Without your job, you are nothing!
After March 15, the production and sales of major producing areas and ceramic enterprises across the country have fully returned to normal. In 2021, the ceramic industry will still be difficult. All kinds of production costs have surged in the beginning of the year, and vicious competition among peers has intensified. If your boss has not laid you off and you can still receive full wages on time, please cherish your job and your boss. , because they silently shouldered everything...
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2021, the official WeChat account of "People's Daily" published an article "Be Kind to Your Unit", which aroused the excitement in the ceramic circle and resonated with the majority of ceramic people.
The article reads: "If you are the boss of the unit, then the unit is your land. Anyone can function without the unit, but you cannot do without the unit."
"Ceramic Information" noticed that many ceramic people were deeply moved by this article and forwarded it one after another. A ceramics person commented: "When you get your salary on time every month, you will never know what your boss is really going through? Insomnia, confusion, melancholy... Please be kind to your boss! Contentment will last long!" ”
Some ceramic people also commented: "Family is the support for family ties, and work is the support for finance. Treat the work unit well, it is good!"
Indeed, more than a year since the outbreak, 780 million people have gone into debt, hundreds of thousands of companies have gone bankrupt, millions of college students have lost their jobs, and most companies have suffered serious losses. The ceramic industry is no exception. Some ceramic companies have collapsed due to the epidemic, and there are also ceramic workers who have been laid off and unemployed at home... During the peak period of the epidemic, having a job and receiving wages even became a luxury.
Spring is coming after the epidemic! Although the negative impact of the epidemic has subsided in 2021, the survival challenges faced by ceramic companies are more complicated, such as rising production costs, bottom-line price wars among peers, continued intensification of environmental protection, and tepid sales... It may become the last straw for the enterprise. It is foreseeable that for a long time to come, the survival and development of a large number of ceramic enterprises and practitioners will still be full of challenges and uncertainties.
Therefore, in 2021, if your unit is still there and if you can still receive your monthly salary, please cherish it! Be thankful, be thankful.
Over 350 ceramic companies collapsed in three years
More than 80,000 ceramic workers lost their jobs and changed careers
According to data previously released by the China Building and Sanitary Ceramics Association, since 2018In recent years, an average of more than 100 ceramic companies have withdrawn from the ceramic industry every year. In the past three years, more than 350 ceramic companies have disappeared in the torrent of history.
At the same time, according to survey data from the "Long March of the Ceramics Industry", the number of building ceramics manufacturers nationwide has dropped sharply to 1,155 in 2020, a net decrease of 221 compared to 2017 (in the past three years, more than 350 ceramics factories have actually withdrawn, of which about After more than 100 ceramic factories closed down, they were revitalized through leasing, acquisition, etc.), and the proportion of enterprises eliminated reached 30%.
Among these companies that have withdrawn, there are many star companies and model companies that were once very popular in the local area.
The huge waves of shuffling came violently. These seemingly solid but actually dilapidated "corporate ships" sank quietly after several struggles, and countless "unemployed" ceramic practitioners dispersed with them.
Behind more than 350 ceramic companies, there are tens of thousands of ceramic practitioners and nearly 10,000 family livelihoods. Among these "unemployed people", some are small bosses who have invested all their wealth to fight against the odds, some are management backbones who have worked hard and are unable to make a comeback, there are also business elites who are home from all over the world, and there are also novices in the workplace who have just entered the society and are energetic and ignorant...
Many of them have done nothing wrong, and a small number of them are even very good. But if the company is gone, no matter how good the people are, they will be nothing.
So we saw that some of our former colleagues changed careers and started running Didi, some started real estate sales, some opened restaurants, some left their hometowns and moved to major production areas...
There are also ceramics people who scolded and complained about the dirty, messy, fake and busy ceramics industry when they were working. After changing careers, they plunged into the industry they had longed for. After many setbacks, they read all the social trends and went round and round. It didn’t take long for him to return to the industry he had spurned. In contrast, the ceramic industry is inclusive, dynamic, has low barriers to entry, and is full of opportunities.
Of course, there are also ceramic people who, because they have been away from this circle for too long, suddenly find that they can never come back!
"Ceramic Information" "Ceramic Industry Long March" survey data shows that the number of employees in ceramic construction enterprises nationwide in 2020 is 465,474, a decrease of 82,009 people compared with 2017. In just three years, more than 80,000 people have left ceramic companies. If you include related supporting industries such as ceramic machinery and equipment, chemical raw materials, OEM trade, and terminal dealers, the group of ceramic practitioners who have changed careers will be even larger.
At the same time, there are also a group of ceramic people who are anxious about being unemployed every day. They are very aware of the operating difficulties of the entire ceramic industry and their own companies, and they are afraid that they will be the next to lose their jobs... …
The “nightmare” of small and medium-sized ceramic enterprises in 2021:
Expansion of leading companies, skyrocketing costs and price wars
At the beginning of 2021, ceramic companies are facing a lot of cost pressure - raw material prices are rising surgingly, chemical materials, cartons, steel, cables, general workers' salaries, etc. are rising across the board, and some raw materials are even "priced one day". "Grandma Cobalt", "Iron Man", "Crazy Coal", "Doctor Copper"... gathered to wreak havoc in the world.
Some production areas are even more difficult. Production areas such as Linyi in Shandong are also facing rising fuel costs from the policy level. Guangdong ceramics companies only dared to produce bricks on a large scale after March 15...
"Everything has gone up, except for the price of ceramic tiles." Since the beginning of the new year, many ceramic companies have been helpless. The intensive and difficult-to-pass-on pressure of rising costs can only be left alone by ceramic companies and upstream ceramic machinery and chemical companies. Take responsibility and the pressure of survival is further highlighted.
In order to reduce costs, the ceramic industry has once again started the "small line to large line" model.
A polished tile line with a single daily production capacity of 65,000 ㎡, a porcelain tile line of 55,000 ㎡, a full-body marble tile line of 50,000 ㎡, and a mid-board line of 40,000 ㎡... appeared all over the country, constantly refreshing ceramic tiles. Single line capacity record.
With the continuous improvement of single-line production capacity, the total production capacity of 2,000 production lines in the future may be equivalent to the total production capacity of the current 3,000 production lines. The remaining 1,000 excess production lines will inevitably be eliminated, and behind these 1,000 production lines there are Connected with hundreds of ceramic companies and tens of thousands of practitioners.
“The equipment competition has begun, and we are desperately trying to change and expand lines, just to have one more chance of survival in the future.” A ceramics company boss said with emotion that all the money earned in the past few years has been reinvested in the business. Environmental protection, upgrading equipment, once the strategic decision-making failsWrong, all that is left is this pile of scrap metal.
On the other hand, the continued large-scale expansion and dimensionality reduction attacks by leading companies are an unavoidable "nightmare" for countless small and medium-sized ceramic companies. News of the expansion of leading ceramic companies such as Weimei, Mona Lisa, Dongpeng, Hongyu, New Pearl, and Oceano are coming one after another. The speed and intensity have reached the highest level in recent years. Each round of their expansion will inevitably be followed by dozens of companies. The price of business decline and closure.
What’s even more fatal is that the expansion of leading companies has just begun. Who will be the next company to close, and who will be the next person to lose their job? It could very well be you and your business.
It’s not easy for a business to survive
Ceramic people, please cherish your work
In 2021, and even in the next few years, life will be even more difficult for most ceramic companies. Since the beginning of the new year, the production lines of some ceramic factories have stopped pulsing and the factory doors have never been opened. Some ceramic companies have laid off a group of loyal old employees, and some practitioners have been reluctant to leave the industry they have dedicated for more than ten years. Work unit...
So, to all ceramic people: If you still have a stable job, please cherish it, complain less and do more; if you can receive a full salary on time every month, please cherish it, because your boss It's not much easier to live than you are.
If the company you work for is still alive, and if you see your boss struggling to keep the company running, please cherish your job and your boss more, complain less, and be more understanding.
For you, a company may be just a job, but for your boss, it may be your entire life.
You may not know that while you are waiting for your paycheck, your boss is signing the next IOU. It's hard for employees to understand that kind of deep anxiety.
Financial pressure, inventory backlog, shrinking profits, and intensified competition are all the bitterness of business owners! The company's rent has not been reduced, taxes have not been reduced or exempted, employees' salaries have to be paid, accounts payable cannot be delayed, and even bank loans have to be repaid with interest!
When a shipwreck capsizes, the most unlucky person is the captain. The crew can escape, but the captain is reluctant to part with his ship! Employees can quit and go home, but the boss can only grit his teeth and persist, because the company is home. He does not ask you to live or die with this ship, but only asks you to do your job well.
So, employees who can still get their salary every month in 2021 should thank your boss.
You don’t know that when you are playing on your mobile phone at work, your boss is anxious; you don’t know that when you are looking forward to getting paid, your boss is signing the next IOU; you don’t know that when you are dating When the time came, they were still working overtime to switch markets……
(The article is reproduced from Ceramic Information)
