Chapter 87

Unfortunately, while the System's hiring function is excellent, its price is simply too high.

Dr. Zhao commands an annual salary of two million, Yang Chen three million, and even Xing Ming and the others earn eight hundred thousand.

Of course, for such talent, this expenditure is more than worth the value.

However, it is impossible for him to use System-hired personnel for the entire company, numbering in the hundreds.

Such a cost would absolutely be an astronomical figure.

Moreover, if Lin Yi provides these hired personnel with compensation lower than the System's suggested hiring price,

then, according to the System, their loyalty cannot be guaranteed.

Furthermore, as the company expands, Lin Yi must raise these individuals' wages every year.

To summarize in one sentence:

"Provide sufficient compensation, and you gain absolute loyalty; provide inadequate compensation, and they will overthrow even their own father."

Of course, the benefit is that these people will never ask you for company stock options, shares, or the like in the future.

It can be guaranteed that in the company's future, even if it does not go public, they will harbor no complaints.

"Mr. Lin, with the addition of these two production lines, the factory space here at the Entrepreneurship Center will soon be insufficient!"

Yang Chen said.

Regarding this, Lin Yi also understood; the factory at the Entrepreneurship Center had now become a bottleneck restricting the development of Fengyi Technology.

The initial 960-square-meter factory seemed quite large, but when used for lithium battery production lines,

it could accommodate at most four lines; any more than that was impossible.

Looking at the somewhat cramped factory, Lin Yi knew it was time to change locations.

"It seems I must go beg District Chief Deng for some benefits!"

Then, accompanied by Yang Chen,

he approached one of the production line operators.

The other party's job was to load the mixed positive and negative electrodes into the battery casing, insert a separator in between, and thereby form the core cell.

Although lithium battery production lines are not like some strong-acid battery lines where metal components contained in the batteries, such as manganese, zinc, mercury, and lead,

would cause harm to human health.

Nevertheless, Fengyi Technology strictly mandated that attention must still be paid to potential dust contamination and other latent health risks.

Therefore, numerous protective measures were adopted, such as wearing masks, gloves, and work uniforms, to reduce the risk of occupational exposure.

Seeing Lin Yi approach, that operator immediately froze for a moment, then, while continuing to assemble cells, greeted him respectfully:

"Mr. Lin!"

Because Fengyi Technology adopted a piece-rate system, workers earned money based on the number of qualified products produced, on top of their base salary.

Therefore, most employees were willing to work overtime.

In fact, if not for the factory's mandatory restrictions, these people would even be willing to work a "997" schedule.

The wages the factory provided workers were simply attractive enough;

a base salary of over 5,000, with piece-rate pay calculated separately.

Just last month, most employees across the entire factory earned around 13,000.

It might not seem like much, but for assembly line workers with no technical skills,

this was already considered a quite high wage.

At least in Pengcheng, even if they worked themselves to death in 2015, it would be impossible to obtain such wage treatment.

"Mm!" Lin Yi nodded, then asked:

"Have you moved into the apartment the company rented for you?"

The operator nodded.

To resolve these workers' worries, Lin Yi had temporarily rented houses for all of them in a nearby residential compound.

Occupancy was free; each apartment generally housed four people, with two per room.

This counted as quite excellent treatment.

"Are you satisfied with the meals?" Lin Yi asked.

The company had recently opened a small canteen for its employees,

serving food as soon as mealtime arrived each day.

All employees of Fengyi Technology, including the cleaning ladies, received canteen subsidies and could enjoy three free meals daily.

"The food in the canteen is impeccable!"

The operator continued:

"Mr. Lin, I am absolutely not flattering you; I have worked in quite a few factories,

but only Fengyi Technology treats us like human beings. There is no mandatory overtime,

the rest is good, the food is good; I truly hope our Fengyi Technology gets better and better, and that you make a fortune!"

"Hehe, I appreciate your kind words!"

Lin Yi smiled.

After he asked several others, their answers were roughly the same.

Clearly, Fengyi Technology had made these ordinary workers feel valued and warm.

As a child who came out of the mountains, Lin Yi

had always opposed many sweatshops that treated workers as less than human.

Mandatory overtime, terrible living conditions, poor food,

and additionally, some factories would conduct body searches, surveillance, and so on.

These workers, who lacked education, were already living extremely difficult lives,

and the factory capitalists exploited them to the utmost, skinning them alive and draining their blood.

996, 997.

At Fengyi Technology, shifts started at 8 AM, lasted eight hours, and operated on a three-shift rotation system.

There was absolutely no forcing workers to work overtime.

However, many workers still chose to work overtime voluntarily under the piece-rate bonus system.

In response, to meet production targets, Lin Yi could only compensate these workers with better accommodation and meals.

Overall, the results were very good.

Many employees felt a strong sense of belonging to the company.

The company truly treated them as human beings rather than tools.

Lin Yi hoped these people would stay at Fengyi Technology forever, becoming true Fengyi people,

and build their own corporate culture and pride.

(PS: For this new book, I beg for flowers, tips, and review tickets; your support is the author's motivation!)

Lin Yi conducted a thorough inspection of the company and received quite favorable feedback.

He then proceeded to the laboratory of Dr. Zhao and Dr. Wen's team.

Upon seeing him arrive, Dr. Zhao immediately picked up a cylindrical battery.

"Lin Zong, this is our 18650 battery...."

Looking at this blue-packaged cylindrical cell,

Lin Yi understood that this would be the company's flagship product for the next phase.

A power battery.

The 18650 is the progenitor of lithium-ion batteries; Japan's Sony Corporation originally established this standard model to reduce costs.

In the designation, '18' indicates a diameter of 18mm, '65' indicates a length of 65mm, and '0' denotes a cylindrical battery.

Over time, this naming convention became the universal consensus.

Such batteries are generally suitable for various digital products.

For instance, chargers, digital cameras, opera players, massage guns, face-slimming devices, POS terminals, and portable lighting equipment.

They support rechargeable cycles and incorporate a protection board to safeguard the battery during charging.

However, compared to market offerings with capacity ranges between 800mAh and 2600mAh,

Fengyi Technology's "Super Power" 18650 initial range achieves 4000mAh to 13000mAh.