During a meeting that lasted around five minutes, all the members of ByteDance’s Talent Development team were told their positions were being eliminated.
The town hall was delivered in Mandarin with live English translation to the employees, who were based in offices around the world, according to one of the two former HR staff.According to an internal ByteDance memo circulated among HR leaders — the content of which was seen by CNBC — the employees whose positions were eliminated were allowed to apply for other jobs within the company. Fresh university graduates were guaranteed transfers.
Another employee who was affected but managed to transfer to another internal HR role said the total number of people hit by the layoffs was"closer to 100 than to 10." "All Talent Development employees were able to apply for different opportunities within the company, and most of the impacted employees have found new roles internally and have successfully transferred and integrated into new teams," a ByteDance spokesperson said.
"We initially hoped to narrow down the scope of TD work, and then assess and determine which elements are indeed scalable and applicable in the long run. However, because the team has already grown quite large, we have decided to no longer retain the Talent Development Center as many of its roles and functions are not in tune with our current development strategies," the note said.
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