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.
I can see many use cases. Here’s one.
Imagine Joe.
Joe makes well over $250k/year doing furry porn livestreams. Nobody knows Joe’s face but they are intimately familiar with his penis and anal sphincter.
Joe doesn’t want to explain to his friends and family what he does for a living.
Joe deepfakes himself a career.
His deeply conservative parents are very proud of Joe.
Found no furry porn posts on your account. I am the disappoint.
my alt account be like…
Yes. We definitely do not want people like Joe mixing with polite society.
What an example.
Jo gets deepdived by a dozen people. No … not the title of the next furry porn, just what is happening now on Lemmy.
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, a third space!
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.
I’m pretty sure that’s what these places are. At the end of the article it says people are mostly there for collaboration and office space, but that some people are there for fake work. Whenever I see articles about China now, I have to question the validity of them. Are there people there for fake work? Clearly, but that’s not what that office is for according to the article itself. And you’d have to ask the simple question, does that happen in other nations as well? Absolutely. But for some reason, news about China, they’ll only admit that at the very end. Suspicious
Damn that is weird.
japan, korea both have busy work.
Weird they pay to fake working at an office?
I get paid for that.
From what I hear, Japan kind of does this too or maybe I heard wrong. Idk. Maybe the long hours are still around?
Wasn’t this an episode of Seinfeld?
It must be nice not having to have a real job for healthcare.
If those guys had hobbies, China would be an unstoppable juggernaut.
4-7$? So I can basically save a little in the west, and live a stressfree life there? (When ignoring the CCP etc. ofc)
