Reporting by XinZhiyuan
Editor: Yuan Xie is sleepy
It is said that in the new wave of home office tide, Suntech agencies force home employees to capture faces/take screenshots every 5 minutes. As soon as the news came out, it was a hot topic on the workplace social platform.
Recently, it was revealed that a company had employees install computer monitoring software overnight in response to a request to work from home.
The software turns on the camera every 5 minutes and captures the face, and if it fails to capture several times, it will deduct the full performance, and the leader and HR will also sit together.
Due to the tight time requirements, employees did not even dare to go to the toilet during work, for fear of missing the capture.
In this regard, the poster news that was first reported contacted suntech, and the relevant staff said that there is currently communication within the company, and it is necessary to communicate and then reply.
Screenshots are not enough for 89 times to count absenteeism
Another netizen's revelation was even more accurate to capture the number of times 89 times, if it is not enough, the company will be absent from work.
In this way, Suntech employees need to work at least 7.4 hours continuously in front of the computer.
It seems that they have not exceeded 8 hours, but they do not even dare to go to the toilet, what should they do with lunch breaks and meals?
Do you have to take the machine to the toilet, and the system captures the picture of sitting on the toilet to work?
And the funny thing is that since Apple computers do not support "monitoring software", employees also need to become technicians.
Configure the virtual machine yourself and write it to the Windows system, and then install the software to help the company monitor itself.
And a less notable Weibo makes the story "complete".
At 21:33 on the evening of May 8, some netizens said that the news has asked to work from home, why the company has not yet released the notice of staying at home tomorrow.
Who would have thought that there would be an update in more than 10 minutes, and did not know what kind of inner activity this employee would have at that time.
(Pinned announcement of official account)
Some people followed the post in the breaking news, wondering why a large number of employees of Suntech did not rebound.
Another person made an uninteresting role in poking the bubble, answering the big truth: "What is the resistance, the companies and bosses who are going downhill, their minds are harshly criticizing employees, hurry up and run."
Considering the background of the era in which the education and training industry has been full of mourning since 2021 and the industry giant Yu Minhong has personally switched to live selling goods, it is rare for Suntech institutions to live to this day.
Of course, the emergence of various wolf methods in such struggling Chinese companies is not too unexpected.
Employers must not only self-hypnotize themselves, convince themselves that the situation is good and not small, but also persuade employees to work hard. Doing some strange things is not too reasonable.
Suntech institution is a veteran enterprise in China's education and training industry, founded in March 2003, claiming to be an Internet education company focusing on adult education and vocational education.
In June 2014, Suntech comprehensively transformed from offline training mode to Internet education model, and established an Internet online live broadcast platform.
In March 2018, Suntech submitted a listing application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and raised more than $300 million.
Subsequently, it was successfully listed in the United States, and at that time it was known as the largest chinese education company in the United States by market capitalization.
What is the new word "sleeping post"?
In the matter of monitoring employees, in fact, just search for the word "sleeping post", I believe that the door to the new world will suddenly open in front of your eyes.
Seeing this familiar image recognition frame, does the insider running the AI model have an inexplicable sense of déjà vu?
In fact, China's thriving machine learning and image recognition industry, used to produce "effective management" of workers to "sleep" and leave the post monitoring product kit, is no longer a day or two.
However, according to the manufacturer's product self-description, these "sleeping post" monitoring AI products are aimed at "banks, business halls, monitoring centers", "towers/tower cranes", "chemical workshops, steel workshops, mining mines, construction sites, bus driver fatigue driving, food production workshops, and 3C production workshops".
That is to say, such services have not been bullied into the employees of "China's largest education company in the United States in 2018", and people in these positions are estimated to have no time to brush Weibo and pulse, and there is no chance to be on the hot search.
As for the product principle, it is also very simple and grounded.
The low-end "sleeping post" monitoring AI only brushes the surveillance video and detects whether the human body image of the face in the camera has been detached for a long time.
Mature "sleeping post" monitoring AI, using deep learning/machine learning algorithms, analyze whether the human body images in the polygon analysis area of the shooting scene have been displaced within the specified time, and when the time limit is exceeded, the prompt is issued and recorded.
Is it really intelligent, without being very tired and troublesome, to eliminate the abominable role of the overseer in traditional literary and artistic works? Product manufacturers have also captured this point of sale: "replace the human eye, automatic recognition", "no personnel on duty / identification, no human operation".
Such product pipelines are also mature: "The front-end capture device uploads the video stream to the system server in real time; the AI reads the video stream in real time and analyzes it; the AI finds the sleeping post and leaving the post behavior to capture, save, and alert and prompt as needed." "Millisecond computing speed".
But even the middle-aged editor who has seen more of it, after seeing the product introduction of a "sleepy post" monitoring AI manufacturer, was shocked to the point of dropping his jaw.
The visual monitoring AI developed by this company can not only monitor the "sleeping post" and the fish toucher who left the post by detecting who is missing within the set time of a specific location, but also can use the method of detecting who is more within the set time of the specific location to monitor the fish touchers who chat in the post.
Broadening the mind, these AI settings can also be used to detect the length of staying in "wind release places, prison warehouses and other prohibited areas" and "specific areas such as toilets".
It's really a moment of empowerment: China's migrant workers touching fish, paid, prisoners letting go, in the eyes of objective AI algorithms, are actually the same kind of objects.
There's nothing wrong with it, it really makes sense, it really can't be refuted.
Countless complaints, HR that will change face
Having said that, the information about Suntech on the Internet is generally negative, except for official statements.
Among them, the cumulative number of complaints about Suntech institutions on the black cat complaint platform is as high as 27831. In the past 30 days, there have been more than 800 articles, involving refund difficulties, false publicity, and inducing consumption.
Through the search of the judgment document network, it can be found that there are as many as 71 cases involving "Suntech Institutions", including 20 contract disputes, 9 cases of fraud, and 7 cases of mandatory regulations.
In addition, Zhihu netizen @Strawberry Sweet Cookie Agnes also shared his interview experience in the first person.
HR before joining: treasure, about rice, about milk tea, we like to play with girls with high looks...
After reading this, the respondent had an impulse at that time, no matter how the Internet said that this institution was not good, it must go to see it first!
However, when it was said that he still wanted to think about it for a few days, the whole painting style changed, directly scaring people into crying.
HR: Temporary pigeon offers should not try interviews, the information will be blacklisted, and then it will not be able to re-enter the job.
However, according to its 2020 financial report, Suntech's sales staff exceeded 5,700, accounting for 77.8% of all employees. In contrast, there are only 1,068 teaching staff.
More sales in education companies, the quality of course products can be imagined. However, even the recruitment of employees and after-sales service is so domineering, it is still a bit surprising.
Suntech's financial report shows that the net income in the fourth quarter of 2021 was 589 million yuan, and the net profit reached a record high of 151 million yuan, achieving a third consecutive quarter of profitability. Among them, the net profit margin expanded to 25.6%, an increase of 38.2 percentage points year-on-year, an increase of 10.0 percentage points from the previous quarter.
At the same time, Suntech achieved a net income of 2.508 billion yuan in 2021, an increase of 13.8% year-on-year, and a net profit of 212 million yuan, declaring a full-year profit.
A company that still has a net loss of 431 million yuan in 2020 and a profit against the trend of industry collapse in 2021 may really have a secret that no one knows.
References: https://www.sohu.com/a/545438669_170520