Chapter 891: What If Qin Shiqing in Her Previous Life Discovered That Her Cheating Partner Was Huang Panpan?

In early June, New Era’s under-construction super headquarters was successfully topped out as expected. The three big bosses all attended the topping-out ceremony—after all, this was yet another milestone moment for the company.

On the day of the topping-out, quite a few media outlets ran reports on it.

Normally, there’s not much to say about a single building being topped out. But Su Zelin had previously hyped up the “super headquarters” concept, and ever since New Era appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, it had been riding high and drawing a lot of attention, so many media outlets took the initiative to report on it.

Some of them were also media guns-for-hire that Su Zelin had invited.

The goal was to tell everyone: look, we’re not just all talk. When we say we’re building a super headquarters, we actually do it—and we do it at a speed that’s anything but normal!

The topping-out ceremony was met with almost unanimous praise.

From the official start of construction to the topping out of the first headquarters building to be put into use, it only took seven months in total. Calling it “blindingly fast” wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

If you swapped in some other big corporation, no matter how deep its pockets, it wouldn’t be able to move this fast.

In half a year, they might still be stuck in the planning stage, or have only just broken ground.

Being able to move this quickly, aside from throwing in massive manpower and money, also came down to the fact that Su Zelin knew exactly what he was doing.

In his previous life, he’d already built his own company’s headquarters campus and personally participated in a lot of work including the design. It counted as a top-tier corporate HQ in the country, so all he had to do now was follow that playbook, only making minor adjustments based on differences in plot size and shape. Most of the changes were in the campus’s supporting facilities; the main building structures didn’t need major alterations, so it wasn’t that much trouble.

Precisely because of this, New Era was lightning-fast at producing design drawings,.

Su Zelin even drew lessons from the shortcomings of that previous headquarters—the parts he hadn’t been satisfied with—fixing and refining them, while adding more creative ideas, with hopes of taking things to the next level.

The employee dormitory buildings were topped out even sooner; the topping-out ceremony had already been held half a month earlier.

Of course, that topping-out also got its fair share of coverage.

As long as something could boost exposure and help raise the company’s profile, Su Zelin was never going to let it slip by.

Dingsheng Mansion, New Era headquarters.

In the office, the office slacker was browsing the news.

“New Century Digital’s Phase I HQ building successfully topped out, expected to be officially delivered by the end of July!”

“There’s a kind of speed called New Century Digital!”

“Shocking! A certain company tops out its headquarters building in just half a year!”

“…”

Some of these reports were serious and factual; others had extremely exaggerated headlines. The latter were the ones from the media guns-for-hire that Su Zelin had brought in.

Right now, this “shocking-style” clickbait was pretty good at grabbing netizens’ attention, though by later years it would show up so often that it became tacky and annoying.

The slacker was very satisfied with the publicity effect of this topping-out wave. New Era had once again brushed up its presence. The topic’s heat wasn’t exactly sky-high—most netizens didn’t care—but on talent-market forums, the reaction was quite strong.

Because besides pay, job seekers also care a lot about a company’s size, financial strength, and work-and-living environment.

This super headquarters of New Era’s had countless job seekers drooling.

Rumor had it that besides a brand-new, spacious, modern office building, it also had a garden-style campus, recreation and entertainment areas, self-service cafeterias…

If you were a sufficiently senior employee, you could even get a spot in the first batch of staff housing at a super low price. And if you weren’t senior enough, that was fine too—stay at New Era a few more years and you’d be a veteran, with a shot at the next round of staff housing, since this was a company that hadn’t been around all that long.

Beyond pay, New Era’s benefits also had huge appeal for job seekers, making it easier for the company to attract top talent.

Companies usually command four kinds of resources: material resources, capital resources, information resources, and human resources.

Among these, the last one is the most important for a company.

For example, in New Era’s growth trajectory, if you take away Su Zelin, you’re left with a completely different company.

Likewise, without Mr. Qiao, there might not have been that “fruit” company in later years.

And Lei Buzi is to “Big Rice” what he is.

A company doesn’t just need pillar talents; every department also needs outstanding people at the lower levels, in order to build a powerful team with strong competitiveness and execution that can conquer territory for the company’s development.

Su Zelin put a lot of emphasis on talent, which was why he was willing to do everything he could to keep Yan Qiuwen.

Outstanding talent is rare; top-tier talent is even more a matter of luck than anything else.

Because of the soon-to-launch “Thousand Counties Project,” the company’s structure and headcount would undoubtedly need further upgrading, and the topping out of the new headquarters staff housing and office building would both help with recruiting talent.

Every move the slacker made might look casual on the surface, but if you thought about it carefully, you’d see that they were all closely interlinked.

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Notifications from his personal QQ account were going off non-stop, almost all from the “Financial Management Class One Big Family” group chat.

Ever since Tencent rolled out QQ group chats, the group he’d created had been permanently lively, pinging from morning till night. Some classmates working at their units had a lot of free time—like Zeng Kaiping, who basically just turned on his computer when he clocked in and left it on till he clocked out without having to do much of anything—so this energetic young man was always especially active in the group.

As it got close to the end of the workday in the afternoon, the number of group messages would spike even more.

Future Hed Tycoon: “Ugh, so annoying. I have to go to work every single day, we only get eight days off a month, and after all the deductions for the five insurances and one housing fund, my salary doesn’t even hit four thousand. This crappy outfit we work for is really not a place fit for humans!”