40-day long holiday! A number of cross-border companies have already had their holidays...

If you don't think about the future, you will have immediate worries! This Spring Festival: Will you go back to your hometown to celebrate the New Year?

As the Spring Festival approaches, the holiday arrangements of major cross-border e-commerce companies have been released one after another. It is reported that many companies' holiday arrangements closely follow the national policy. Do you think that the 7-day Spring Festival holiday is the standard for all cross-border e-commerce companies? Wrong. The editor learned that some companies directly extended a holiday of more than one month, which made many workers who have only 3 days of paid Spring Festival holiday envious: Why am I so miserable?

As cross-border e-commerce workers, we may have different holiday times, but we all have the same desire to go home. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, a large number of cross-border people are thinking every day: Will there be new cases tomorrow? Can I still go back to my hometown for the New Year this year?

As the capital of cross-border e-commerce, Shenzhen has always attracted a large number of dreamers. As the new year approaches, you are worried about whether you can go home for the New Year this year. How can you explain to your relatives and friends what kind of work you do and how much money you make? At the same time, classic thoughts also linger in your mind at the beginning of the new year: When can you get rid of singles and when you have a big order? Can you still do cross-border business after leaving Shenzhen? Is it better to work or go it alone?

The holiday schedules of major cross-border companies are released: some are happy while others are worried

I heard that recently, many people traveling across borders have already packed their bags and are waiting for the holiday to come. Are you, who can’t wait for the holiday, working on the surface but actually “playing dumb”?

As the Spring Festival holiday approaches, the holiday schedule of many cross-border e-commerce companies has been announced. According to the notice of the General Office of the State Council, the 2022 Spring Festival holiday adjustments will be from January 31, 2022 (Monday, New Year's Eve) to February 6 (Sunday, the sixth day of the first lunar month), a total of 7 days, with work on January 29 (Saturday) and January 30 (Sunday). Against this background, many cross-border e-commerce companies' Spring Festival holiday arrangements are based on this time, but many companies' Spring Festival holiday arrangements are not the same. The editor learned that for cross-border e-commerce companies with long holidays, employees have already embarked on their journey home.

An operator of a cross-border e-commerce company said that their artists and developers have been on holiday since January 1st, for a total of 40 days , while the operations staff started their holiday on January 18th, for a total of more than 20 days.

Coincidentally, a cross-border worker in Zhengzhou has also taken a vacation. "Our company was on holiday on January 14 and returned to work on February 10. In nearly 30 days, the goods had already been replenished. I replenished them directly until the beginning of April."

Such a long Spring Festival holiday is actually not unique to the above-mentioned companies.

A: I started my vacation after January 25th, went back to work on the 9th day of the first lunar month, and had 14 days off. I live in Ningbo, my boss is from Hunan, and it's not easy for outsiders to leave their hometown, so my boss is really nice.

B: I work in a factory-type cross-border e-commerce company in Shenzhen . The holiday is from January 20th to February 10th, a total of 21 days . It may be because of the factory shutdown , so our cross-border department benefited from it .

C: I live in Shanxi. I have a holiday on January 14th (the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month) , and go back to work on February 7th (the seventh day of the first lunar month) . The annual leave is more than 20 days .

The editor learned that these cross-border e-commerce companies have longer holidays. The reasons behind this are mainly concentrated on the logistics companies and factories going on holidays early, the company having no orders, and the company model.

"Our company mainly adopts the self-delivery model. The Spring Festival holiday has always been very early, and due to the recent epidemic, the company just took a holiday," said an operator in Shanxi. Most of the stores in Shanxi adopt the self-delivery model . Basically, they find freight forwarders to pack and ship the products twice, and all products do not go through their own hands . In this case, the company is actually not too busy, and the Spring Festival holiday each year will be relatively longer.

For many companies, there may be another explanation for why the company is not busy: the company’s order volume is too low.

"After Christmas, the number of orders began to drop sharply. After so many years, I think 2021 is the worst year." According to feedback from an Amazon employee, the store's sales volume dropped directly from an average of 40 orders per day to only 1 order while the ranking remained unchanged . There are many similar voices, "My friend works on the French site, and the orders have increased from 20 orders a day to 5 orders a day, and the ranking has not changed", "In the category I work on, the search volume of many words has dropped to the freezing point. The same is true for big words, which is almost the difference between 0 and 10,000 compared with previous years", "2022 has arrived, and the internal circulation has not only not disappeared, but has become even more intense"...

In 2021, volume is indeed the main theme of the Amazon platform, and the important reason behind this is the substantial increase in the number of players. Amazon said that in the past year, Chinese sellers have developed well on Amazon's global sites, and the number of new Chinese sellers has continued to maintain double-digit growth.

As the number of employees on Amazon increases, the price war becomes more intense. Some companies cannot bear it and their sales are getting worse and worse. Faced with the current situation of poor orders, although not all companies will take holidays early, it is undeniable that many companies will take holidays early due to poor orders in order to reduce labor costs and other expenses.

Of course, many cross-border e-commerce companies also follow the factory schedule for holiday schedules. It is reported that many factories now not only have their holidays in advance, but also have their holidays around March 2022.

As early as October 2021, the editor saw that many factories issued notices of Spring Festival holidays. In November and December, many factory workers still posted holiday notices of early shutdown of factories . Many factories may have been forced to take holidays early, but they affected the stocking of many cross-border e-commerce sellers. "Unforeseen circumstances, the cooperating factories took holidays early, our work was half-stagnant, and there was no point in staying in the company, so the company simply gave us a long holiday in advance." said a cross-border worker.

Cross-border logistics is also inseparable from holidays. The holiday arrangements of cross-border logistics companies have been released one after another, and many of them have very long Spring Festival holidays. "Our company's Spring Festival holiday is from January 25th to February 7th, a total of 14 days, and we will officially go back to work on February 8th (the eighth day of the first lunar month)." According to the holiday schedule issued by a freight forwarder, their company's cargo cut-off time is January 23, 2022 for the US special line, January 20, 2022 for the European special line, and January 21, 2022 for international express delivery. The cut-off time for each order is relatively early. After cross-border sellers prepare the goods in advance, there are actually not too many things to deal with later. Even if there are things to deal with, basically they can be handled with a computer. "For cross-border e-commerce, there is no big difference between going to work and not going to work."

In the eyes of the following people, the holiday arrangements of the above cross-border e-commerce companies are indeed enviable. "My company's annual leave cannot be taken on holidays, and the Spring Festival holiday is not as long as the National Day holiday." The Spring Festival holiday time has become the last straw that overwhelmed many workers, so they have chosen to run away and take their annual leave in advance.

The length of the vacation is a focus of concern for workers , and how to calculate their wages during the vacation is also a key issue they are concerned about.

According to legal regulations, the seven-day Spring Festival holiday is paid. Generally speaking, the holiday remuneration of cross-border e-commerce companies follows the policy:

A: The holiday starts on the 28th and work starts on the 7th , a total of 10 days off , seven of which are paid .

B: I live in Shenzhen. I have 15 days off for the Chinese New Year, 8 of which are without basic salary.

C: We have a total of 16 days off, and like you, 7 days of pay.

Of course, there are also some cross-border e-commerce companies that not only have longer holidays, but also allow employees to take full paid leave.

Operation A reported that their company is a small company in Shenzhen, and they have 16 days off from January 23 to February 7. No make-up work or deduction of wages, paid leave, provided that they take their computers home to work.

Operation B also said that they did not adjust the rest days, make up the work hours, or deduct wages, and the holiday was more than 20 days . "This year we have a few days less than last year. Last year we had a full month off."

Regarding the length of vacation time and salary calculation, each company will have different calculation standards based on its own actual situation. What is the situation in your company? Welcome to leave a message to discuss.

Dear workers: Are you going home for the New Year this year?

As the end of the year approaches, the outbreak of the epidemic has forced many people to be quarantined at home. Now, even if many workers have extra-long holidays, they feel a faint sadness in their minds because they cannot go home freely .

"Yesterday I said in the company that we would have a holiday after this week. Unlike previous years, the employees did not seem very happy. It turns out that most people are not going home for the New Year. What they are most worried about is being quarantined as soon as they get home. If they are quarantined for 14 days, the entire holiday will be ruined." said the boss of a cross-border e-commerce company.

The editor learned that many cross-border migrant workers who were working abroad gave up going home due to the epidemic:

A: I won’t go back this year. Shanghai is still under the star system, so it’s not convenient to move around freely if I go back.

B: I am in Zhejiang and originally wanted to bring my family from Shenzhen over to celebrate the New Year, but I was afraid that the situation might change and we would be quarantined, so I had to give up.

C: My hometown is Guangxi. I won’t go back for the New Year this year. It’s too troublesome!

Judging from everyone's feedback, migrant workers from all over the world are struggling over whether to go home. Shenzhen, as the capital of cross-border e-commerce, has gathered a large number of dreamers, and the discussion about the epidemic and going home is naturally more heated. It is reported that the current situation of cross-border e-commerce workers in Shenzhen is as follows:

Pack your bags and go to work, and be prepared to be isolated in the company;

Pack up your computer and leave work, and prepare for home quarantine.

Recently, Shenzhen cross-border e-commerce workers have been thinking about:

How to make money;

Can I still go home for the Spring Festival?

"Recently, every time I go out, I always bring a computer, a charger, a down jacket, pajamas, compressed biscuits... No one knows if one day I will be suddenly quarantined somewhere." An operator of a cross-border e-commerce company in Shenzhen said that in the face of the sudden epidemic at the end of the year, he has planned not to go home for the New Year this year.

According to media reports, it is predicted that the number of citizens staying in Shenzhen for the New Year this year will reach more than 18 million, twice as many as last year. How many of them are engaged in cross-border e-commerce exports? Cross-border looks at China, China looks at Guangdong, Guangdong looks at Shenzhen. Shenzhen Customs data shows that in the first half of 2021, the value of cross-border e-commerce goods supervised by Shenzhen Customs exceeded 100 billion yuan, which has exceeded the total amount of last year and continues to lead the country. Tianyancha shows that in 2021, there are more than 600,000 cross-border e-commerce related companies in China, and among them, a large number of cross-border e-commerce brands are stationed in Shenzhen.

Among the cross-border people working in Shenzhen, there is still a large group who have not decided whether to go home. They want to wait and see the latest development of the epidemic before making plans. "I was scared to see that the Shenzhen epidemic was on the hot search again. I clicked in and found that there were no new cases. I felt relieved instantly." It is reported that a large number of cross-border workers in Shenzhen are closely following the latest developments of the epidemic. "The hope of the year is to go home for the New Year," said a freight forwarder working in Shenzhen. Although many of his colleagues are eager to go home, if they really cannot go back, they will definitely not wander around and cause trouble.

The editor learned that in the face of the threat of domestic epidemics, many places have recently proposed "do not return home unless necessary" or encouraged "celebrating the New Year in place", while at the same time allowing people to celebrate the New Year with peace of mind by issuing subsidies and consumption coupons .

What else do people crossing borders worry about, besides not being able to return home?

If you don't think about the future, you will have immediate worries. Those who can't go home are looking forward to going home, and those who can go home are thinking about how to deal with the kind care of their aunts and uncles:

"What's your job?"

"What is cross-border e-commerce? What is Amazon? What is an independent website? What is Shopee?..."

"How much is the annual salary?"

"Have you bought a house outside? When do you plan to buy a house?"

In addition to career, life events are also the focus of their curiosity. No matter whether you are a seller, freight forwarder or service provider, no matter how many orders you place, how fast the logistics is, or how well your store operates, as long as you choose to go home for the New Year, all beings are equal: those without a partner will go on blind dates, those with a partner will be urged to get married, those who are married will be urged to have children, and those who have given birth to one child will be urged to have a second child ...

The questions asked by relatives may seem unoriginal, but they are actually what many people strive for throughout their lives. Here are the questions: Is your career going well? Are you married with children and have a happy family?

Many people’s answer may be no. They often deny and doubt themselves. Why am I not only unsuccessful in my career, but it is so difficult for me to even find a partner?

It is understood that in today's cross-border e-commerce industry, people born in the 1990s and 1995s have become the main force of operations. The editor saw from the prospectus released by Anker Innovations that 49.68% of Anker Innovations' employees were born in the 1990s, and in terms of education, 85.98% of them have a bachelor's degree or above. Therefore, at this time, people born in the 1990s and 1995s will think more about family and career.

The problems of career and love, when applied to the cross-border e-commerce company operations group, can be specifically referred to as the problems of getting out of being single and the problem of orders booming. Many people say: If orders boomed, how long will it take to get out of being single?

How to make orders explode? There are many factors that contribute to this. From the perspective of the external environment, is there still room for cross-border e-commerce exports? The data speaks for itself. It is reported that at the regular press conference held by the Ministry of Commerce on January 13 , spokesperson Shu Jueting introduced that in recent years, China's new foreign trade formats have flourished and continued to innovate. Cross-border e-commerce has grown nearly 10 times in 5 years and will continue to maintain double-digit growth in 2021. The scale of market procurement trade has increased 5 times in 6 years. In 2021, the export volume hit a new historical high. There are more than 1,500 comprehensive foreign trade service companies, more than 2,000 overseas warehouses , and about 130 processing trade bonded maintenance projects have been built . Offshore trade has developed steadily. New formats and new models have become a new driving force for promoting the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade and high-quality development.

Customs statistics also show that China's cross-border e-commerce imports and exports reached 1.98 trillion yuan in 2021, an increase of 15%, of which exports were 1.44 trillion yuan, an increase of 24.5% . Even as the global economic recovery is still affected by the epidemic and has suffered varying degrees of setbacks, China's import and export scale has still achieved sustained rapid growth.

The above data show that cross-border e-commerce exports are still thriving.

In terms of internal conditions, the difference in personal ability of operators also affects product sales. "In the final analysis, good Amazon operations require meticulous work in every link, not just adjusting advertisements every day. There are too many dimensions that need to be analyzed for a product, and it is necessary to grasp the accurate rhythm points and seize the opportunity. In summary, a good link is the product of the right time, right place and right people." Having said that, many Amazon operators are still worried: I understand the principles, so how can I improve my ability?

In the view of many operators, the essence of operation was to swipe, swipe, swipe before, and in 2021 it was to roll, roll, and in 2022 it is estimated that it will be smash , smash , and smash. As the black hat gameplay is gradually blocked and there are more and more white hat players, everyone is on the road of smashing advertisements and will never return. The era of making quick money is gradually fading away, which means that it is difficult to get commissions. While the money they earn has not increased with their age, their worries are increasing day by day.

"In my opinion, after working for many years, it is actually very difficult for me to live in Shenzhen with a basic salary of 10K. As I am getting older, I am suffering from age anxiety. I plan not to come to Shenzhen after the Spring Festival and am considering starting my own business." A cross-border e-commerce operator thought for a long time and decided to go it alone.

It is reported that he graduated in 2016 and worked in B2B for a year at the beginning. He only received a basic salary of 1,900 yuan per month and never received any commission. He wanted to settle down for a year, but there was no one to guide him, no support, and he did not learn anything. In 2017, he came to Shenzhen and came into contact with Amazon. The first company he worked for was a distribution company, which paid a basic salary of 4,000 yuan per month. He did not learn anything after working for a year, so he resigned and came to his current company. After working for nearly 4 years, he once again found that both the company and himself had reached a development bottleneck, and once again came to a fork in his life. He decided to end his journey in Shenzhen and work alone.

People who want to leave Shenzhen say that Shenzhen is a city with a fast pace, lots of overtime, not much life and human touch, and it is hard to love. They will not miss it at all if they leave!

In 2022, there are still many people who plan to work alone in cross-border business, and there are also many people who plan to change their careers. There are also many people who want to leave Shenzhen. Do cross-border e-commerce companies that leave Shenzhen still have souls ? Working alone means a life-and-death struggle? There is no future for working from 9 to 6? This series of questions falls on every cross-border person, and there is a tortuous and vivid answer.

No matter how good or bad the past year was, fortunately, the Spring Festival is coming. Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. Please pack up your mood and start again at the upcoming new time in your life!

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