Translation Results Requested Through Conyac Made Public

Why? Well, frankly, it’s a little hard to believe that all that’s happening is a “weeding out” of under-performing employees when whole branches are being closed, and employees are saying they’ve been fired for no reason. Fired employees only tell one side of the story, but with Groupon repeatedly refusing to comment on this — we did ask them specifically about it — most people are bound to conclude that these are, in fact, layoffs. Even if this is a strategy, it’s not well-designed for China. The result of these cuts has been that many in China’s industry now consider Groupon “tainted”, an unstable place to work. In the West that would be bad enough, but in China, the land of the iron rice bowl, it’s a whole lot worse. I expect that if Gaopeng.com ever wants to expand staff again, they’re going to have serious problems finding qualified employees.