Asus only cut the PC department in July, and now the commercial department is also going to be cut (Asus Zenfone 10 is their last phone)
Asus only cut the PC department in July, and now the commercial department is also going to be cut (Asus Zenfone 10 is their last phone)
華碩在 6 月時透過內部信向員工宣達將進行組織重整，雖然華碩一再強調不是要裁員，但 7 月時卻大砍 PC 部門員工，受影響的員工包括台灣與中國蘇州的團隊。不過華碩的裁員步調並沒有因此減慢，現在有知情人士向《科技新報》透露，「今日下午商用部門陸續有單位被整團叫到樓下，包括工程師、採購在內的單位直接被砍...
cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/907800
Here is the English translation
In June, ASUS announced to employees through an internal letter that it would carry out an organizational reorganization, and although ASUS repeatedly stressed that it was not going to lay off employees, in July it cut the staff of the PC department, affecting the employees in Taiwan and Suzhou, China. However, ASUS's layoffs have not slowed down, and now an informed source revealed to the "Science and Technology News" that "this afternoon, some units in the commercial sector were called downstairs one after another, and the units including engineers and procurement were directly cut in half."
According to the initial ASUS internal letter, the commercial computer team planned and went to the mobile phone product department; People familiar with the matter pointed out that some talents have just been merged into mobile phone units, but they have been laid off; Originally, ASUS stated that after the organizational reorganization, the human resources association had internal matchmaking vacancies, but in fact, human resources did not want to match for these employees, and had to find internal vacancies by themselves.
As for why some employees were merged into mobile phone units, but then laid off? The person familiar with the matter pointed out that the Asus mobile phone has two series, ROG and Zenfone, but now the latest Zenfone 10 will be the last generation of this series, and the Zenfone team will be merged into other departments in the future, or directly into the ROG team.
It is understood that this wave of commercial sector employees who were laid off by ASUS will be until next month.
Here is more context ASUS layoffs, commercial team/smartphone division merger, esports consolidation and personal computer team
Best case is that they mean the Zenfone line is dead and the rog still lives. But even then that still hurts.
This has since been clarified by ASUS as false information: https://press.asus.com/news/asus-zenfone-10-to-continue-production/
This is great news, at least for now. It increases the likelihood that Asus will provide software support for the Zenphone 10 for a normal lifecycle (e.g. 2 years)
Dang I was hoping for a Zenfone 11 to be my next phone
I liked the Zenphone but couldn't buy due to the poor support and missing NA bands.
Does this mean support for Zenfone 10 would be gone? I was hoping they'd fix the issue with the Auto-Focus and whatnot through software updates.