In a recent video conference with office staff, JD.com founder Richard Liu added a warning into his pep talk: his company does not have room for anyone who wants work-life balance.
“We have employees who prefer to enjoy life, who put life first and work second — I can understand not wanting to work hard, everyone makes different choices . . . so I can only say that you are not our brother, you are a passer-by,” Liu told attendees, according to a recording posted on social media. “We should not be working together”.
Liu said the Chinese ecommerce group would step up efforts to weed out IT engineers who were not working hard and not delivering, while rewarding employees doing well.