Baidu, Best Employer came across “Blog Gate”

July 19th, 2006

Baidu’s lay off action was revealed recently by some medias in China.

After some mouth battles with medias like sohu, it looks like this issue will be make up by pro pr.

But some ex-employees of Baidu started to blog some inside information. Some even owned baidu’s stock option. Sure the option gone with the wind after the lay off.

Why a normal lay off can cause such reaction? Rumor said that more than one million dollar options gone away after that. Rumor also said this lay off action was a sudden and rush one, they didnt even have a chance or enough time to feed back. Well, it looks strange. A mature company will never implement lay-off in this way.

Baidu was named as the Best Employer of 2005 by CCTV. But this “Blog Gate” has the possibility to ruin this reputation. Articles from those blogs attracted a massive traffic at past days, and the influence was still growing, more and more complaints are coming soon.

Blog Gate to be continued.