American Fortune Life
Chapter 863: Big Cleaning
“Isn't there a bit of a rush to lay off? ”
Amanda stood in front of Andy and helped him tidy his tie, some frowning.
“No massive layoffs, just using the excuse that the media business loses hundreds of millions of dollars a year to kick off some stumbling blocks, otherwise how to put our people in, only middle management is the cornerstone of an enterprise, OK, go, don't keep others waiting, this is your first new day, TV and radio I'll leave it to you, I'm sure you're familiar with the materials.
At a later meeting, it's up to you to offer to cancel stock information scrolling at the bottom of the screen and suggest adding an info box to the right of the screen. This is your chance to quickly build prestige. ”
Andy looked down at Amanda, close by, and looked up at his pretty face, breathing her nose and breathing out the scent of her mouth.
“Giggle, I know.” Amanda smiled and turned to look at herself in the gown mirror, looking left and right, and found nothing to leak, then nodded to Andy and the two left the office together.
The previously abandoned snack area on the 29th floor was reorganized into a meeting room where Andy, the vice president, assembled Bloomberg's media teams.
“ I know some people will find this kind of design odd, but the best news and website designs are always slightly uncomfortable when you see it at first sight. ”With black framed glasses, Pulaski, with a brown beard, showed everyone in the conference room about the new website page he and his suddenly valued Bloomberg subordinates had created overnight.
“The information density of the new website has been reduced considerably. This means that you might have to show 20 or more post titles on the front page, but you can only see less than 10 in the new version. With large image and large font titles, important information can be better highlighted. The reader is also not irritated by too much information.
At the same time, we cut off the comment area of the post page, because most of our users are now forwarding and commenting on social networks, and they will reap more users on those platforms.
Videos are also an important part of the revamping, and in the small window in the top right corner of each article, Bloomberg TV videos play silently and automatically, clicking to jump over and watch... ”
Andy looked at the irregular layout and the brilliant color scheme of the website page, and as people focused their eyes on his face, he nodded with a smile: "That's nice, that's bold and crazy, I love this layout, maybe we should add the waterfall presentation... ”
“Good idea, God, how could I forget that, BOSS, that's a great idea... ”
Andy is no stranger to the straightness and indifference of a technical house like Plesky to the character of office culture. After all, he's used to it in Silicon Valley, laughing and saying: "When the title comes with rich colors, it's actually easier to attract people's attention, and the effect of the big picture is even more so. The bold columns, along with the wider margins, also make each section more clearly distinguished. That's good, I like the layout. That's it, you go back and you start changing the layout of the website.
Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Business Weekly, Bloomberg Market, Bloomberg Pursuit Magazine and Bloomberg Radio & TV information are all integrated into the new website. The original Businessweek.com and Bloombergbusiness.com domains will also jump directly to the Bloomberg.com homepage. ”
Andy's tone made an unquestionable decision, staring around the conference room for a week, Justin Smith, the CEO of the media group, Amanda, the new head of radio and television, Laurie Hayes, the acting editor of Bloomberg News, Plesky, who had just stepped in, and Josh Terranquil, chief editor of business weekly, who was not his, and Bloomberg Market, two heads of Bloomberg Pursuit magazine, and, of course, Daniel Dorkotov, the CEO of Bloomberg Partnership Limited, who had never spoken.
The website was so stereotyped by Andy that it soon moved on to the next topic. Amanda, although the newly appointed director of Bloomberg's radio and television business, looked at her confidently and complacently, and Daniel Dokotov, CEO of Bloomberg Partnership, was really a little complicated.
His CEO, who runs the entire Bloomberg club, has been invisibly excluded from only 15% of the company's business, surprising that Andy Smith captured the most important Bloomberg news so quickly.
To be honest, Daniel would be very simple if he wanted to make a trip to Andy. After all, Bloomberg's most important source was the data terminals that he rented for sale, and if he wanted to, he could get stuck around the neck of these media teams. The problem was that he had no reason to do that. Without Michael Bloomberg's support, his professional manager dared to talk to Andy, the second largest shareholder, and Andy offered to fire him, and maybe Michael Bloomberg would refuse, but that's just maybe, what if he agreed?
That's silly. Nobody knows what the old fox is thinking. He often says ambiguous things. Let them guess. If they don't like it or make a mistake, he turns his face and doesn't recognize the dump pot. Then he kicks out of the company and works for the old guy. He's too tired.
“Daniel, I looked at the finances of the media business from 2002 to the present, and to be honest, I was a little speechless, losing hundreds of millions of dollars almost every year, and if it wasn't for the stunning profitability of the data terminal, I really couldn't believe it was going to last, from the very beginning, when there was only one news organization, to the present, the company had eight news organizations, all with different teams in the news line, television, radio, web, magazine and other fields.
What I find most incomprehensible is that all these news organizations were formed from scratch, completely abandoning the route of acquisition and annexation, which undoubtedly increases financial spending. ”
Daniel heard Justin Smith, CEO of the new media group, and shook his head and said with a grin: "Mr. Bloomberg is not interested in buying a company because it's not pure enough, he believes in the team he's building. ”
“Although our finances will be consolidated, it is not a long-term plan to lose so much. I looked at personnel data and the number of people in the various media teams is a little too large. Currently, the United States economy is affected by the subprime loan crisis, the market is depressed, and in order to reduce losses due to open source throttling, various departments will have to undergo a downsizing before the integration of the media group. ”
Justin smiled with a gentle smile on his face, but the words gave the people present a chilling cold, chilling feeling, and began to whisper. Although the dozen people present were important management, it would not burn them, but after all, it was a difficult decision to follow their people and decide who not to rule.
“Let me start by saying my opinion that layoffs are inevitable, that the entire Wall Street is being cut, and that there is no way, and that front-line journalists and editors will not move this time, 135 global offices, with the exception of journalists and editors, are being cut! ”
As Andy's voice went down, the whole conference room went down, especially Bloomberg Business Weekly, which was not part of Andy's vice presidential power, Bloomberg pursued the two editors of the magazine with a completely gloomy face, but they also knew that their arms could not be twisted. After all, their media team had been handed over to the young man in front of them by Michael Bloomberg, whose life and death were in the hands of Andy Smith.
Instead, Bloomberg market executives had nothing to worry about, and he knew that the redundancy gate would not fall on his department, as they were a bridge between the Bloomberg data terminal and the media group's information exchange and were not affiliated with the media group.
“This cut-off committee will conduct a business competency assessment screening, and a special panel will be set up shortly, all of you will be the cornerstones of Bloomberg Media Group's future, and we hope that you will cooperate with the work of the special panel! ”
Justin's smiling expression changed, his eyes sharply and his cold expression looked around at his new subordinates and said words of warning, even if they were comforting.
Soon the meeting was over, everyone left the conference room with an expression on their face, Andy watched the back of CEO Daniel's departure, just smiling slightly, knowing that the news of this layoff would soon be received by Michael Bloomberg, but to disappoint many people, the old guy would only be happy to see it, after all, as a Jew, he would prefer his company to make more money.