It took Chu Jungui a whole morning to interview everyone. I have to say that Kate is very professional. She has almost built the entire management team. Each candidate has their own characteristics, either with personality or resume. Almost all of them are retained. The reason why one is fired is because Kate deliberately left redundancy. If we keep them all, wouldn't it look like the boss has no opinion?
After everyone finished their interviews, it was lunch time. Meeting during lunch time is a tradition for high-end people in the Federation. They can talk about things without delaying eating, and they can also impress themselves by the way.
Lunch time is considered business time, and Kate prepared a guest list of seven people for Chu Jungui, all of whom are well-known local business people. Of course, they are all related to the business of 1 Light Year.
Lunch will be held in the hotel. Chu Jungui's room has a specially equipped small restaurant. As for the food, there is no need to worry about it. If it is not done well here, then there is no place that is good.
The atmosphere at the table was very lively, and everyone inadvertently boasted about themselves, and even more so to each other. Everyone's speech was concise and powerful, going straight to the point. A joke that could be told in three sentences would never be told in five sentences. After all, time is limited, and everyone has to leave time for others to express themselves.
The one-hour lunch ended on time, and Chu Jungui felt that he had gained nothing except his ability to remember a bunch of random people and things. Moreover, he only ate 2% full during the whole meal. After all, everyone was talking and basically only took one bite of each dish. Everyone regarded losing weight as a daily routine in life, so Chu Jungui was embarrassed to eat more. . However, if all the dishes were eaten, Chu Jungui could only eat 5%.
It’s hard for the test subjects to understand why they put so much effort into putting a bunch of low-calorie things on the table, just to look good?
The highlight after lunch is to visit the 1 Light Years new building. The only gain from the lunch meeting was that Chu Jungui finalized the contract for the new office building on the spot.
After lunch, the flying car took Chu Jungui and Li Ruobai to the new office building.
The new office building is located on the edge of the city. From a distance, you can see the arc-shaped dome. In front of the 500-meter-high building are low-density buildings and a large forest, giving you an excellent view. This is not the most expensive area in the city, it can only be regarded as second-class, but it is quite in line with 1 Light Year's current positioning. The best thing is the lakeside area in the north of the city, which is all occupied by the headquarters of the top 100 companies. The current light years are not enough.
This building alone cost Chu Jungui 11 billion. With this money, he could build a dozen destroyers. This price made Chu Jungui hesitate for a while, but he was finally convinced by historical data. Properties like this in the core areas of the core cities of the core planet rarely lose money no matter what the current price is. But now that the war is about to begin, the prices of the properties have dropped to a very low level, and there is a high probability that they will return to their original position after the war.
This is not the only reason. Another reason is that by summarizing the experiences of some famous figures in the history of the Federation who went from liars to legends, Chu Jungui discovered that a famous property will always be a turning point in their career, which of course may be for better or for worse. , but most successful companies will build their own iconic building. This building is not only an asset, but also a financial instrument.
The payment time for the building payment can be postponed to 6 months, and during this period, Chu Jungui can raise a sum of money from the market by issuing additional shares to pay for the building payment. After the purchase is completed, Chu Jun can mortgage the building and get another loan. The mortgage rate for this kind of high-quality property is quite high. If it is run properly, you can even get a loan at 90% of the market price. As a result, Chu Jungui's financial pressure in a short period of time is actually not that great.
Chu Jungui's office is naturally on the top floor. In the new decoration design plan, half of the floor is designated as the chairman's office, and the remaining half floor is the offices and conference rooms of other directors. Chu Jungui's room faced the dome area with the best view, and the entire room had a 180-degree view.
In addition, the top floor has been specially designed, and the height of some areas reaches 25 meters, so the operator made a waterfall here...
Ten of the dozens of floors below are vacant, and the lower areas below are leased to other companies. Kate’s suggestion is to wait until 1 Lightyear’s business gradually expands, and then slowly eliminate these small companies.
After looking around the building, Chu Jungui returned to the top floor and stood in front of the 15-meter-high floor-to-ceiling window looking at the glass-like dome in the distance.
Such a magnificent scenery is just the right place to express some emotion. Chu Jungui brewed his emotions for a while, but then nothing came out.
At this time, the metaphysics component finally found an opportunity to jump out and said: "I think the feng shui of this building is not good..."
Chu Jungui immediately cut off its energy source.
Kate was completely unaware of the encounter with the metaphysical components and asked: "Personalization of the office will take some time. We have prepared three prefabricated plans for you to choose from, namely classical, renaissance and surreal minimalist themes. You see Which style do you like? Or if you have other preferences, our designers can specially communicate with you and redesign the design plan."
Chu Jungui pondered for a moment and said, "Do we have a board of directors?"
Li Ruobai was startled and said: "Of course there is a board of directors, every listed company has one."
"Who are our directors? I don't seem to have seen them much."
Li Ruobai smiled and said: "Your family is the only one, and the rest of the shares are in the hands of acquaintances. Those directors are all professional directors sent by the Wenton family. Their role is to sign and agree. The few independent directors are similar, so of course you I have no impression of them.”
Chu Jungui thought the same thing. Basically, he and Kaitian did all the work that the board of directors had to do, and only called the directors to sign after the matter was decided.
Thinking of this, Chu Jun returned and said: "Since I have no impression of them, let's remove all the directors' offices on this floor and open up the whole floor. This waterfall should not be one-sided, but should be changed into a vertical waterfall."
"Get through..." Kate thought of the huge space of 4,000 square meters on the first floor, and her breathing stopped for a moment. But she was a professional after all, and she immediately burst into a smile that was so enthusiastic that it seemed to shine, and praised: "You are so courageous!"
Chu Jungui looked around: "Space is beautiful. Don't put too many things. Just a table, a chair, a cabinet, and a sofa. Oh, by the way, find a corner and build me a armor dressing room and a weapons room." .”
"No problem!" Kate quickly wrote down the request.
Li Ruobai said: "Wait a minute, there will be a booth here to display the latest starship produced by Lightyear."
"Starship!" Kate's eyes lit up. It turns out that Lightyear is really building starships, which is completely different.
"Yes, it is our latest starship. The exhibition stand must be large, so that the size of the model or holographic image will be large enough to leave a deep impression on people!"
Kate's eyes turned to Chu Jungui. This was Chu Jungui's office after all, and she had to wait for his final decision.
"Are you impressed?" Chu Jungui had another chance to ponder.
After thinking for a few minutes, he said: "Move the booth downstairs. Since we want to show it, let's show more things. Our mobile base should also be put on the agenda. Ruobai, hurry up and get it out."
Li Ruobai was startled for a moment, then realized that Chu Jungui was telling him to draw quickly.
Kate reminded: "If the exhibition hall is placed on the next floor, what about the directors' offices?"
"Move down one level." Chu Jun returned.
"This... okay."
Chu Jungui thought for a while and then said: "What Ruobai said just now is right. Only the large size can make a deep impression. Let's do this. Open up the three lower floors and turn them all into exhibition halls."
"Uh... what about the directors?"
"Keep moving down."
Kate didn't dare to ask any more questions. Anyway, this was the client's request, and she had to endure it no matter how unreasonable it was. As an excellent professional manager, he still has some endurance skills.
The directors and general managers will work on the first floor. The next floor will be the offices of the vice presidents. The next floor will be various functional support departments such as operations, finance, administration, legal and other departments. Risk control will be on the lower floor. There is one floor, but it occupies a separate floor, and then there are the office areas of various functional departments.
This is the result of temporary compression. However, Chu Jungui is still not satisfied: "These management teams take up too much space and are unnecessary. Put all the offices of managing directors and vice presidents on the first floor, and then put the board of directors offices, general manager offices, etc. on the first floor." The manager’s office is put there.”
Kate was really startled and said cautiously: "Isn't this too small? A good office space can make people feel happy and is a necessary condition for attracting high-end talents. Look..."
"It makes sense..." Chu Jungui began to mutter again, and Kate began to feel frightened.
After waiting for a while, Chu Jungui finally finished his meditation and said, "Ruobai, are those directors you just said useful?"
Li Ruobai said: "It's useless, as long as it's alive."
Chu Jungui asked again: "Then what's the use of recruiting so many people here?"
Li Ruobai thought for a while and said, "Decoration."
"That's it. It's just a decoration anyway. What high-end talents are needed? Add two more conference rooms on this floor!" Chu Jungui made the final decision.
In the eyes of the test subjects, the original general manager's office was so big that a whole battalion could be crammed into it according to light-year standards! What a waste of such a big place. As for Chu Jungui's own office and the exhibition hall, they all want to leave a deep impression on others. Since they want to leave an impression, naturally the bigger they are, the more impressive they will be, so they simply go to the extreme.
If Kaitian were to design this, the whole building might only have two floors, the lower floor exhibition hall and the upper floor Chu Jungui's office. As for everyone else, it's all in the basement.
After the entire office building layout was assigned, Kate sent the plan directly to the designer team and asked them to modify it immediately. The final plan would be produced within 12 hours and completed within 24 hours. As for the modification of details and the selection of artwork, you can do it slowly.
After modifying the layout of the office building, Chu Jungui felt much more comfortable. Next, he met with accountants, lawyers and various people from various related industry associations in the unmodified office. The meeting was partly to identify intermediaries that would provide external services, and partly to showcase Lightyear's new office building.
The effect was exactly as Li Ruobai expected. When the various high-end elites with salaries saw this majestic office building, all their arrogance and reserve disappeared, and their attitudes were so good that Kaitian felt a sense of crisis.
Chu Jungui spent the entire afternoon in this neat formal suit and pairs of long legs of various colors.
