Ding Lei’s internal bright card： the maximum window period of Gaohe is 3 months, and you will be resigned if you can’t save it.
After Gao Heguan announced the lockout, the founder Ding Lei appeared for the first time.
Just last night, the pilot of Gaohe appeared at the headquarters. At the brief communication meeting, he made a speech for about ten minutes, talking about the present situation and future of Gaohe.
The progress of core transmission is as follows:
First, apologize. Admit that you are old-fashioned in car-making thinking, and have never played Internet thinking, which has put the company and employees in trouble.
Second, stop.. Next, there will be a person in charge to maintain the basic operation of the company and win more time for self-help.
Third, the time window. At present, Gaohe still has a window of self-help, which lasts for about three months at the longest. External capital and enterprises have expressed their willingness and interest in Gaohe, and there is the possibility of investment or acquisition.
Fourth, suspended business.. Gaohe charging station, charging pile installation and App charging function (including free charging service) will temporarily stop service.
At the end of the communication meeting, a group photo was taken at the scene. Ding Lei cheered the on-site staff:
We are strong and we will win.
Gaohe’s latest Ding Lei communication meeting
Regarding the future of Gaohe, Ding Lei said that after the official announcement of the suspension, the company attracted a lot of attention, and some enterprises came to it and gave their investment and acquisition intentions.
But it also means that the time window left for the company is very short, only three months. Wu Qifeng, vice president of Chinese Express (Gaohe parent company), later added that "the shortest possible time is only one month".
When talking about the current situation of Gaohe, Ding Lei recalled the past and admitted that he had fallen into a misunderstanding, that is, to deal with the company’s crisis with the traditional management mode.
Some employees said that this is actually acknowledging that the traditional way of building a car can’t beat the "Internet".
Interestingly, the founders of Baiteng, Aichi and Weimar, who entered the crisis before, were all from traditional car companies.
Now Gao He also came to the edge of the cliff. How to rein in the cliff? Ding Lei handed the reins to the newly established "command group", led by Wu Qifeng. Wu was in charge of product planning and project management of Chinese Express. Like Ding Lei, he worked in SAIC-GM in his early years.
△ Wu Qifeng, Source: Professor of Playing Cars
The next task of the "command team" is mainly to ensure the basic operation of the company.
According to various sources, although Gao Heguan announced the suspension of production for six months, a small number of employees can still enter the company and its subordinate factories. Ding Lei appeared just to give a meeting to some employees who are still working.
Almost at the same time that Ding Lei appeared, Gao He also announced that some functions of the APP could still be used, but it could not be recharged.
Gaohe’s charging station and charging pile business were also suspended.
Generally speaking, although it has stopped, the "command team" still has a lot of work to do.
After the appointment of the "command group" was announced, the members of the group made a simple speech, and it is said that the participants took photos later.
Finally, the meeting ended with the slogan "We are strong and we will win".
The slogan shows that Gao He still has hope for the status quo, but Ding Lei also made the worst plan at the meeting:
If you can’t save it, you have to accept it.
It is still unknown how much investment and acquirers have come to us because of the high cooperation on the edge of the cliff.
But the door is really being squeezed by the HR of friends.
Wage social security becomes a mystery, and friend HR "grabs people"
After the shutdown of Gaohe, the whereabouts of personnel began to become a big problem, but at present, other car companies have already taken action.
Extreme recruiters took the lead and established a "seamless docking group", which soon became full.
A number of car companies quickly followed suit, and FAW-Volkswagen, Changan Mazda, Chery, Zero Run, Geely, Celeste, etc. have successively established recruitment docking groups.
On the job search platform, there is also a supervisor of Chinese Express who said that Tesla is also "targeting people", but no relevant news has been seen at present.
Not only car companies, but also suppliers such as Jidu, Shang Tang Jueying and Momenta are interested in accepting Gaohe employees.
Generally speaking, each company mainly provides technical posts, focusing on software intelligence, as well as some manufacturing posts, with fewer sales posts.
At present, the highest known annual salary can be given to 450 thousand yuan.
There are super-first-tier cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and jobs are also available in Chongqing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Chengdu and Changchun.
Since Gaohe is headquartered in Shanghai, more employees tend to stay in the local area, but some employees have no choice but to consider changing their workplace.
Gaohe employs more than 4,000 people, and friends’ "fishing for people" has alleviated the income anxiety of some employees.
It is reported that the current salary and social security of Gaohe have become a mystery.
It is uncertain whether the January salary that was postponed before can be paid at the promised time.
In the previous notice, it was uncertain whether the minimum monthly salary of 2680 yuan after March 18 could be paid.
△ Source: Pulse
Some employees also said that the social security in February has not been paid yet.
Income and social security are not guaranteed, which makes employees feel agitated, especially those who are pregnant.
At home, employees are in arrears with salary and social security, and there is still a debt problem outside.
The height of the cliff is like a boulder, which stirs up thousands of waves among employees, car owners and partners.
Partners struggled to collect debts, and Gaohe vehicles were sold off.
As early as last October, some suppliers blocked the gate of Gaohe to collect debts.
After Gaohe stopped, more creditors, including advertisers, came to the door.
Some suppliers feel that something is wrong because the amount is not large, but the arrears are long. Last year, they stopped cooperation with Gaohe. After seeing the news, I rushed to the Yancheng factory in Gaohe to block the door.
Others pay for themselves and help Gao He, but they can’t get the arrears.
Partners for debt collection, of course, the reply is very uniform:No money.
Dealers holding stock cars are still more comfortable, and some began to sell Hiphi X at half price as early as years ago after Gaohe extended their wages.
Some of them responded a little slowly, and only after the year did they get a discount in the circle of friends.
Some car owners are also selling used cars:
Interestingly, car owners are the most polarized stakeholders.
Some car owners tried to get out, while others supported Gaohe on the Internet and even wanted to join the company.
Finally, to sum up, the status quo after the shutdown of Gaohe:
Employees and partners can’t get money, and car owners are worried that there will be no after-sales guarantee in the future, which will have a huge and far-reaching impact.
After the shutdown of Gaohe, Li Xiang, the founder of LI, made a voice and suggested establishing a merger and acquisition system for car companies, and said:
There will be many new brands that will encounter management and capital problems.
At present, there is indeed a lack of players who are out of the car shuffling in the market, and there is a clear exit and aftermath mechanism.
After all, a car is different from other products. Once it lacks clear after-sales guarantee, it will not only be its own safety, but also the safety of other interactive subjects.
So from this dimension, Li Xiang’s appeal is really necessary.