HUAWEI Employees Must Be Chosen As A Champion Or A Laborer.

HUAWEI, which advocates "wolf culture", tries to keep its employees running.

"Striving" and "laborers". If your boss wants you to choose one of these two labels, what will you do?

Zhou Lin, 25, has recently met this multiple-choice question.

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In the two election, employees have to pay different prices. The "striver" has to promise to give up paid annual leave and non mandatory overtime pay, while ordinary workers can enjoy the benefits, but they may "be affected" in terms of assessment, promotion and stock allocation.

No one will know what the impact will be.

The application activities were conveyed only through oral level, without any explanation in black and white, nor uniform official notification.

Ren Zhengfei, 66, founded HUAWEI in 1988, when the capital was only 24 thousand yuan.

Ten years later, it became the largest communications equipment manufacturer in China.

In 2009, its global sales revenue amounted to 149 billion 100 million yuan, and its net profit amounted to 18 billion 300 million yuan.

At the HUAWEI base in Bantian, Shenzhen, which covers an area of about 1.3 square kilometers, tens of thousands of engineers are gathered, where almost any student from China's outstanding university can be found.

Here, 70% employees have master's or master's degrees, and there are thousands of doctoral and postdoctoral candidates.

HUAWEI's annual recruitment in Colleges and universities is known as "predatory Recruitment" by the outside world.

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Before the implementation of the new labor contract law in 2007, HUAWEI disputed the 1 billion to clean up its doors and launched 7000 employees to resign and compete again. This led to controversy, which was called HUAWEI's "resignation door" by public opinion.

However, this controversial practice did not cause any harm to HUAWEI. On the contrary, some other enterprises were envious of HUAWEI and thought that HUAWEI had solved the worries of enterprises before the introduction of the new law.

A middle-level cadre of HUAWEI said to the Southern Weekend reporter that the HUAWEI launched the "Declaration of the striving" activities, which is also the same consideration. Not long ago, some HUAWEI employees told the company that they could not enjoy the holidays.

Some of HUAWEI's staff have no annual leave.

"Through such an agreement, in the name of voluntary surrender of employees, the company can reasonably avoid labor laws and avoid future possible labor disputes."

He said.

HUAWEI, which advocates the "struggle culture", is not only the agreement itself, but most of the employees quietly accept this seemingly unreasonable agreement.

"It's not always good to sign, but it's not good without signing."

The campaign began more than four months ago.

In late August, a number of websites in China published a piece of HUAWEI's fight application agreement, which caused widespread controversy.

But shortly afterwards, the relevant websites of the major websites disappeared mysteriously.

However, HUAWEI's internal signing activities did not stop.

A month ago, Zhou Lin's Department held a weekly meeting, and the leader informed the staff about "superior spirit" in about a quarter of an hour.

According to the leader's oral communication, the application is deemed to become a "striving volunteer" voluntarily.

The contents of the application can be self prepared, and the format is not limited, but there is a saying in the middle: "I apply to become a target responsibility system employee working together with the company, voluntarily abandoning paid annual leave and non mandatory overtime pay."

Leaders did not clearly explain why they are "striving men" and "laborers". They simply said, "if you fail to hand in your applications, you can grasp them."

Before that, Zhou Lin had heard about it from other departments.

At first, the striving men were asked to give up their marriage leave and paternity leave, which caused a great rebound.

In the HUAWEI District of Tianya forum, some people call it "shitfighter" directly and fiercely, and call on their employees to rebel.

Followers are equally indignant.

Some people ask, holidays and bonuses are employees who have the right to enjoy the same thing at the same time. The company lets employees choose two. "It's like I have two gold bullion. After you grab it, ask me which one you want. Which one you want is the same. It's everything that belongs to me. What qualifications do you have to use power to make tools, system as a shield, and take away part of it with dignity?"

Although there is a lot of opposition on the Internet, in reality, most people choose to "silently accept".

In the Department of Zhou Lin, the leader finished in the morning, and everyone submitted the application in the evening.

The same situation also appears in other sectors.

Lin Ruo, who works in another department, found the so-called voluntary agreement "ridiculous", but he had to write an application.

His department leader once said to his subordinates that "signing is not necessarily good, but not signing will be no good."

"Since there is no such thing as fear, what is it?"

In fact, for most of HUAWEI's employees, paid annual leave and non mandatory overtime pay, the two most desirable benefits are mostly "nominal".

Lin Ruoshen worked in HUAWEI for three years, claiming that "working overtime is almost as normal as eating."

No overtime work is called "abnormal".

Here, 8 hours a day must be guaranteed.

When you get off at 12 noon, if someone hits card in the dining hall before 12: 05, that is, "early retirement". According to the company's regulations: demotion, salary reduction, and company wide notification.

But overtime is welcome and encouraged.

If employees are working overtime in the evening until half past eight, they can get free night snack; between 20 to 30 to 00: 30, the company will provide a large shuttle bus and send overtime workers; if it is later, the company still has 24 hours of car phone call, and the inside line is used. No matter what, there are free shuttle buses.

In the early days of HUAWEI's pioneering work, many people laid a mattress under the table, and simply stayed in the office for the night, so HUAWEI formed a famous "mattress culture".

This culture has continued to the present, but now it is not so exaggerated, mostly for lunch break. Now, every noon, HUAWEI's office area will turn off the lights, and the staff will start off with colorful mattresses to rest.

But working overtime until 89 o'clock in the evening is also a common occurrence.

Because HUAWEI recruits a large number of university graduates every year, these graduates just arrive at HUAWEI, and usually do not have any entertainment activities, so many people will work overtime automatically until half past eight.

Therefore, every time this time period, we can often see that some employees who just finished working overtime swam in the HUAWEI factory area, and slowly sat on the waiting company bus to return.

Lin Ruoshen said that such overtime, on the one hand, the work can not be done, on the other hand, is also under the pressure of colleagues, "this is like the college entrance examination, if all the students are learning, you play alone, not only the class teacher will say you are not serious, and you will feel backward."

But such overtime work is mostly "non mandatory overtime", that is, employees who have not been approved by the leadership are willing to work overtime voluntarily.

According to the regulations of HUAWEI, overtime work which has not been approved by the leader can not receive overtime payment (except for key projects, which requires the confirmation of the leader's approval).

So, in most people's concept, there is no overtime pay.

The same is true for paid annual leave.

According to the regulations on paid annual leave for employees, which began in 2008, employees can enjoy the benefits only if they work continuously for more than 1 years.

The number of days off depends on the length of service: 1 years less than 10 years, annual leave 5 days; 10 years less than 20 years, annual leave 10 days; 20 years of annual leave 15 days.

But the company stipulates that the last Saturday of every month (002291, stock bar) will have to work overtime voluntarily. Employees need to use this day to earn their annual paid leave, which is 12 months a year, that is, 12 days' vacation.

Even so, the 12 day paid annual leave is uncertain.

If you ask for a leave of absence, one day, you need to deduct one day from these 12 days.

"Since there is no such thing as fear, what is it?" Lin Ruoshen said.

Though he was extremely resistant to this, he felt that he gave up what he did not own, and there was nothing to be regrettable about it.

On the contrary, if you do not submit this application, you will be considered "not motivated". If you want to be influenced by dividends or rights issues, you will not be able to win.

The Southern Weekend reporter had called HUAWEI, but the operator told reporters to leave a message in HUAWEI's official website.

The Southern Weekend reporter called HUAWEI's switchboard again, asking for the vice president of human resources, but no one answered the phone.

"Encourage everyone to be Lei Feng, but never treat Lei Feng wrongfully".

As one of the thousands of Chinese enterprises, HUAWEI has gone through a typical Chinese path since its establishment in 1988: starting from the bottom of the value chain, taking advantage of price, and then strives to go up.

Its rise is called "a disaster of foreign multinational corporations" by the British economist.

Nowadays, almost every Chinese who wants to communicate with the outside world is inseparable from this company.

If you want to make a phone call, you need SPC switches, move your thumbs to send text messages without the phone prepaid card and base station service, and want to surf the Internet without a router.

In China, most of these products are produced by HUAWEI, but not everyone knows the name of HUAWEI.

The success of HUAWEI has always been a mystery.

Some analysts say that in the high-tech industry, because the industry follows Moore's law, the number of integrated circuits on IC chips will double every 18 months - the freshness of technology will be greatly shortened.

As a latecomer, the secret of HUAWEI's pursuit is nothing but "more than others".

In 2004, SIEMENS made an analysis. At that time, its European R & D personnel worked 1300 to 1400 hours a year, while HUAWEI was 2750 hours.

At the same time, HUAWEI's per capita R & D cost is only $25 thousand / year, while its European counterparts are 120 thousand -15 $/ year.

One of the most common explanations is that HUAWEI's culture is "wolf culture": fierce and agile, not playing the game according to common sense; once it is launched, it will give its opponent a fatal blow.

Ren Zhengfei does not seem to object to this statement. Inside HUAWEI, some of his slogans have been widely read, such as "bench sitting for ten years cold" and "burning dead birds are Phoenix".

He declared: "HUAWEI encourages everyone to become Lei Feng, but he will never treat Lei Feng wrongfully."

The fact seems to be the same. HUAWEI shares most of its personal benefits through stock and options.

According to HUAWEI's internal staff, in HUAWEI, a newly recruited college student can earn one hundred thousand yuan in the first year.

Since then, with the improvement of work performance, it will probably be able to buy shares in the company in about third years, and internal shares will receive dividends every year. If the funds are not enough, the company will help employees obtain bank loans.

For the core employees who have worked in HUAWEI for many years, bonuses and stock values have taken up a big income, and their wages are only "living expenses".

In the company's equity structure, Ren Zhengfei has only 1.42% shares, while the rest of the stock is held by the Shenzhen HUAWEI Klc Holdings Ltd trade union committee.

Material wealth makes many employees have a strong sense of identity with HUAWEI, including some strange policies it has implemented.

Many of them declined to be interviewed by reporters on the grounds that "there is nothing to say."

Most of the "struggle" agreement signed from the top down is understood, especially for the old employees who enjoy substantial stock returns.

But there are also costs behind success.

In April 28, 2006, Hu Xinyu, a 25 year old HUAWEI engineer, died of meningitis. Before that, he returned home only four times in 30 days. He spent time in a key research and development project, and spent the night in the mattress of the laboratory.

Before and after that, news of HUAWEI employees who had been stressed out for too much time came to press.

But Ren Zhengfei has not changed.

After the Hu Xinyu incident, he published the long text "Heaven reward and hard work" in the HUAWEI daily, warning that some people thought that the "mat culture" and the struggle culture formed during the pioneering period were not suitable. They could relax some and step by step, which was dangerous.

"We must persist in hard struggle for a long time, or else we will die."

(according to the request of the petitioners, Zhou Lin and Lin Ruoshen are alias).