Many citizens who don’t want to explain their employment status pay to rent a position in a fake office, with some even assigning fictitious tasks and organizing supervisory rounds
For a daily fee of between 30 and 50 yuan ($4-$7), these companies offer desks, Wi-Fi, coffee, lunch, and an atmosphere that mimics any work environment.
According to a report in Beijing Youth Daily, although there are no contracts or bosses, some firms simulate them: fictitious tasks are assigned and supervisory rounds are even organized.
For a fee, the theatricality can reach unimaginable levels, from pretending to be a manager with his own office to staging episodes of rebellion against a superior.
This is dystopian on so many levels, I need a branded powerpoint to explain them.
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It’ll be hilarious when one person is trying to prove employment to another and they both ‘work’ in the same fake office…
finally, no gaps on my resume
Sounds like a cheap way to actually run a one person business. I know that this has been a thing forever–renting a single office in an office building that provides a front desk with a greeter, and secretarial services as part of the deal, but I suspect this option is even cheaper.
Damn that is weird.
From what I hear, Japan kind of does this too or maybe I heard wrong. Idk. Maybe the long hours are still around?
Weird they pay to fake working at an office?
I get paid for that.
It must be nice not having to have a real job for healthcare.
Damn. I thought these kinds of things only exist for a fully automated society, where AI and robots replace all the jobs, and everybody gets UBI. Some people might have nothing else to do, so they voluntarily go to (role play) work so they have a predictable life filled with purpose.
If those guys had hobbies, China would be an unstoppable juggernaut.
