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Chapter 2956: Civilization Shackles

Facebook has indeed had some troubles recently. The biggest trouble is of course what Tang Jie mentioned, the forced decoupling of Facebook Messenger and Facebook. According to the dissatisfaction expressed by many users, what was originally done by one App has now been forced to be divided into two parts.

This has led to the emergence of a 1-star party group in the Apple Store and Google Store.

Give these two products low scores.

The reason why I gave it 1 star is because the lowest star is 1.

However, there are other factors as well.

For example, the vigorous and growing feminist movement seemed to have spread to Silicon Valley overnight. Some organizations have conducted some gender surveys on large companies in Silicon Valley, not on the relationship between men and women, but on the ratio of men to women.

Google received the most negative reviews, with the proportion of female employees worldwide being only 29%.

The second is Facebook, where the proportion of female employees is 31%.

Ziweixing International is also on the list.

Now, Ziweixing International has 9270 employees worldwide, of which 2940 are women. The proportion of female employees is only 32%, which is only slightly better than Facebook.

This resulted in the three companies being widely criticized.

Some people have also discovered some secrets of running a technology company through such media reports.

Nowadays, Google, Facebook and Ziweixing International are the three most powerful Internet companies. Especially on the mobile side, these three Internet giants are the best technology giants in mobile development!

Such results...

It seems to be correlated with the proportion of female employees.

The fewer female employees there are, the easier it is to succeed.

Ziweixing International now has 22 executives at the level of group vice president and above. Among them, McKenna, the vice president of public relations, has paid attention to this issue. When reporting to the big boss, she mainly mentioned this point and hoped that the company would be able to reflect gender role preferences in the next recruitment.

Fairness and freedom are inherently contradictory to a certain extent.

Today's egalitarianism, whether it is racial equality or gender equality, will inevitably affect the company's freedom in selecting and employing people during the promotion process.

I hope the big boss will take it seriously.

Zhou Buqi was more cautious about this question. After reading the report she handed over, he asked, "What about Apple? The proportion of female employees at Apple is 46%? Is this data true?"

McKenna is a typical American woman. She said: "It's true. Apple, Microsoft and Amazon have all done a good job in this regard. Apple also had difficulties with its employee ratio in the early years. Later, Jobs established a big project called Apple Experience Store. In Apple's experience store, the sales and service staff are all women, which greatly improved the employee ratio within Apple."

“What about Microsoft?”

"Microsoft is similar, with a large number of sales positions. Sales jobs are mainly open to female employees."

"Mai Ni, there are some things we don't need to hide. In the field of scientific research and development, the vast majority of applicants in the market are men." Zhou Buqi was helpless about this. "I believe you can also feel that the company will never discriminate on the basis of gender in the recruitment process. But the general environment is like this. Men seem to prefer IT and technology research and development jobs more than women, just like the mathematical geniuses in this world must be men..."

I stopped talking halfway through.

A bit arbitrary.

But that's the truth.

Among the mathematicians with brilliant achievements in the past few hundred years, there has never been a woman. If it is said that it was caused by unfair education in ancient times, in recent decades, education has been equalized and women can receive the same mathematical education as men.

However, the result is that in the cutting-edge fields of mathematics and some outstanding mathematical achievements, those mathematicians are all men, and there has never been a female mathematical genius. No matter how much women want equal rights, it is impossible to achieve equal rights in such hard-core fields.

McKenna smiled and said, "I understand. However, I think the company can overcome this difficulty, just like Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon have all done it. The current trend of women's equality is becoming more and more intense. If we can handle this issue more properly, we can have a better social image and corporate brand." Zhou Buqi knew that she was right, "What good ideas do you have?"

McKenna said: "As you said, in the field of scientific and technological research and development, the proportion of women is indeed very low, which is an objective fact. But for some vulnerable groups, if you tell the objective facts, it is discrimination. You say that black people have dark skin and it is discrimination. You say that yellow people have small eyes and it is discrimination. You say that women are not good at math and it is discrimination. You say that disabled people have disabilities and it is discrimination. Many times, if we can actively cover up the truth for them, we will appear more civilized and friendly, and we can better protect their dignity."

Zhou Buqi cursed in his heart.

  Depend on!

This really feels like being discriminated against!

  Does the boss have small eyes?

Oh shit!

  If you weren't already in your forties and a white woman, I would definitely let you experience how powerful my place is!

Who do you look down on?

However, Zhou Buqi would not make a big deal out of such a small matter. He frowned slightly and asked, "How can we protect their dignity?"

McKenna said: "There are some positions that are very suitable for female workers. For example, sales, legal affairs, finance, office clerks, customer service and human resources are all very popular positions for women."

“Is our company not doing well?”

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised.

McKenna said softly, "It's good, but not the best. The company doesn't differentiate between men and women in job recruitment, but there are some unspoken rules to take care of minorities as much as possible. If we can give more preference to women in these positions, it will help balance the ratio of men to women in the company."

Zhou Buqi sighed, "Civilization is an invisible shackle."

McKenna smiled and said, “These are the values ​​and social responsibilities that a large company should have.”

Zhou Buqi pondered and said, "In fact, it would be best if there were one or two big projects, just like Apple's retail experience stores. This kind of offline store will provide many jobs, which can provide a large number of female employees for the company. In some key businesses, there should be as little influence of unspoken rules as possible, so that the capable can take the position, rather than destroying the competition law of survival of the fittest in the company in pursuit of a symbol of civilization."

McKenna shook her head, not quite agreeing. "Survival of the fittest is the law of the jungle, not a symbol of civilization in modern society."

"But for corporate competition, the mechanism of survival of the fittest is more effective, isn't it?" Zhou Buqi was a little disgusted with the communication with the American woman, but he had to remain calm, "Because market competition does not require civilization or courtesy, the market economy is the survival of the fittest."

McKenna raised her eyebrows, as if she had heard something, and asked suspiciously: "Butch, you...you don't agree with the idea of ​​civilized enterprises?"

Zhou Buqi said: "I agree, but we all have to admit that in the brutal market competition, whoever is more brutal often has the advantage. I hope that Ziweixing International will try its best to reduce the negative impact while pursuing civilization, so as to maintain the strong competitiveness of our company's core business."

To put it bluntly, it is to find one or two less important sectors.

Put all the female employees in to meet the "standard" ratio.

In this regard, Apple's strategy is very good.

  What a business genius Jobs is!

Apple has hundreds of experience stores and retail stores around the world. These hundreds of stores are actually Apple's marginal business, but they provide tens of thousands of jobs, most of which are minorities and women, which greatly satisfies Apple's requirements for political correctness.

Such offline retail business is separated from Apple’s core IT business.

This greatly reduces the damage that this "civilization" effect does to Apple's competitiveness.

If a strategy like McKenna's is adopted in many key departments as an unspoken rule of "women first", the coverage will be too wide, and the negative effect will expand from "points" to "lines" and then cover the entire "surface".

The damage to the company will be great.

Many American technology companies are often at a disadvantage when competing with domestic technology giants because they are too civilized. Employees are not allowed to work overtime, they must respect minorities, they must balance the ratio of men to women, they must respect creativity and not plagiarize, they must establish labor unions to protect the interests of employees, and they cannot fire employees at will...

Domestic technology companies are completely the opposite, they all pursue the wolf spirit.

Use barbarism to impact civilization.

Zhou Buqi was very worried that Ziweixing International would be assimilated by the social atmosphere and corporate management methods in the United States, thereby reducing the company's own market competitiveness.