Heytea lays off 30% of its employees for listing? Response: The normal optimization and adjustment of the year-end assessment

As the hottest internet red tea, Heytea has developed very rapidly in recent years. This morning, some media reported that Heytea carried out large-scale layoffs, involving 30% of employees and some departments being laid off.

In response, Xicha responded: The relevant rumors are false information, there is no major layoff, the adjustment and optimization of normal personnel years ago, and the employee year-end bonus is also issued normally.

It is worth noting that tea giant Nesher is listed in debt and is expected to have a net loss of hundreds of millions of yuan last year. If Xi Tea is what the outside world says, and the personnel is streamlined for the sake of listing, does this mean that the business status quo of the new milk tea is full of pressure?

Employee: I just want to lie flat and be cut

According to relevant media reports, after confirming with a number of Xicha employees, the main information includes:

1. The internal layoffs have been initiated years ago, and some of them will be laid off after the year, involving 30% of the employees overall. Some employees said that all employees did not have year-end bonuses, and another said that "deferred payment".

2. The information security department was all laid off, and the store development department was cut by 50%. Internal analysis believes that the development of Heytea has reached a bottleneck period, and the store department is no longer important.

3. The laid-off employees will be compensated by normal N+1, and they can also choose to transfer internally to other departments, such as technical posts to business posts.

4. The annual meeting has become the last straw that overwhelms the hopes of many employees. There is no meal, very little welfare, forced everyone to stay at 10 pm, and participated until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. On the live screen of the annual meeting, messages such as salary increases and year-end awards were spread all over the screen.

5. Also at the annual meeting, founder Nie Yunchen publicly commented that there were drawbacks in friendly business, which was regarded by employees as "lack of pattern".

In response to the reasons for this round of layoffs, employees have different opinions. A more common view is that Heytea has performed poorly in the past year, although it has made money but has negative growth in net profit, "may be forced by financial pressure to prepare for listing." Streamlining human resources can make the financial report look better." "Now everyone's state is lying flat and trying to be laid off," said a number of Xicha employees.

Heytea response: There is no large-scale layoff!

Subsequently, this news also attracted widespread attention from netizens.

In this regard, Xicha responded that the relevant rumors are false information, the company does not have the so-called large layoffs, and a small number of personnel adjusted to normal personnel adjustment and optimization based on year-end assessment. At the same time, the year-end bonuses of employees have also been issued to employees normally before the Spring Festival according to their performance.

In recent years, new tea drinks have become popular, attracting many entrepreneurs to join, among which Naixue's tea is the first to be listed, and Michelle Ice City is also on the way to listing. As the head brand of the market, after the completion of multiple rounds of financing, Heytea was also rumored to be about to IPO, but the official denied it. According to the report, this internal adjustment may also be to prepare for the pre-listing financial report data.

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