Is it standing or lies … The unemployed young Chinese use “fake work offices”

There are more and more companies in China, which young unemployed pay for pretending to work in them – BBC said on Monday. Unemployment among young people is 14 percent, and the Chinese economy has slowed down. Using the “pretended work office” costs about $ 4.2 a day.

There are several reasons why customers decide to use the services of such offices. At some universities, an unwritten rule applies that students must sign an employment contract or provide evidence of an internship within a year of graduation – otherwise they do not receive a diploma. The portal describes a graduate who sent a photo from the office to the university as evidence of an internship.

The offices of the apparent work are currently appearing in large cities of China. Most often they resemble fully functional offices equipped with computers, Internet access, and even conference rooms and tea services. Sometimes the daily fee includes lunch, snacks and drinks – said the BBC.

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Dr. Christian Yao from the Faculty of Management of the Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand and an expert on the Chinese economy believes that the phenomenon of pretending to work has become very common, because in the face of difficulty, young people need places where they could rethink their next steps or undertake occasional tasks. – The apparent work office is one of the transitional solutions – he believes.

Shui Zhou, which the company went bankrupt last year, used the pretended work office because he decided that the atmosphere in the office would improve his self -discipline. I have been working there for over three months. Although he could come and go out at any time, it usually reaches the company between 8 and 9 am, and sometimes he leaves only late in the evening. It is much happier than before.

The owner of one of the offices does not complain about the lack of customers – within a month of opening the facility, all jobs were occupied. New volunteers must wait until one of them slows down. Ok 40 percent His clients are university graduates pretending to be an internship, a small group uses a fake work to weaken the pressure of parents, the others give other reasons. (PAP)

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