Because of the interviewer's words, Musk directly chose to give up saving 10 billion. At the same time, these words also solved the doubts that have plagued Musk for many years, that is, he has never understood why Chinese people like to embarrass their own people so much, what is going on?
Tesla factory is one of the best treatment factories for employees in China, the basic salary of ordinary employees is as high as more than 5,000, and they can get 17 salaries every year (including 4 quarterly bonuses and a year-end bonus), you must know that the wage standard in Shanghai is less than 3,000 yuan. Tesla's factories have also become the most popular places for people to go to work.
In 2019, on a sunny afternoon, a person with many years of experience in human resource management came to apply for the position of HR director, which is very important, Musk personally participated in the interview, and the candidate made two suggestions to Musk, and promised to save tens of billions of yuan every year. His words aroused Musk's curiosity, so he asked him to say the suggestion, who expected that Musk listened to the candidate's two suggestions, and immediately became furious, and immediately said: "Tesla needs to save costs, but we are based on technological innovation and progress to save, not to deduct employee benefits, this is not Tesla's culture." ”
So, what kind of advice did the candidate say that made Musk so angry?
It turned out that the two pieces of advice given during the interview were:
First, reduce the base salary of employees, so that employees can only choose to work more overtime in order to earn more money. Tesla originally had 3 shifts, but if it does, it can become 2 shifts, which can save one-third of the grassroots employees, so that the same efficiency and output can reduce a lot of labor costs.
Second, reduce the recruitment of regular employees, use more labor dispatch workers, only need to pay part of the money to the third-party labor company, and all the rest of the matter is solved by the labor company, so that the employee does not need to pay five insurances and one housing fund, and the labor company will bear any accidents when the employee is working.
In fact, the suggestions put forward by this senior HR were not thought up by himself, which is a common practice in most factories in China. Companies like Foxconn, BYD and other companies are using labor dispatch workers, especially in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, basically no factory will directly recruit general workers, all of them are temporary workers, which can really save a lot of labor costs.
Musk has mentioned it to people many times, but he has never understood why China's human resources director wants to use such a method to deal with Chinese employeesShouldn't the HR department stand by the side of employees and seek more benefits for employees?
The initial production capacity of Tesla's electric vehicles is not high, the company has been listed for many years in a loss-making state, and Musk has been very painful until 2018, when Shanghai introduced Tesla and assisted in the establishment of Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory, the entire construction process of the Gigafactory from the start of construction to production took less than a year, in October 2019, the first batch of Tesla electric cars were produced from the Shanghai factory, and the first production was Model 3, From the first car to the 1 million car, Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory took just over 30 months, and from 1 million to 2 million, the factory took less than 13 months. At present, the localization rate of the industrial chain of Shanghai Gigafactory has exceeded 95%, 9999% of the employees are Chinese.
Today, Tesla's Shanghai factory is Tesla's largest factory in the world. During the construction of Tesla's Shanghai factory, Chinese workers were hard-working. Positive work attitude, so Musk is very moved, his initial idea is to give ordinary employees a basic salary of 10,000 yuan, but his idea was opposed by some people, and later changed to 5,500 yuan, and even if it is a basic salary of 5,500 yuan, it is far more than the level of most domestic companies, in many factories, the basic salary of technical personnel is not 5,000 yuan, so Tesla's Chinese factory has become a place where people want to work.
Faced with the suggestion that the applicant could save Tesla tens of billions of dollars in costs every year, Musk was unmoved, he directly rejected the candidate's suggestion, and let him leave, and said that Tesla would never admit such a person. Musk will always remember that in the most difficult time for Tesla, it was the hard work of Chinese employees who forgot to sleep and eat to make Tesla's Chinese factory produce output in a short time, which is simply a miracle in the eyes of the outside world.
Musk thinks so, saying that if the company makes money, the shareholders make money, and the employees don't improve their lives because of it, there is no point in such an achievement. For Musk, if a company gets to the point where it pursues profits at the expense of its employees, it is not far from bankruptcy.
Labor dispatch workers are really ruthless, using a bunch of cheap outsourced workers, five insurances and one housing fund do not have to pay, the salary is the average level of the local industry, but there is no lot of work at all, which is simply the exploitation of workers.
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