On April 27, according to Sanyan Finance, ComputerWorld, a veteran domestic IT newspaper, issued a notice saying that from now on, the company will suspend work and business, and all employees will be arranged to wait for work. Computerworld said in the notice that since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the company has continued to suffer serious losses and has been unable to maintain its operations.
According to the content of the notice, Computerworld has cut off cash flow at the beginning of this year, unable to pay employee wages and other operating expenses, and even employees' social security and provident fund fees are paid by the company through multi-party borrowing. The company's foreign affiliated units were frozen in accounts, deeply involved in disputes, and legal persons were stranded in foreign countries for a long time, which further aggravated the company's operational crisis. As for the employees who were owed wages, they basically applied to leave their jobs and initiated labor arbitration with the company, and individual employees also chose to complain to the labor inspection brigade.
The outbreak of the new crown epidemic has hit most companies hard. In order to cooperate with the prevention and control measures of various regions, the company could not organize the offline work, and most employees had to isolate at home. The company's income is gone, and it has to pay employees' salaries, social security, venue rent, etc., especially in the catering industry, which is mainly based on offline operation. Affected by the epidemic, many companies can not maintain high cost expenditures, and have stopped working and business, including some established restaurants and other enterprises.
Xiao Lei learned that ComputerWorld, founded in 1980, is one of the top ten newspapers in the country, and it is also the publication with the largest number of pages but low price in China so far. Known as "China's IT History, Half of the World", "Computerworld" has accompanied the growth of several generations of IT people, and has also witnessed the development and change of the ICT and IoT industries from scratch.
In addition to Computerworld, many paper newspapers have also been impacted by advanced technology. Now the Internet is very developed, people's way to obtain information and before has been very different, casually open the mobile phone to see the latest news, and smart devices can also carry video, audio of various media, has long been no need to read those slow updates of newspapers or magazines. Xiao Lei believes that the reason for dragging down "Computerworld" is not entirely because of the epidemic, and the progress of the times has accelerated the elimination of paper publications.
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Nowadays, with the rise of various new media, many newspapers have turned to Platforms such as WeChat public accounts and headlines to disseminate information, and the living space of newspapers with slow transformation is constantly being compressed. Computerworld officially stopped publishing paper publications in June 2021 and announced that it would provide industrial information services through platforms such as Xinhua, Renmin, and CCTV in the future, but unfortunately, the blow of the epidemic was too big to persist.
At present, many enterprises are still mired in losses and are close to closure. Xiao Lei sincerely hopes that companies in all industries can stick to it and survive this epidemic.