BEIJING, February 15 (TMTPOST)— Xiaomi became another Chinese tech giant which was recently caught up in the massive layoff rumor. Xiaomi was said to plan to reduce 10% of corporate staff, involving mobile, app store, technology and other related departments, and workers at the human resources department have begun to meet and notice the affected employees.

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Source: Visual China
Xiaomi has never had any layoffs since founded, and it now has more than job openings, an official of the company told The Paper. Xiaomi welcome excellent talents and at least in the short term, departments about businesses including the marketing department will not have any adjustment in workforce, the Chinese digital newspaper cited the person. Xiaomi’s insiders confirmed the job opening news to NetEase Tech, another Chinese news media outlet, and it was noted that former employees received Xiaomi’s messages which said the company always opens up to them and welcome their return. According to these insiders, Xiaomi don’t have any downsizing for any changes on operation and what it did is to dismiss some of unqualified employees who had poor performance.
Prior to Xiaomi’s comments on the rumor, Didi Chuxing also saw news about major layoff. The largest ride-hailing company in China has started to lay off 20% of staff and is set to affect almost all of the divisions across the company, from new ventures to travelling businesses including ridesharing and cargo service, Tencent’s news media outlet LatePost reported on Tuesday. The layoff was said to begin from the R-Lab, a unit in charge of its new venture which incubated the food delivery platform Didi Food. The technology team under the international food delivery business would be merged with the division for globalization when the unit dissolved, and Luo Wen, head of R-Lab would refocus on Didi’s own car unit.
【English|Xiaomi Dismisses Massive Layoff Rumor: We Have More Than 4000 Job Openings】Last week, Hey Tea, a pioneer of the most popular new trend in China’s tea beverage market, was said to reduce 30% of workforce, have liquidated a whole department and cut 50% of employees at a department for expansion of its retail stores as it was suffering growth bottleneck. The company then denied the relevant news. There was not any major layoff at all, and the adjustment involved a few people preceding the holiday was just normal optimization based on the year end performance appraisal, it responded to TMTPost.