Time Travel: 2014 - Chapter 434

c434 Where online working comes in

Huang Jing also had other reasons for calling Lin Hui this time.

At least Huang Jing did not specifically congratulate Lin Hui on the game “T-rex’s Journey”.

The main purpose of Huang Jing’s call to Lin Hui was to report to Lin Hui the progress of the online office system leasing.

So after a brief chat about the game “T-rex’s Journey”.

Huang Jing chatted with Lin Hui about online office work.

Huang Jing has already conducted preliminary negotiations with the overseas team regarding the leasing of the “F.FSG” online office software.

The main purpose of Huang Jing’s call was to give Lin Hui feedback on the results of the negotiations and at the same time, Huang Jing wanted to know Lin Hui’s next plan.

When it comes to online office work, in fact, Lin Hui had not specifically tinkered with online office software in his previous life.

However, this does not prevent Lin Hui from expressing his own opinions on online office work.

With past life experience, Lin Hui is undoubtedly standing on the shoulders of giants.

In this case, it is not impossible to ask Lin Hui to point out the situation.

Lin Hui has used similar online office software/online office systems in his previous life.

Lin Hui is still very clear about some common shortcomings or disadvantages of online office software/online office systems in previous lives.

Speaking of the reason why many companies chose to work online in the past life, it was also a last resort for many companies.

When faced with certain special circumstances, people are not allowed to gather, and the normal operation of the enterprise requires countless technical personnel to perform daily operations.

In this case, online office software/online office system has become the last resort for wage earners.

Speaking of which, the earliest online office software/online office system in the previous life was actually quite informal.

Because the main focus of the earliest online office in China in the previous life was not entirely for office work.

When many people turn their attention to online office work, it is just to meet urgent needs.

The earliest online offices were mainly used for online meetings.

In the early days, this kind of online communication was completely realized by WeChat groups and QQ groups.

Although instant messaging software like WeChat and Penguin can provide online meeting functions to a certain extent.

But online meetings alone are not all there is to online office work.

As enterprises’ demands for online office tasks further escalate.

Enterprises began to turn to professional office software such as Dingding and Feishui.

Lin Hui really doesn’t take it seriously with the professional capabilities advertised by this type of professional office software.

Lin Hui thinks it is better to call this kind of software professional office software.

It would be more appropriate to call it “universal office software”.

This is why Lin Hui calls this type of software general office software rather than professional office software.

Naturally, this is because these software are still inferior in terms of professionalism.

Anyway, based on Lin Hui’s actual experience in using it in his previous life.

From an office perspective, the professionalism of this type of software is hard to describe.

Especially when these softwares were first launched, even the most basic general office functions were not very interesting.

Software such as Dingding and Feimao always feel tasteless and tasteless when used for online office work in special periods.

Although this kind of software that focuses on efficiency claims to be able to meet certain online office needs.

But in fact, it only plays a certain role in online meetings, check-in, and document synchronization.

For more complex work content, it is simply impossible to satisfy it online.

Even in many cases, when faced with some technical tasks, the performance of online office software is quite poor.

Anyway, Lin Hui’s work in his previous life was difficult to handle with this kind of online office software.

Unfortunately, even the domestic online office software on the eve of Lin Hui’s time travel did not solve the corresponding problems properly.

As for why it couldn’t be solved?

Lin Hui felt that it was not simply because of technical problems.

When the market and many other things come into play, simple things often become complicated.

Speaking of domestic software technical strength, it is actually a very metaphysical issue.

The strength shown in domestic software is a very abstract issue.

Evaluations of domestic software technology strength tend to be either extremely strong or extremely poor.

There are few objective reviews.

Why do you say that?

Let’s talk about the weak technical strength of domestic software!

It is a coincidence that a website like 123O6 can be born in China.

Although most people are familiar with the “unremarkable” website 123O6.

But few people pay attention to this site.

As for the past and present life of this website, not many people may care.

In the eyes of most people, its technical level is often equated with the technical level of general government portals by people who don’t know the truth.

This view is quite one-sided.

But in fact, it is quite difficult to build a website like 123O6.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is world-class in difficulty.

After all, we are facing the travel problem of more than one billion people.

The ticketing system of such a website is not uncomplicated.

First of all, it has a large number of visits and is the only official online ticket purchasing channel.

Although not everyone buys tickets online.

But this still does not prevent the website from selling more than 3 billion tickets a year.

What is the concept of three billion tickets? If these tickets were connected end to end, they could circle the earth more than 7 times.

And because of the habits of Chinese people, during the Spring Festival, the number of visits to this website will easily exceed 100 billion times.

Lin Hui remembered when he saw a set of data about the Spring Festival of 2020 in his previous life.

The website received an astonishing 149.5 billion visits a day, with an average of 1.7 million clicks per second.

With such a terrifying amount of visits, if it were an ordinary website, it would probably be paralyzed long ago.

In addition to the number of visits, the logical design of the ticket purchase website and ticket grabbing related parts is also far more complicated than people think.

For example: A random high-speed train may involve more than ten stations. Among these dozen stations, there are many possibilities for customers to choose a certain station to get on the train and a certain station to get off. In addition, As for the seat settings, there are three common seat options: business seats, first-class seats, and second-class seats. So just by purchasing tickets for one high-speed train, users have quite a lot to choose from.

And this is just one route!

You know, there are nearly 2,000 passenger stations across the country. At their peak, they operate more than 10,000 passenger trains every day.

From this point of view, it is not an exaggeration to describe the options for purchasing tickets as “a plethora of options”.

Moreover, tickets are still a dynamic commodity, and tickets can be purchased, refunded, or changed at any time.

This requires the website to monitor dynamic changes at all times and respond immediately, so it depends on the amount of calculations, complexity, and load.

It is said that the complexity of several major domestic e-commerce giants such as Bao, Dong and Xixi in the previous life could not keep up with one-fifth of 123O6.

In addition to the above-mentioned problems, there are also security protection issues. The 123O6 system contains a huge amount of personal information. If there is a slight mistake, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Some media once made statistics that 123O6 received as many as 820,000 risk requests per second.

A website like 123O6 was built in 2012 to invite bids from all over the world.

Many international giants, including Microsoft and IBM, came to bid, but none of these giants could be the first to take advantage.

In the end, it was the domestic technical team that completed the website.

The domestic technical team has the strength to handle such a website, and the corresponding technical strength is not weak.

But based on this, it can be said that domestic software technology is strong, right?

It is an indisputable fact that some very commonly used websites have the same poor experience as shi.

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Lin Hui believes that whether the domestic technical team is strong or not does not depend on the difficulty of the technology itself.

It’s about how determined you are about a product.

Do you really want to get something done?

If you really want to get something done and are willing to take action, there is no reason why it can’t be done.

There is a similar expression in The Analects of Confucius:

“The beauty of Tangdi is the opposite. Don’t you think that the room is far away?”

Confucius said: “If you don’t think about it yet, how far away can you be?”

(There is an ancient poem that reads: “The flowers of Tang Di are swaying gracefully. How can I not miss you? It’s just because my home is too far away.”

Confucius said: “He still doesn’t really miss it. If he really misses it, why is it so far away?”)

Although the above statement has a rather idealistic tendency.

But Lin Hui still feels that if you really want to get something done, there are few obstacles that Chinese people can’t overcome.

In Lin Hui’s previous life, until the eve of time travel, domestic Internet companies still did not do a good enough job in online office work.

Even the experience of some online office software is very poor.

As for what is the reason for all this?

Lin Hui felt that the fundamental reason was that the development team of the online office software had not made up its mind on this matter.

At least not really paying attention when doing it.

And why haven’t these development teams made up their minds?

This is where the wise see wisdom and the benevolent see benevolence.

Anyway, Lin Hui feels that when it comes to online office work, it is not difficult to do it if you really make up your mind and have a clear direction.

Even if it is impossible to create the kind of online office software that can completely replace the offline office scene.

At least one can be used.

What’s more, Lin Hui is not starting an online office from scratch.

Instead, we cooperate directly with technically mature overseas teams.

This in itself is a shortcut.

In this way, even Lin Hui plans to pursue his ambitions in the direction of online office.

Lin Hui does not need to face technical problems in a short period of time.

As for what kind of path will Lin Hui’s online office software take in the future?

For the time being, Lin Hui only plans to be “self-sufficient” for internal use to a certain extent.

As for whether it will be launched into the market in the longer term?

Lin Hui thinks that it will be fine if the online office software/online office system developed in the future is not open to the public in the future.

If it opens to the outside world, it will mainly face overseas markets.

This has nothing to do with whether the butt is straight or not.

Rather, it is a decision based on seeking truth from facts and based on the market.

To be honest, even past lives were affected by various circumstances.

The penetration rate of online office work among domestic enterprises is not too high.

Comparing this to overseas countries, in 2017 alone, more than 80% of companies in China introduced a telecommuting system, with 30 million people working remotely from home.

Although the number “30 million people” does not sound like a lot.

But you must know that there are not too many people in Magnesium Country.

As for the country’s working population, it is very limited compared to our country.

In this case, it is measured from the perspective of proportion.

There are 30 million workers working remotely from home, accounting for almost 16%-19% of the country’s working population.

This ratio is undoubtedly quite exaggerated.

It can even be said that almost one out of every five people in the country may have to rely on online office for work output due to some circumstances.

Magnesium. Why is the penetration rate of online office in China so high?

Lin Hui analyzed it carefully and found that the reasons were roughly as follows:

First, overseas Internet penetration is high and enterprises are highly technologically intensive.

In terms of the number of Internet users, there are few that can rival our country.

But in terms of popularity and influence alone, Magnesium is still ahead of our country.

Judging from the data of previous years in 2018, the Internet penetration rate in Magnesium was about 89%, while that in my country was 59.6%.

In China, smartphone users account for 70% of the total population, but at that time, the domestic smartphone usage rate was less than 51%.

It’s not 2018 yet, it’s 2014.

Now in 2014, the gap between our country and country m is probably even wider.

In addition to factors such as penetration rate, Lin Hui believes that online office has more business prospects in China for the following reasons:

Magnesium. The world’s most famous state-owned Silicon Valley has given birth to countless well-known technology Internet companies.

Magnesium. There are many global companies in China.

The so-called global companies are generally similar to super giants, such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

And there are far more giant companies than the ones listed above.

In 2018, there were 126 state-owned magnesium companies among the world’s top 500 companies.

Among Derwent’s top 100 global innovative institutions in 2018-2019, 33 are state-owned.

Among the top 100 global technology brands in 2018, 55 were state-owned magnesium, while 18 were in China during the same period.

The top five are also Chinese brands, namely Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

The more global companies and the more high-tech Internet companies there are, they will also have an important impact on the popularity of online office work.

Furthermore, it is due to other reasons such as labor costs.

Although Magnesia has a land area similar to that of my country, its population is only about 1/4 of China.

However, various potential factors come into play and have an impact on the popularity of online office work.

Compared with the situation faced by our country, the country’s labor costs are very high. With the fierce competition for talents, real estate prices are rising.

Against this background, many Internet companies in China have begun to set up branches in other parts of the country and even around the world to develop online office models.

In short, various factors make it possible for online office to be developed commercially. Lin Hui believes that in the short term, overseas is more suitable for the commercialization of online office.

Of course, if we take a longer-term view, the role of online office in the future will definitely not be limited to overseas.

Judging from some experiences in previous lives, the online office model is a good choice for companies to deal with difficult scenarios such as soaring housing prices, high talent costs, and traffic congestion.

Therefore, it is not only overseas areas that can commercialize online office work, but domestically, online office is also very promising in the near future.

Even so, Lin Hui is not particularly concerned about longer-term matters in the short term.

There is no way to focus on longer-term things.

Even if Lin Hui has certain “prophetic” information, it is only limited to the moment of his rebirth.

Who can predict what will happen in the longer term?