According to posts on X and V2EX by multiple users, Tencent Docs—Tencent’s online collaboration tool—is laying off staff from its Beijing team: The Beijing office will be shut down, and all employees there have been individually notified that July 18 is their final day of work; reportedly there’s no room for negotiation, and even pregnant employees are not exempt. It is said that Tencent’s legal department has already stepped in to prepare for potential labor disputes. Meanwhile, the Shenzhen team is reportedly set to be integrated into Tencent WorkBuddy—an enterprise-grade desktop AI Agent tool launched by Tencent Cloud’s CodeBuddy team in March this year.
In recent years, competition in the online document space has intensified, with Lark (ByteDance’s product) and Kingsoft WPS steadily gaining market share among both corporate clients and individual users. Tencent Docs currently lacks clear growth drivers. At present, this information is limited to social media posts and forum threads; Tencent has yet to issue any official statement. Details such as the exact scale of layoffs and compensation packages remain undisclosed pending further confirmation from the company.