoo platform has been exposed to lay off fresh graduates, of which 23 students have been transferred internally, 3 students are in internal coordination, and 4 students have not transferred and chose to leave.

Source: The Paper