2023年5月24日

裁员是一次改革旨在准备阿里巴巴的快速增长的单位分拆并最终IPO(首次公开募股)。图片:路透社https://str更新。sg / iJXs北京——阿里巴巴集团(Alibaba Group Holding云部门已经开始的一轮裁员,减少员工7%,改革的一部分,旨在准备一旦快速增长的单位分拆和最终的首次公开发行(IPO)。中国最大的云服务已经开始通知受影响的员工,知情人士说。提供员工遣散费或转移到其他地区的阿里巴巴帝国,虽然这些都是没有保证的,一位知情人士说。这些举措旨在简化业务,阿里巴巴旨在充分开拓到一个单独的公司在一年之内,这位人士说。阿里巴巴云是最大的公司之一,将被创建在一个六方分裂的父母,加入其他单位如Cainiao物流部门,国际贸易在追求独立上市融资和潜力。首席执行官张勇上周概述了历史性的首次重组的细节。包括完全放弃控制的业务计划称为阿里巴巴云,怀有一个一度兴旺的操作可能超负荷公司Amazon Web服务的方式增长意味着Amazon.com。阿里巴巴的股价周二在纽约交易时段下跌0.7%。 Some analysts valued the business at upwards of US$30 billion (S$40.4 billion), a prime beneficiary of a post-ChatGPT upswell that depends on cloud resources to train next-generation artificial intelligence models. Alibaba picked the cloud unit as an early IPO candidate because of its more developed business model and customer profile. Mr Zhang has said the spin-off was intended to simplify the overall structure and respond to market needs. A standalone cloud platform could grow to some day even surpass Alibaba in size if it attracted the right external financing, he told analysts last week. China’s most valuable online commerce firm invested tens of billions over more than a decade in the business of hosting computing for corporations over the Internet. For years, it was among Alibaba’s proudest and most often-touted accomplishments, a business that outstripped rival offerings from Tencent Holdings and Baidu, grew more global in flavour than any other division, and spearheaded important in-house initiatives. But government scrutiny of cloud services operated by private firms intensified around 2020, when Beijing grew suspicious of privately owned repositories of sensitive and valuable data, triggering a now-infamous sweeping crackdown on the Internet sphere. Alibaba Cloud itself drew regulatory ire in 2021 for discovering then sharing a major software flaw before informing the authorities, and was then investigated in 2022 for its role in China’s largest known cyber-security data leak. The cloud division in recent years began to bleed market share to rivals including Huawei Technologies and state-run China Mobile. In fiscal 2022, it generated nearly US$12 billion of revenue for the company – 8 per cent of turnover. It was so important that in March, when Alibaba first unveiled its six-way break-up, Mr Zhang personally took the helm of what he called the Cloud Intelligence division – seemingly signalling it was destined for greater things. The “cloud business is relatively independent and different from other consumer facing business,” Jefferies analyst Thomas Chong wrote on Friday. They want to “introduce strategical investors who can help to grow the business”, he said. BLOOMBERG More On This Topic