DJI Denies Drone Maker Laid Off Half Its Staff, Says They’re Working From Home
Xu Wei
DATE:  Apr 09 2020
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
DJI Denies Drone Maker Laid Off Half Its Staff, Says They’re Working From Home DJI Denies Drone Maker Laid Off Half Its Staff, Says They’re Working From Home

(Yicai Global) April 9 -- China’s DJI Technology has rejected a self-media report that claimed theworld's biggestconsumer drone makerhas fired half of its workforce.

Half of DJI's employees, including those in the US, are working from home due to the Covid-19 epidemic, The Paper reported, citing a company insider.Recruitment is going on normally and some staff have already returned to the office, the person added.

DJI’s rebuttal comes after a Jinri Toutiao user wrote on the news platform yesterday, saying Shenzhen-based DJI was slashing at least 50 percent of its staff.

Chinese internet and tech companies such as JD.Com, Baidu, iQiyi and Bilibili set out plans to downsize their headcounts last year, while others denied redundancy rumors even before the outbreak of the new coronavirus shuttered the nation’s factories, offices and stores for weeks on end.

DJI has a 70 percent share of the world's consumer drone market, according to US market research agency IDC. It has more than 15,000 employees worldwide and its headquarters reopened on Feb. 10 after the virus-hit Chinese New Year holiday.

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