Cut 25000 jobs? Alibaba response
On the evening of November 19th, Alibaba clarified a rumor that "Alibaba is about to lay off 25000 employees". Yan Qiao, the head of public relations at Alibaba Group, refuted the rumor on his Moments, saying, "False! This is a rumor from May, and it was refuted at that time.
An Alibaba source said, "Rumors of layoffs have been circulating one after another, but what is fake is fake
It is understood that Alibaba has reported this rumor to the police.
In response to the frequent news of layoffs recently, Alibaba has refuted the rumor, saying, "Recently, rumors about layoffs in various businesses such as Taobao, Tmall, Alibaba Cloud, Cainiao, and local life have been circulating very strongly, but the rumors are just rumors. Our recruitment is currently underway in full swing
On May 25th, Alibaba Group announced on its official WeChat account that the six major business groups will need to recruit a total of 15000 new employees in 2023, of which over 3000 will be recruited from schools.
It is worth noting that due to the dissemination of false information such as "Alibaba is about to lay off employees! The scale is as high as 20%, and there may be 25000 or more people...", in September of this year, some online influencers publicly apologized to Alibaba on multiple platforms such as Sina Weibo, Today's Headlines, and Moments.
While actively clarifying and apologizing, Network V called on the media and self media accounts involved in the rumor to proactively delete relevant content and eliminate the impact of the rumor. Subsequently, several KOLs who had recently promoted the dissemination of this information clarified and apologized.
According to Alibaba's financial report for the second quarter of the 2024 fiscal year (as of September 30), Alibaba's revenue for that quarter was 224.79 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9%, and the market expected 224.096 billion yuan; The net profit of Non GAAP was 40.188 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19%.