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Tencent PR head dismisses 50% layoff rumor as "a pure misunderstanding and falsehood"

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Tencent's PR director 张军 said on Weibo that recent online rumors of a 50% layoff at Tencent are "a pure misunderstanding and falsehood." He said management's remarks at the company's 28th-anniversary Linktime livestream about accelerating organizational change were not the same as the "cost-cutting and efficiency drive" of a few years ago: this time it is a proactive move for the AI era focused on boosting efficiency, with 50% of staff likened to an army holding the core business and 50% to a navy embracing the AI wave and exploring new space. He said the figure was largely a metaphor for reallocating company resources for the AI era and that the "50% layoff" claim is entirely untrue.

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Tencent PR Director Zhang Jun Responds to Rumors of 50% Layoffs: A Pure Misunderstanding and Rumor

IT Home, November 12 — Tencent's PR Director Zhang Jun posted on Weibo today, responding to recent online rumors that "Tencent is laying off 50% of its staff."

Zhang Jun said this is purely a misunderstanding and a rumor. He tried to reconstruct what happened: yesterday, during the Linktime online livestream for Tencent's 28th anniversary, Tencent management proactively expressed its determination to accelerate organizational change, and specifically noted that this is different from the "cost reduction and efficiency improvement" effort a few years ago.

Zhang Jun believes that the cost reduction and efficiency improvement a few years ago was relatively passive and leaned more toward "cost reduction"; this time it is a proactive move for the AI era, leaning more toward "efficiency improvement," inspiring teams to create new value and encouraging frontline colleagues to actively raise their hands and charge forward, while middle management needs to become flatter and more agile.

To respond to the new changes, internally there is a need to proactively think about new approaches and new battlefields. 50% of people, like the army, are responsible for defending their territory and doing existing core business well through efficiency improvements; the other 50%, like the navy, embrace the wave and explore AI Native and expand new development space.

He said this is a reallocation of company resources to adapt to the AI era, and is more of an analogy. This may also be the source of the misreading behind the so-called "50% layoffs" rumor; that claim is completely untrue.

IT Home note: AI Native means building with AI capabilities as the core from the very beginning of product design, rather than layering AI features onto existing products.

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