Main article about the company: Wildberries
2024
Co-founder of Wildberries Sergey Anufriev spoke about what is happening in the company
Sergei Anufriev, who considers himself the co-founder of the largest Russian marketplace Wildberries, revealed the details of his departure from the company and commented on the current situation in the business. The former commercial director of Wildberries in August 2024 shared his vision of the changes taking place in the company.
According to Forbes, Anufriev left Wildberries in June 2024 after 20 years of work. According to him, the decision to leave was made after a new management team came to the company in early May 2024.
 | I was told that my work would be done by other people, by another team. I could not and did not want to stay, - explained Anufriev. |  |
The former top manager expressed concern about the current situation at Wildberries. He noted that after the arrival of a new team from the company, "dozens of people began to quit." Anufriev stressed that many employees are in a state of shock from the changes taking place.
Anufriev paid special attention to the issue of combining Wildberries with the advertising operator Russ. According to him, he learned about the negotiations with Russ after the fact from Vladislav Bakalchuk, the husband of the founder of the company Tatyana Bakalchuk. Anufriev expressed a misunderstanding of the reasons for such a partnership: "I still do not associate Wildberries and Russ."
Commenting on Vladislav Bakalchuk's appeal to the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, Anufriev suggested that this could be due to attempts to put pressure on Bakalchuk. At the same time, the former director noted that he did not see "anything like that" in the appeal itself, given the long-standing acquaintance of Bakalchuk and Kadyrov.
Anufriev also denied the version that the merger with Russ could be related to the consequences of the fire at the Wildberries warehouse in Shushary. According to him, there were no serious problems after the incident, and the company carefully checked the safety of all employees.
Speaking about the future of Wildberries, Anufriev expressed concern about how the company will function without the key employees who stood at the origins of its creation. Despite his departure, Anufriev stressed that he had never been a co-owner of Wildberries, although he considers himself a co-founder. He described the business as "originally family-run," built by the Bakalchuk family.[1]
Hundreds of people fought at Wildberries warehouse
On the night of February 7-8, 2024 Wildberries , a mass brawl between employees and guards took place at a warehouse in Elektrostal near Moscow. Police detained 13 people, according to the press service of the Main Directorate MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia for. Moscow region
| | The police who arrived at the scene found that during the loading and packaging of the goods, the foreman revealed a violation of the rules for collecting goods by a warehouse employee. There was a conflict between them, security officers were called, with whom a scuffle ensued, - said in a statement by the Moscow Region Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. | |
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The Wildberries press service confirmed that on the territory of the logistics center in Elektrostal "there was a conflict between a worker in the warehouse and an employee of the rapid response group."
| | The security service, together with the arriving representatives of the law enforcement agencies, promptly prevented further proceedings. There are no victims. More than 10 people were taken to the local office to clarify the circumstances, - said the company. | |
According to the Telegram channel Shot, more than 200 people participated in the fight. It was untied by the workers of the seventh block of the warehouse. According to the Telegram channel Mash, when one of its participants sprayed pepper spray in a fight, the scuffle became more fierce. During the fight, Wildberries property and goods that were supposed to go to buyers were damaged. According to eyewitnesses, the guards were able to push back the raging crowd and blocked it in the hangar, the Shot channel said in a statement.
Telegram channel "Caution, Moscow" writes that the mass brawl began because of the beard. One of the guards made a remark to the worker about facial hair and demanded to shave, after which a scuffle ensued.
In November 2023, a similar incident occurred at another Wildberries warehouse - in the village of Koledino (Moscow region). Then the dispute over the packaging material escalated into a physical collision, during which one of the employees lost consciousness after being hit in the face.[2]
2022
Increase in the number of employees and performers before the New Year season to 154 thousand people
In the high season of 2022, for the November sales, during which there is an increased load on logistics systems, the company attracted a large number of employees and performers: about 46,000 people. Thus, their total number (excluding employees of partner points of issue and sorting centers) is 154,000 people as of November 15, 2022. The company announced this on December 2, 2022.
The online platform opened additional jobs in Udmurtia, Khakassia, the Moscow region, the Leningrad and Tula regions, in the Altai and Stavropol Territories and other regions. Residents of our country work in logistics centers, delivery, partner and own points of issue of orders Wildberries, in the company's offices, including in IT departments.
The company continues to develop its own IT school, where specialists in the field of technical digital specialties undergo free training and retraining. In 2022, 655 Wildberries students gained new knowledge in IT, the company invited the best of them to work.
According to forecasts, in 2022 Wildberries will create over 100,000 additional jobs in various professional fields. industries Internet trade
Mobilization of 3,000 employees during the conflict in Ukraine
On October 21, 2022, it became known about the mobilization of 3 thousand Wildberries employees during the conflict in Ukraine. This is more than in the Bryansk and Kaluga regions combined.
According to the Telegram channel Mash, citing its sources, representatives of the military registration and enlistment office drove up to the warehouses on buses at the height of the working day and simply handed the agendas to the men at the exit. At the same time, the company does not have any options except to cooperate with the military registration and enlistment office. In case of opposition, its work will be suspended by the decision of the prosecutor, this is provided for by law, there are already precedents, the publication says.
According to Mash, at the largest warehouse of the company in Koledino (Podolsky district of the Moscow region), the pickers stopped working shipping documentation (a scanner with a screen and information for inventory and other warehouse processes). In such a situation, it is impossible to work. People were forced to go to understand closer to the main entrance, and there they were already waiting for the military registration and enlistment office.
Mash also claims that many, having learned about what was happening, hid through spare doors and refused to come to work in the following days. The men had no opportunity to find out about the arrival of the military registration and enlistment office employees - entry to the warehouse with the phone was prohibited, and people were sent to the medical examination right from there.
The Telegram channel writes that in connection with the incident, there are now not enough workers in the warehouses. Note that representatives of the marketplace have not yet commented on the situation, and it has not yet been possible to confirm it in other sources.
According to Data Insight partners, from September 21 to September 27, 2022, attendance at the main Russian marketplaces, including Wildberries, was 7-13% lower than a week before the announcement of partial mobilization. For large categorical online stores, traffic decreased by about 20%.[3]
Wildberries warehouse staff strip to their underpants as they arrive at work
In early June 2022, a video appeared on the Internet, which, according to the Telegram channel Baza, captures how, when entering the Wildberries warehouse in Podolsk, employees have to take off almost all their clothes, except for their underwear. This rule applies to both men and women.
All this is necessarily filmed by surveillance cameras. Such tough measures are taken in order to exclude theft among warehouse workers.
The published personnel shows how warehouse employees on the move take off their uniform purple T-shirts used by the Wildberries marketplace, trousers and even shoes and dress again after being searched by a security guard.
As told "Газете.ру," a former employee of the Wildberries warehouse in Podolsk, employees can take with them to the warehouse only a pass, bank card and electronic cigarettes. According to the interlocutor of the publication, despite the inspection procedure, personal belongings disappear from the cabinets of warehouse employees, and the security "does not care."
| | Checks were, in my opinion, from the very beginning of the warehouse. Before entering the warehouse, you are given a cabinet for 12 hours of operation, after which other employees can open the cabinet. They gave out a closet, come up with your password, after that you undress to your underpants. You wear panties, socks and shoes only of those brands that are not in stock, "said the ex-warehouse worker. | |
Many employees are "specifically" fined for lost goods without providing any evidence, he said. Management cancels fines only to "familiar" workers, he said.
Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Industry and Trade Vladimir Gutenev, commenting on the information that Wildberries forces employees to undress to their underwear, called these actions serious psychological violence. [4]
In the suburbs, employees of the Wildberries warehouse stole 20 Nvidia video cards
On March 17, 2022, it became known about the theft of two dozen video cards by employees of the Wildberries warehouse in the Podolsky district of the Moscow region. The amount of damage amounted to about 2 million rubles.
According TASS to MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia Tatyana Petrova, head of the press service of the Main Directorate for the Moscow Region, two employees of the Internet marketplace in the village of Koledino went into the office room of the warehouse during working hours and opened the safe where the game computer video cards were located. Under the guise of picking up an order, the offenders loaded 20 graphic accelerators onto a cart, and then threw the goods out of the window to their accomplice. He loaded them into a car and left the warehouse.
The incident was captured by internal surveillance cameras of the warehouse. In the video published by the Mash Telegram channel, you can see how attackers in purple hoodies entered the closed inner territory of the warehouse with goods. They pretended to collect a large online order. In a few minutes, they took out 20 Nvidia 3070 Ti gaming graphics cards from the closed warehouse. The cost of one such product in Russia exceeds 200 thousand rubles.
According to Tatyana Petrova, a criminal case has been initiated under the article on theft (Article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The operatives identified and detained two suspects while trying to sell the goods in one of the purchases located on Revolutionary Avenue, and the third - at his place of residence in Podolsk. According to Mash, Wildberries employees first sold one video card to the electronics pawnshop for 60 thousand rubles. After that, the owner of the store, thinking that they were trying to sell him stolen computer components, turned to the police.
The suspects were released on recognizance not to leave. The stolen goods were confiscated from them.[5]
2020
Recruitment plan for an additional 200 IT professionals
On August 7, 2020, online retailer Wildberries announced the expansion of its IT workforce. Residents of all regions of the country can apply for vacancies, work can be carried out in a remote format. Thanks to the influx of personnel, the company expects to accelerate the development of IT projects.
Online trading platform Wildberries plans to hire another 200 IT specialists to implement various projects of the company. Wildberries requires project managers, iOS and Android developers, QA engineers, DevOps, Data engineers, SQL Developer, Rust Developer, Golang and other specialists. Vacancies are open in various departments of companies.
The headquarters of Wildberries is located in Moscow, but the place of residence of future employees does not matter: the work can be carried out in a remote format, the company emphasized. A mandatory requirement is the presence of citizenship of Russia, Belarus or Kazakhstan.
| | "Wildberries is an IT company with a fairly large developer workforce. At the beginning of August, Wildberries has more than 700 IT specialists, after the closure of vacancies, their number will increase to 900. The influx of new personnel will allow us to accelerate the development of projects on which our IT employees are working and launch new ones, "said Maxim Beshketa, HR Director of Wildberries. | |
It is assumed that the new IT specialists of the company will work on mobile applications, a trading platform and an online store, engage in the automation of business processes, develop internal infrastructure, etc.
Employment of 12,000 Russians in the first month of the COVID-19 pandemic
On April 30, 2020, Wildberries announced the continued increase in the number of employees of service divisions, as well as the launch of a mobile application for employment.
In total, from March 25 to April 27, 2020, Wildberries employed 12,000 people. At the end of April 2020, the company has 48 thousand employees at permanent and temporary workplaces. Due to a sharp increase in demand for courier delivery in April - 3 times - the online retailer more than 2 times increased the number of courier services (+ 4.5 thousand people) and distribution centers (+ 5.7 people).
To further increase the rate of recruitment, Wildberries launched two mobile applications for hiring employees in the courier service logistic and the company's centers. You can start working in an online retailer in just one day. To do this, you need to install the application, fill out the questionnaire and download scans of the necessary documents. Applications for employment in Wildberries work on OS Android and are available for download in the official store. In the Google Play near future, the application will be available on the platform. iOS
As of April 2020, more than 3,000 vacancies have been opened in Wildberries in 340 settlements of Russia. Applicants are offered both temporary and permanent employment for vacancies in the courier service and points of issue of orders, distribution centers, IT, contact center, AHO and other divisions of the company. The company offers a competitive level of income - for example, the average income of a Wildberries courier in the Moscow region is from 60 to 135 thousand rubles, an employee of a distribution center - from 40 to 135 thousand rubles.
We are ready to hire employees, in addition to Wildberries, also in Lenta, Krasnoye & Beloe, Myasnov, Rest , Skyeng, ER-Telecom Holding JSC, Staromytishchinsky Source and other companies.
Opening another 4 thousand vacancies
On April 16, 2020, it became known that Wildberries opened another 4 thousand vacancies in 340 settlements of the Russian Federation. The largest Internet retailer in Russia is increasing its staff to cope with the growing number of orders amid self-isolation.
According to Interfax, citing a statement from Wildberries, the company opened about 2.5 thousand new jobs for the courier service, 1.3 thousand in distribution centers. The retailer also offers work in the IT, contact center and administrative department. Applicants are offered both permanent and temporary vacancies.
From March 23 to April 12, Wildberries has already employed 5.4 thousand people. For three weeks, dozens of companies applied to Wildberries with proposals for temporary employment of their personnel, including Moscow Airport, Domodedovo Rocketbank",,,," " KFCSportmaster Rolf," Kanzler"," Daughters Sonnies"Econica,",,, Kari Samsonite Baon Sunlight,, Melon Fashion Group Funday.
In addition to Wildberries, other companies, including Lenta, Komus, Krasnoye and Beloe, Myasnov, Resrest, Skyeng and ER-Telecom Holding, also announced their readiness to accept new employees. [6]
| | We believe that at a challenging time, the business can provide support to its employees by offering temporary employment in other companies. This will save jobs in the country and incomes of the population, - said the press service of Wildberries. | |
The company began to actively increase its staff after the Ministry of Labor prepared a draft resolution on additional support measures in the field of employment in the context of the coronavirus epidemic. The department proposed to transfer employees of companies to temporary employment and provide for the possibility of public works for them.
By mid-April 2020, Wildberries' own network of points of issue of orders has about 7 thousand points in six countries. The company employs more than 40 thousand employees.
Recruitment of 3.5 thousand employees
On March 25, 2020, Wildberries announced the opening of at least 3.5 thousand workplaces. The Internet retailer is looking for applicants to distribution centers, order points, courier service and central office.
According Kommersant to the newspaper, citing the press service of Wildberries, the company intends Russia to employ people in 450 settlements who have lost their jobs due to the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. coronavirus COVID-19 By March 25, 2020, the number of Wildberries personnel, according to its own data, exceeds 36 thousand people.
In addition, to find work during the crisis, the online retailer has launched a profile website (всемработавб.рф), where other companies can post their job offers.
According to estimates by the International Labor Organization (ILO), up to 25 million people around the world may lose their jobs due to the new coronavirus. Experts admit that the consequences of the pandemic for labor markets may become the largest in history. For comparison, as a result of the global crisis of 2008, the number of unemployed increased to 22 million people. At the end of 2019, there were 188 million unemployed on a global scale.
In order to support Russians during the coronavirus pandemic, Wildberries also launched free delivery of all orders in all regions of Russia and a contactless order receipt service.
It is reported that free delivery for everyone was introduced to ensure uninterrupted and safe delivery of essential goods.
According to the company, Wildberries delivers about 750,000 orders to customers every day. Wildberries notes that about 10% of the total demand for protective equipment now falls on designer goods. Their sales grew 12 times year-on-year.[7]
Notes
- ↑ Co-founder of Wildberries Sergey Anufriev - Forbes: "This is originally a family business"
- ↑ Police officers establish the circumstances of the violation of order in the city. Elektrostal
- ↑ 3 thousand employees were mobilized from Wildberries, summons were handed out at the exit from work
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- ↑ Three suspects in the theft of 20 video cards worth 2 million rubles were detained in the Moscow region
- ↑ Wildberries will recruit 4 thousand more employees
- ↑ Wildberries opened 3.5 thousand jobs due to coronavirus
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