Staff Strike at Southern Baidu Branches

South Daily, 5/15/09

According to a sales manager at Chinese online search firm Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU), staff at the company's southern branches, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Dongguan, have effectively gone on strike over a new remuneration scheme. The employees claim that a new commission system calculated based on actual advertising click-through-rates and customer retention will effectively reduce the pay of front-line sales and service staff by half, and is really just a covert way to instigate a round of layoffs. The source stated that the changes were implemented without seeking suggestions from staff, and several executives at the branch companies who disagreed with the new measures were fired or demoted to front-line sales positions.

Keywords: online advertising HR Baidu BIDU Internet online search

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