Source of this article: Time Weekly Author: Yang Lingling
"More money is given, not talents also become talents" This is huawei founder Ren Zhengfei's concept of employment. In 2021, Huawei will spend more than 50 billion yuan in dividends for its shareholding employees, with a per capita dividend of more than 400,000 yuan.
Huawei is a private enterprise that is 100% owned by employees. Recently, Some Huawei employees released stock dividend data in the Voice of Hearts community, and it is expected to pay dividends of 1.58 yuan per share in 2021. On February 7, Huawei related people confirmed the news to the Times Weekly reporter.
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"The dividend prediction came out, and I was disappointed to think of paying taxes." But think about it for a moment, in such a harsh external environment, our company still has achieved such results, we have to give the company a thumbs up. A Huawei employee commented in the Voices community.
Sanctions continue, and Huawei is not easy. Huawei's rotating chairman Guo Ping disclosed that it expects annual sales revenue of about 634 billion yuan in 2021, down 29% year-on-year.
"For reasons that are well known, Huawei has experienced its toughest years since its inception in the past year, with sales revenue falling by nearly 30%." On February 7, Zhao Zhenying, a researcher at the National Engineering Laboratory of E-commerce Transaction Technology, told the Times Weekly reporter that Huawei has not fallen in the face of strong pressure, on the one hand, thanks to the support of the people of the whole country, on the other hand, it is the support of the corporate culture of "customer-centric, strivers-oriented", and insisting on stock dividends is the best interpretation of "strivers-oriented".
From 2011 to 2020, Huawei's dividend per share was 1.46 yuan, 1.41 yuan, 1.47 yuan, 1.90 yuan, 1.95 yuan, 1.53 yuan, 1.03 yuan, 1.05 yuan, 2.11 yuan, and 1.86 yuan, respectively.
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After the latest dividend plan was disclosed, some Huawei employees said, "The lowest and highest points of dividends have been experienced, and there is nothing to say about this year's dividends, continue to thank the company."
More than 50 billion yuan in dividends were taken out
On February 7, Huawei employee Li Jia (pseudonym) told the Times Weekly reporter that the salary of Huawei employees mainly includes three parts: salary, bonus and dividend. However, he has been employed at Huawei for more than two years and has not yet held shares, "generally only after 5 years of employment."
Back in 1990, Huawei first proposed employee stock ownership and implemented an employee stock ownership plan through a trade union. Since then, Huawei has implemented the reform of the equity incentive mechanism many times, and stock dividends have become an important source of income for employees.
According to reports, as of December 31, 2020, Huawei's total share capital was about 34.7575 billion shares, and the number of participants in the employee stock ownership plan was 121269, and the founder Ren Zhengfei was also involved, and its total capital contribution was equivalent to about 0.90% of the company's total share capital.
In 2020, Huawei's stock price was 7.85 yuan per share, and the dividend per share was 1.86 yuan. Some people close to Huawei told the media: "The past year (2021) is a year of large turnover of Huawei's personnel, many talents have joined Huawei, many people have left Huawei, Huawei has issued a lot of shares, and also repurchased a lot of shares. "Based on the dividend of 1.58 yuan per share, Huawei will take out more than 50 billion yuan to distribute red envelopes to employees in 2021."
In 2020, Huawei's expenditure on wages, salaries and other benefits reached 139.095 billion yuan, and the average compensation of Huawei employees reached 706,000 yuan based on 194,000 employees.
Li Jia told the Times Weekly reporter that Huawei releases the year-end award of the previous year in the middle of the year, and everyone's year-end award "has little to do with the company, mainly depending on the profitability of the department." The performance of Li Jia's department in 2021 is affected by the epidemic and sanctions, and is expected to decline slightly.
Rely on talent to achieve high-quality survival
Huawei's full financial data for 2021 has not yet been released. Huawei achieved sales of 455.8 billion yuan in the first three quarters of 2021, down 32% year-on-year. Guo Ping said that Huawei's overall operating results are in line with expectations, the To C business has been greatly affected, and the To B business has performed stably.
In response to external challenges, Guo Ping said in his 2022 New Year speech: "In the new year, we must produce more grain, strengthen the foundation, continue to invest in the future, and 'survive and survive with quality' by creating value for customers and partners." ”
Guo Ping said that strategically, Huawei insists on focusing on ICT infrastructure and intelligent terminals, while maintaining the advantages of the large platform, shortening the management chain, quickly meeting customer needs, and creating commercial and social value through the pilot operation of industrial subsidiaries and legions.
On October 29, 2021, Huawei held the inaugural meeting of the legion in Songshan Lake Park, and Ren Zhengfei and the company's leaders marched for more than 300 soldiers from the Coal Mine Corps, the Smart Highway Corps, the Customs and Port Corps, the Smart Photovoltaic Corps, and the Data Center Energy Corps.
In the absence of a loosening of the blockade, Huawei has also shifted its attention from hardware to the full-scenario software ecosystem, increasing investment in "Hongmeng + Euler" to demonstrate the company's vision for the next decade of the terminal market. "Only by reducing food and clothing can not achieve high-quality survival, adhere to strategic investment, strong self-will have a future." Guo Ping said.
Huawei is also continuing to attract outstanding talents from around the world. At the beginning of 2022, Fudan University officials revealed that Lin Tian, who studied in the School of Information Science and Engineering of the university, has completed the signing of a contract with Huawei, and after graduation, he will join Huawei's wireless products department and continue to deepen his cultivation in the field of 5G communications.
Not long before that, two post-00s Russian genius teenagers had just joined Huawei, they were Valeria Ryabchikova, 22, and 20-year-old Llya Khlyustov, both studying at Nizhny Novgorod State University, where they will work as senior engineers at Huawei's Novgorod Research Institute.
"Whether it is to survive or to seek development, talent is the most critical." In his speech at the R&D graduate recruitment forum, the former Zhengfei said that 2021-2022 is the most difficult two years for strategic research, and in the focused business areas, operations require a strong team, and there must be a sufficient level of troops to concentrate superior forces to win the "war of annihilation".