602: Chapter 602 Su Yang's Difficult Start-up Experience! Charitable Foundation!

Chapter 602: Entrepreneurship is Not Easy for Su Yang! Charitable Foundation!

Walking out of Gu Qian's office, Xie Yanlei felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders.

Thinking of the big boss, he ducked straight into the company restroom.

Seeing no one around, he secretly wiped away a tear, then cupped some ice-cold water to wash his face!

Facing his reflection in the mirror, he tidied up his clothes slightly, fixed his hair, and walked out of the restroom.

When he arrived at the office, many people looked at him curiously.

He managed a forced smile and sat back down at his workstation.

Wang Ye leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Brother Xie, are you alright?"

"It's nothing major!" Xie Yanlei forced a smile. "I might need to take a long leave of absence soon, so I'll have to hand over my current work to you guys!"

"What happened, Brother Xie?"

"Xie Yanlei, what are you taking leave for?"

"..."

The colleagues in the office were all very curious.

As for Xie Yanlei's work, they didn't care much about it anymore.

Because hearing that Xie Yanlei was leaving for several months, they knew something big must have happened!

"Xie Yanlei is sick and needs to go to the hospital for treatment; he'll be resting for a few months!" Just then, Xie Yanlei's superior, Chen Jianxian, entered the office and said, "His workload will be shared among everyone for the time being!"

"What kind of illness?"

"Brother Xie, what's wrong with you?"

"..."

Pushed into a corner, Xie Yanlei sighed helplessly. "Liver cancer!"

"What? Liver cancer!"

"Holy crap!"

"No way, Brother Xie!"

"..."

The entire office exploded; after all, it was cancer!

Xie Yanlei quickly explained, "Don't worry, it's early stage. The doctor said there's a good chance of a cure!"

Chen Jianxian added, "That's right. Fortunately, it was caught early, so there's still a very high hope for recovery!"

The youngest, Wang Ye, suddenly asked, "What about the company? What did the company say?"

The office fell silent instantly. Almost all the employees' eyes darted between Xie Yanlei and Chen Jianxian's faces, wanting to know how the company handled it.

Xie Yanlei said with a smile, "The company is advancing my medical expenses and waiting for me to return to work!"

He felt much more at peace now...

Wang Ye breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good then!"

He knew how difficult things were for Xie Yanlei; every lunch he ate was a lunchbox brought from home.

He couldn't even bring himself to order the low-priced takeout from Weimeijia!

After the handover was complete and Xie Yanlei had left, Chen Jianxian whispered to everyone in the office:

"Everyone, don't worry about Xie Yanlei. The big boss knows about this. The company will advance his medical fees, keep his position open for him, and even pay him a monthly salary. It won't be a big problem!"

Another veteran employee in his thirties asked in surprise, "Really?"

Chen Jianxian said, "Of course it's true, President Gu said so herself!"

The veteran employee also sighed in relief. "That's good. Xie Yanlei can be considered lucky!"

Wang Ye asked softly, "Brother Xu, does this count as being lucky?"

Xu Xin narrowed his eyes and said, "Of course it counts as very lucky. Not only was the liver cancer detected in time, but the company is helping with medical expenses, paying him a monthly salary, and keeping his job... if that's not luck, what is?"

"Oh!"

Wang Ye nodded.

Seeing that Wang Ye still didn't quite understand, Xu Xin explained in a low voice, "An employee at my previous company also got sick. Do you know how the company handled it?"

Wang Ye asked curiously, "How did they handle it?"

"Directly fired him, without even giving compensation!"

"Damn... that's so heartless?"

Wang Ye looked at the others in the office, and no one spoke up to contradict him!

"What did you think?" Xu Xin said crossly. "It's very hard to get liver cancer recognized as a work-related injury. If the company were even slightly stingy, they'd just fire the person and give N+1 compensation. Besides, Xie Yanlei has social security; those without it have even fewer options... That's why I say Xie Yanlei is lucky!"

"Oh!"

Wang Ye nodded.

Xu Xin said with a smile, "You're lucky, kid. You came to our company right after graduation. Our big boss is famously generous... you'd understand if you worked at other companies for a few years!"

"I know, I know!" Wang Ye said quickly. "I've talked to my classmates, and they all envy me for getting into Spark Media. But I got into Spark Media on my own merit; I was third in my major in the journalism department!"

"Good grief, you're really full of yourself!"

By noon, the news that Xie Yanlei had been diagnosed with liver cancer and that the company was advancing his medical fees and keeping his job had spread.

If Su Yang could see the loyalty levels in Spark Media, he would find that loyalty had begun to rise again.

Not just at the Rongcheng headquarters, but even the loyalty of employees in the Fengtian, Shanghai, and Hangzhou branches was climbing overall.

This kind of news always traveled fast!

It quickly spread through QQ and wechat groups; it was no secret at all!

Meanwhile, Su Yang had also roughly finished discussing the internal charity fund with Guo Xueqin and other management from the finance department.

The scope of coverage was to include all wholly-owned subsidiaries and branches of Jufan Holdings, as well as ordinary employees and their families of controlled subsidiaries.

The specific management rules for the charity fund, institutional setup, the amount of assistance for employees, and quota limits... all needed to be discussed slowly!

However, most of these issues were relatively easy to solve.

There were many domestic enterprises that had established internal charity funds, and many could serve as references.

Regarding the amount and number of grants, it should be specific to the company's profitability... this required further careful discussion!

Su Yang also took the opportunity to ask Guo Xueqin about establishing an external charitable foundation!

The PR department had suggested doing charity work to Su Yang long ago.

But at that time, Su Yang didn't have much money himself, and spending money on charity felt like a bit of a waste.

Only Meijia Housekeeping had been consistently doing charity work by helping elderly people living alone clean their homes!

Additionally, profitable companies like Jiuxiang Catering, Jiuxiang Food, and Spark Entertainment would occasionally donate some money to charitable organizations under official guidance, but the amounts weren't very large!

Yanhu Vocational College had also made donations!

However, Su Yang had to admit that there were definitely many benefits to a company doing charity.

It could improve the corporate image and brand value, enhance employee cohesion and sense of belonging, and also allow them to enjoy tax incentive policies, promoting the company's long-term development.

Now that Su Yang had spare cash and many of his companies were profitable, they needed to build a reputation and influence.

So this time, Su Yang wanted to establish an external charitable foundation at the same time as the internal fund, because he didn't quite trust those domestic charitable organizations.

Even if he was going to do charity, he hoped his money would be spent where it was actually needed.

That it could truly help people in need.

He couldn't help it; the reputation of domestic charitable organizations had been quite terrible recently!

Whenever he thought that his donated funds might be misappropriated by some unscrupulous scoundrels, he felt uncomfortable all over... after all, it was all hard-earned money from him and his employees!

Has it been easy for him to get this far in his entrepreneurship?