Yesterday, news of organizational changes and personnel adjustments came out at Tencent's 28th anniversary internal staff meeting. On social media, there is news that “it is now rumored that Tencent will lay off 8,000 employees, and the 13 veterans have also been laid off”... In response, people close to Tencent said that during the Linktime live broadcast on Tencent's 28th anniversary, Tencent management took the initiative to express their determination to speed up organizational change. At the same time, it was specifically mentioned that this is not the same as “reducing costs and increasing efficiency” a few years ago. The previous one was relatively passive and focused more on “cost reduction”; this time it was an active attack for the AI era, more on “increasing efficiency”, stimulating the team to create new value and encouraging frontline colleagues to actively move forward. The middle management needed to be flatter and more sensitive. The person familiar with the matter mentioned above also said, “In order to cope with the new changes, we need to actively think about new ways of playing and new battlefields. 50% of people, like the Army, are responsible for protecting the land and doing a good job in existing core business through efficiency; the other 50% are like the Navy, embracing the wave, exploring AI Native, and expanding new development space. This is a rescheduling of the company's resources to adapt to the AI era, and it may also be the source of a misinterpretation of the so-called '50% layoff' rumor. This statement is completely untrue.”

Yesterday, news of organizational changes and personnel adjustments came out at Tencent's 28th anniversary internal staff meeting. On social media, there is news that “it is now rumored that Tencent will lay off 8,000 employees, and the 13 veterans have also been laid off”... In response, people close to Tencent said that during the Linktime live broadcast on Tencent's 28th anniversary, Tencent management took the initiative to express their determination to speed up organizational change. At the same time, it was specifically mentioned that this is not the same as “reducing costs and increasing efficiency” a few years ago. The previous one was relatively passive and focused more on “cost reduction”; this time it was an active attack for the AI era, more on “increasing efficiency”, stimulating the team to create new value and encouraging frontline colleagues to actively move forward. The middle management needed to be flatter and more sensitive. The person familiar with the matter mentioned above also said, “In order to cope with the new changes, we need to actively think about new ways of playing and new battlefields. 50% of people, like the Army, are responsible for protecting the land and doing a good job in existing core business through efficiency; the other 50% are like the Navy, embracing the wave, exploring AI Native, and expanding new development space. This is a rescheduling of the company's resources to adapt to the AI era, and it may also be the source of a misinterpretation of the so-called '50% layoff' rumor. This statement is completely untrue.”