In January 27th, according to people familiar with the matter, after the India announced the permanent ban on the application of TikTok to short video tiktok, its parent byte beating has informed India staff that it is reducing the size of India team and retaining key jobs.

People familiar with the matter said bytedance claimed that it had no choice because the Indian government had not provided clear information on when the app would return to the country since it banned tiktok at the end of June last year.

"It is deeply regrettable that after supporting our more than 2000 employees in India for more than half a year, we have no choice but to reduce the number of employees," a tiktok spokesman said in a statement. We look forward to the opportunity to re launch tiktok and support hundreds of millions of users, artists, educators and creators in India. "

Vanessa Pappas, chief executive of tiktok, and Blake Chandlee, vice president of global business, wrote in a memorandum to Indian employees: "we initially hoped that this situation would be temporary and that we would be able to solve this problem quickly. Seven months later, however, we found that this was not the case. Many of you have been waiting patiently for this to happen for a long time, and there has been a lot of pressure. Thank you for your trust and support. "

They continued: "as you can imagine, it's not easy to make such a big decision. Over the past few months, our management team has been working tirelessly to avoid laying off anyone. We've cut back, and we're still paying for benefits. However, when our application still doesn't work, we can't responsibly continue to leave everyone behind. We are very aware of the impact of this decision on Indian employees, but we deeply regret it. "

After the ban, Indian employees were told to focus on other applications, such as the productivity suite lark, which are not blocked in India, people familiar with the matter said. In addition, it has stopped all marketing efforts in India to promote its other services in the country. "Although we don't know when we will be back online in India, we are confident in our resilience and hope to be back here in the future," papas and CHANDLEY wrote in the memo (small)

Source: Netease technology report, translated by Baidu