On February 7, "Wang Luobei", a user certified as a workplace blogger on Weibo, said that according to a number of netizens, the leader of the Wuhan AI audit team of Station B was on duty during the New Year, and under the intensity of work from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. (12 hours), sudden cerebral hemorrhage died in the early morning of February 5.
Subsequently, Station B denied the employee's sudden death due to overtime in an internal letter, and said that there was no overtime in the week before the incident of the deceased, "After internal attendance verification, the employee commuted normally according to the day's work plan, working hours of 9:30-18:30, doing five days off and two." ”
According to the internal letter, on the afternoon of February 4, the partner of the company's content security center graphics and text review department, "Twilight Wood Heart", suddenly felt unwell at home and sought medical treatment urgently, and the relevant business supervisors, managers and HR rushed to the hospital to cooperate with the relevant procedures as soon as they learned of the situation, and notified the family of the condition, and the family then rushed to the hospital. At about 20:00 on the evening of the same day, the employee died of large-scale cerebral hemorrhage after ineffective rescue.
At present, Station B has set up a special team, which said that it is cooperating with the police and family members to deal with follow-up matters, and will go all out to do a good job in the comfort of relatives and related aftermath. However, on the Weibo platform, relatives of employees suspected of sudden death posted that after the incident, Station B did not send people to comfort and did not propose a follow-up treatment plan.
In this regard, CBN tried to understand the situation from Station B and suspected family members, but there was no response as of press time.
Internet companies have a large number of review needs due to the nature of content platforms. Just this past January, Station B has repeatedly stood on the cusp of public opinion due to content review issues, first there is a surveillance video suspected of cracking cameras in public places such as schools and hospitals, and then there has been a live broadcast of gynecological surgery by the B station account, which has been questioned whether the platform review is passed.
According to the B Station Hong Kong Stock Prospectus, by the end of 2020, the content screening team of Station B has about 2,400 employees, reviewing and monitoring the content uploaded to the platform 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They work around the clock to ensure that the tagged content identified by the screening system is reviewed and confirmed before publication.
The reporter searched on the recruitment website and found that the B station still has audit post related recruitment in Wuhan, the salary is between 4-6K, the job requirements indicate that there is a night shift, and the implementation of the three-shift mechanism, the morning shift 9:00-21:00, the evening shift 21:00-9:00, the middle shift 12:30-24:30, which means that each shift works for up to 12 hours.
The job recruitment description clearly mentions that "can accept the night shift arrangement, has a good ability to resist pressure", and said that this post has a night shift, do a break, mind not to vote.
After the sudden death of employees at Station B fermented, the work intensity of the audit post also received attention. A number of audit employees working in Tencent, Byte and other Internet factories broke the news on the Weibo platform that the audit post was "exchanging life for money", and due to long-term high-intensity overtime, their hearts, vision, and psychology were affected to varying degrees.
Gao Yan, who was previously an employee of ByteDance's audit post, told First Finance and Economics that the general auditors are in shifts, five shifts, and no fixed rest days. Although the content of the audit post is relatively simple, understanding the rules and implementing them, the requirements for the audit efficiency and audit quality of employees have become more and more stringent under the inner volume.
"Now that the audit efficiency has reached 1.1-1.2, it is likely to be in the lower ranking." Gao Yan said that he had previously had about 700 pieces of content per day in bytes, and under the performance competition, he audited 20% more on the basis of meeting the standard, and the audit efficiency reached 1.2 abounded.
In addition to audit efficiency, audit quality is also one of the assessment criteria. Byte set up a quality inspection department, responsible for the first-line audit department after the review of the content of the spot check, "if the sampling of 100, the wrong one, that is, to achieve a 99% pass rate, is a good indicator." "If you get a 97% pass rate, it belongs to the quality tail, Gao Yan told First Finance.
In addition, the audit post needs to constantly adapt to the new audit content and audit rules. The internal division and reorganization of the large factory are often divided and reorganized, and the team leader, audit content, audit rules, office location, etc. are often changed, and the cost of adaptation is very high for the auditors.
Even so, for young people who aspire to Internet companies, the audit post still has a strong appeal. "The benefits are OK, it sounds like a very good company, with face." Gao Yan said that the five insurances and one gold of the big factory are all purchased at a high proportion, and there are red envelopes for the New Year's Festival, and there are snacks, fruits and other supplies.
Audit posts are Internet entry and junior posts, the academic requirements are not high, most of them are college or undergraduate, most of the Internet factories will be set up in second- and third-tier cities to reduce costs. According to the information of the comprehensive recruitment website, the salary of the second-tier city factory audit post is between 4k-6k, and if the overtime is more and the performance is better, it may rise.
The promotion path of the audit post is generally to compete for the leader of the audit team, but Gao Yan revealed that in the past two years, the team leader has mostly recruited middle-level leaders, and it is difficult to promote vertically or horizontally.
At present, the employees of the audit post of the large factory are generally younger, "95 is a little bit large", the old employees are not as energetic as the new employees, and the health status is also frequently problematic. Previously, because he often stayed up late to work, Gao Yan had symptoms of nosebleeds and palpitations, and he said, "The audit is really dry." ”