In response to the above speculation, major manufacturers have not responded positively
but there may be no reason for the groundless speculation. And HE Tuber coincidentally, Didi, which just experienced a "frightening night", also experienced a round of layoffs last year involving almost all departments such as product technology and ride-hailing teams. It is reported that the number of employees involved is about 3,000, and the proportion is as high as 25%.
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One thing is certain: senior technicians not only have guaranteed professional skills
and have more experience in handling on-site faults. Frequent outages are believed to have made major manufacturers realize the importance of improving infrastructure, increasing disaster recovery and preparedness plans, and cultivating high-end technical talents.
However, the impact of two consecutive years of cost reduction and efficiency improvement and several downtimes on its reputation, as well as the negative impact on customers and upstream and downstream partners in the industry chain, may be difficult to completely eliminate. It is still unknown whether major manufacturers will change their cost reduction and efficiency improvement policies as a result
3. In 2024, can cost reduction and efficiency improvement come to an end?
The impact of cost reduction and efficiency improvement by large manufacturers on customers and partners is multifaceted.
First of all, of course, downtime events seriously affect the daily operations of corporate customers, especially those small and medium-sized enterprises that do not have the financial resources to make their own disaster preparedness and emergency plans.
Official data shows that Alibaba Cloud has more than 4 million cooperative companies, the vast majority of which are small and medium-sized enterprises. Frequent downtime events have also made multi-cloud backup a hot topic. For example, SHEIN uses AWS and Azure services at the same time, and applications such as Zuoyebang and TT Voice deploy servers on at least two cloud service vendors. This is obviously not good news for Alibaba Cloud,
which is bent on competing for a larger market share and even resorts to price cuts.
Secondly, large companies continue to cut employee welfare expenses and communication budgets, which also makes downstream group meal suppliers, communication agencies, and media struggling.
Recently, a screenshot of what appears to be the Moments of Warwick, the co-founder and CEO of Interface News, has been circulated on the Internet. This well-known media person and the head of the country's leading news organization sincerely hopes that "brothers and sisters can increase their investment, no matter how much", because the task at the end of the year cannot be completed and the pressure is too great.
