"Wow, Wang Yan, your company is really huge~"
Chen Baojia arrived at the company and let out an exaggerated cry of amazement.
"That's a bit much. How many people do you think we have?" Wang Yan shook his head with a laugh.
"So exactly how many people does your company have now?"
"Four hundred and thirty-seven."
Wang Yan gave a very precise answer. That was the current number of employees in Jingcheng. More than two hundred worked for Know Me, over a hundred for Premium Network, plus a team researching mobile phones and a dozen-odd people on the Longteng Pay team. Most of them were student part-timers; fewer than a hundred had been recruited from the open market.
Among the externally recruited employees, most worked for Premium Network. After all, it provided delivery services. As time went on, that number would naturally grow even larger—it was a labor-intensive industry.
For now, deliveries only had one station set up in each district. Employees were spread out to cover different areas, with each person responsible for a large section. Same-day or immediate delivery cost extra; for orders that did not need to arrive that day, all kinds of goods were sent in bulk to the stations before being distributed.
Over the coming period, as Premium Network's shipment volume in Jingcheng increased, it would further build out and improve its delivery network.
Once Liu Qiangdong got the business in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta up and running, the next step would be to establish interregional logistics networks. Using those prosperous routes as a backbone, they would connect the areas along the way, eventually forming a complete logistics and transportation system covering most of the country.
So in reality, the number of employees under Wang Yan was already closing in on