Recently, a software and information technology service company has caused a lot of controversy over a system.
It is reported that this system can not only record employees’ online behavior, but also analyze employees’ turnover intention. Some netizens revealed that they were found and dismissed by the company’s system when submitting their resume.
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can also do turnover intention analysis
The beginning of this dispute can also be traced back to the layoff storm of Zhihu last week. Under the topic of large layoffs exposed to Zhihu, some netizens revealed that some enterprises have installed a behavior perception system, which can get the idea of employees’ job hopping in advance, and attached the map of the monitoring page.
It is reported that the system comes from the Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) platform. According to the official introduction, in addition to the functions of log center, bandwidth analysis, non shutdown detection analysis and leak tracing analysis, this set of behavior awareness system also has the functions of turnover intention analysis, office network online situation analysis and work efficiency.
The Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) community has also introduced that turnover intention analysis identifies employees with turnover intention in advance by identifying users’ online behavior, so as to help enterprise administrators find out in advance and reduce company losses.
In the specific page, the system lists the resignation risks of different employees, including “high risk”, “suspected”, “suspicious” and other levels. The number of employees visiting the recruitment website, applying for positions in the station, searching keywords and the number of resume delivery can be viewed, and even the resumes delivered by employees on the recruitment website can be previewed and downloaded.
Source: Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) official website
In addition, recently, some netizens broke the news on the social platform that after shielding the company’s resume, he was interviewed by the leader for layoffs, and the company knew that the reason for his resignation was the use of the detection system launched by Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) .
According to the Red Star capital Bureau, the salesperson of Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) once said that the cost of the system is paid annually, which is related to the network bandwidth and the number of terminals. Some cost 40000 in three years, and the most expensive can reach hundreds of thousands. In addition, mobile phone companies will be able to see the relevant content even if they install the system on their own phones tiktok WiFi.
know that the response has never been used
emergency off the shelf on the official website
After the news of “employee monitoring system” was exposed, it also quickly triggered a heated discussion. Netizens said that it was “too terrible” and “workers were too miserable” and questioned that employees’ personal privacy had been violated.
Under the storm of the monitoring system, on February 14, the relevant person in charge of Zhihu responded that for some media reports that “the company monitors the employee behavior perception system” and some news that Zhihu has used the system, Zhihu declared that it has never installed and used the behavior perception system mentioned on the Internet, and will not enable similar software tools in the future.
Zhihu said that the illegal collection of personal information security itself seriously deviates from Zhihu values and has always been firmly opposed to such systems.
The Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) aspect of the exposed research and development of the system also quickly removed the relevant product introduction from the official website. At present, the behavior perception system can not be retrieved. However, in the Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) community, you can still see the previous introduction and installation guidelines of the product.
According to the Red Star capital Bureau, the official website of Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) previously listed successful cases of cooperation between the system and China Everbright Bank Company Limited Co.Ltd(601818) Shenzhen Branch, Sina and East China Normal University, but after falling into dispute, the relevant cases were deleted. China Everbright Bank Company Limited Co.Ltd(601818) Shenzhen Branch responded that it did not carry out “such cooperation services” previously officially displayed with Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) .
According to public information, Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) is the full name of Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) . It was listed in May 2018. It is a product and service provider focusing on enterprise level network security, cloud computing and it infrastructure, basic network and Internet of things. Its whole network behavior management products have maintained the first market share in China for 12 consecutive years.
Tianyancha app shows that up to now, Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) has 285 software copyrights, including “online behavior audit system software”, “security virtualization software”, “behavior perception system software”, among which “behavior perception system software” was registered and approved in October 2017.
share price hit a new low in nearly a year
In terms of performance, according to the three quarterly report data previously released by Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) , the company’s revenue in the first three quarters was 4.376 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 34.88%; The net profit attributable to the parent company was -133 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 291.35%; Deduct non net profit of – 214 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 3184.95%.
According to its 2021 performance forecast, Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) 2021 annual performance is expected to decline in the same direction, of which the revenue may reach 6.707 billion yuan – 6.816 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 22.87% – 24.87%; The net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was 241 million yuan to 309 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 61.82% – 70.22%.
In terms of share price, on February 14, Sangfor Technologies Inc(300454) shares hit an intraday low of 142.66 yuan, a new low in nearly a year. As of the closing, each share was reported at 144.5 yuan, a decrease of more than 55% compared with the peak price of 321.73 yuan / share in the past year, and the latest market value was 60.1 billion yuan.
In addition, since this year, the stock has been rated by 6 institutions, including 3 “buy” rating, 2 “recommend” rating and 1 “outperform industry” rating. Data show that the target price of the stock has been gradually lowered in the past six months, and the latest consistent target price is 288.49 yuan.
