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Chapter 3209 Unfair Competition
He Yang said slowly: "Flexible adjustments to rest days and work days will definitely lead to a decline in the team's competitiveness. Accumulating all vacations together and going out for a month with pay will also increase the difficulty of managing the team."

"There is no need to copy the practices of foreign companies. We can make appropriate adjustments based on the actual situation. The bottom line is that Ziweixing must be at the forefront of domestic private enterprises and must not lose its role model image. This has already formed a brand. In the past few years, Ziweixing has been the most relaxed in the Internet industry, which has actually brought us huge benefits."

For Zhou Buqi, this is not only a corporate brand, but also a personal image.

He Yang agreed with this and nodded, "Well, Ziweixing has indeed demonstrated its competitiveness in recruitment. I also asked someone to count the comments and reputation on Weibo. Ziweixing's social image is much higher than its peers. BAT is starting to improve its management temperature, which may be related to this."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "It must be related. They are all learning from me."

He Yang sighed, "It's not easy to be at the forefront! It's easier to follow the trend! How many eyes are staring at us for the optimization and reform of this management system."

"A great company should be brave enough to take responsibility. Boss Ma always criticizes me, saying that I am unwilling to take on greater social responsibility. I really can't do anything about it. However, this responsibility should still be reflected within the company."

Zhou Buqi was actually under a lot of pressure.

Especially Boss Ma who gives him advice every day.

For example, a private entrepreneur in the civil aviation industry had a company with assets of 200 billion yuan, but it was bought out for 1 yuan, and the entrepreneur was arrested and imprisoned. The Entrepreneurs Club intervened, and many people spoke out, exerting pressure through various channels.

Logically speaking, this is what Zhou Buqi should do.

He was also a member of the private entrepreneur group, and the most influential one. If he had said something, that entrepreneur friend might have been released long ago. But he had never participated in such things. It was Lao Liu, Lao Ma, Wang Shi, Feng Lun and others who pushed forward.

If you are unwilling to get involved in external affairs, then you must set an example in the internal affairs of Ziwei Star.

He Yang understood this very well, and said, "I'm just worried that our business competitiveness will weaken."

"It is foreseeable that the team's competitiveness will weaken. However, it is not necessarily the case that the business' competitiveness will weaken. The Internet's ecosystem can be said to have completely destroyed the market economy in the traditional sense." Zhou Buqi is very confident about this. "The market is a fair competition, but with a strong ecosystem as a backing, it is no longer a fair competition."

He Yang asked: "How do you understand it?"

Zhou Buqi said: "I talked to Larry Page that time, and he expressed a similar view. The world's best elites of the times can be said to have broken many inherent concepts in the economic field by relying on the Internet. Just like the competition between WeChat and Qxin, both parties are on the same starting line and the competition is fair. But when Ali's Laiwang competes with WeChat, this is not fair competition, and Laiwang is at a huge market disadvantage."

He Yang said: "Because Ziweixing has a rich social industry ecosystem behind it, it can more effectively promote the development of WeChat. However, Alibaba's ecological structure is e-commerce, and it is difficult for Laiwang to benefit from their ecological system."

"Yes, this is not fair competition." Zhou Buqi made a simple analogy, "It's like two companies competing, one of which has a government-business relationship. The competition between WeChat and Alibaba is apparently a free market competition, without any interference from non-market factors. But in fact, the huge ecological system built by Ziweixing is the biggest interference factor, but it is the interference of market factors. Non-market factors can undermine fair competition, and market factors can also undermine fair competition."

Then he gave the example of Google.

Google’s global search share has reached 90%. If we understand this from the perspective of traditional economics, this is a complete monopoly!

But in fact, the Internet has a different understanding.

This has also led to a new definition of monopoly in the current economics community.

Google’s share is 90%, but it does not have a monopoly because it does not sit back and enjoy the fruits of others’ labor.

If Google Search is not updated and maintained for half a year, and if it does not make some technical innovations and upgrades, then a search engine that replaces Google will definitely appear, and Google's market share will definitely decline. Google has such a large market share because of its continuous efforts and continuous improvement.

People are afraid of monopolies and want to curb them because monopolies can cause the market to deteriorate.

Google did not make the market worse; on the contrary, it made the search market better and better.

If Google does not innovate or maintain its products for a long time, which leads to complaints from users, but no products replace Google, then this is a real monopoly, because Google has caused the market to deteriorate. This concept has been recognized worldwide.

This is the "green light" that the Internet has.

However, those economic experts and scholars obviously do not truly realize the core monopoly foundation of the Internet - the ecosystem.

This is a market factor.

But it is actually destroying fair competition in the market.

Normally, when two products compete, if I put in more effort than you and do better than you, I should be able to defeat you.

This was the understanding of market competition in the past.

It’s different now. Even if you pay more, have better technology, work harder, and have better products, you still can’t beat me because I have a strong ecosystem behind me. If you want to beat me, you may have to be ten or a hundred times better than me.

This is not fair market competition at all.

This has become a key factor in the global technology giants becoming increasingly powerful and difficult to defeat.

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It's not because of monopoly.

Rather, there is an invisible hand in the market that is taking sides.

Even if you do better and are more outstanding, it is difficult for you to beat me because I have a strong ecosystem behind me. Unless you are ten or twenty times better than me, and you have to work dozens of times harder than me, there is still a chance of survival.

But in fact, even if you are just a little bit better than me, you can make the market better by replacing me.

He Yang now fully understood Boss Zhou's philosophy.

This is the biggest confidence that enables him to boldly implement humane management within Ziweixing, increase salaries, increase benefits, give outsourced employees formal status, and even want to implement a flexible strategy for adjusting rest days and working days.

Because Ziweixing now has an absolute competitive advantage in the market.

Zhou Buqi said: "Even if there is a warm and affectionate attitude, it may make many people lazy and slack off, increase the complexity of management, and reduce the market competitiveness of the team. But we still have a strong ecological system behind us! No matter how good you are at UFC, if I go up with a pistol, can you still beat me? We need to strike a good balance, while ensuring the competitive advantage of the business, we must also constantly relax the constraints on employees. The atmosphere at this work is really too tense."

"If this is the case..." He Yang saw that the big boss had made up his mind. "The flexible adjustment of working days and rest days must also have certain limits. Employees can work on Saturdays and daily holidays, and then accumulate rest days. Sundays should not be included, and they must rest on this day. There is also the option of paid long vacations, which requires application. You can't take it whenever you want. It must be evenly divided into 12 months of the year, and it must cooperate with business and company management..."

"You should discuss this with the HR department. We have to roll out this employee benefit."

Zhou Buqi is also a young man, and he knows what young people of this age aspire to.

You are young only once, and when it’s gone it’s gone forever.

You can’t let your life be completely occupied by studies when you are young, and then be filled with work after you graduate.

Make time for life.

Otherwise we will be sorry for this generation.