"High-voltage line" mainly refers to the behavioral boundaries that Tencent's culture and values can't tolerate, such as fraud and bribery. According to the reporter, Tencent's anti-corruption team conducted an internal investigation.
A Tencent employee told China Business News that Tencent has always had strict requirements on "accepting bribes or kickbacks", "engaging in commercial competition with the company", "having conflicts of interest or related transactions with the company" and "violating the law and discipline", which has formed a high-voltage line that everyone in the company knows and is often emphasized in internal mails. Once the high-voltage line is touched, the labor relationship will be terminated and criminal responsibility will be investigated by the judicial organs.
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Anti-corruption of Internet companies has become a normal state.
Insiders analyzed to reporters that Internet companies have been in the stage of rapid growth, and the development of companies is often faster than the improvement of enterprise management systems. At the same time, the openness and high profit of the Internet itself provide a lot of rent-seeking opportunities for employees of Internet companies.
The anti-corruption of Internet companies often relies on corporate culture, management system and legal mechanism. Among them, corporate culture and values are more about preventing corruption from the moral level, while management system is about preventing and punishing corruption from the perspective of self-discipline mechanism.
In addition, there are external legal mechanisms, and the three are isomorphic to build an internal corruption prevention and control system for Internet companies. Not only Tencent, but also Baidu, Alibaba and 360. Establish a corruption audit mechanism internally and grant it high power.