{"id":77280,"date":"2025-08-17T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77280\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:01:09","slug":"china-pretend-work-firm-offers-shared-office-space-for-us4-a-day-promotes-personal-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77280\/","title":{"rendered":"China \u2018pretend work\u2019 firm offers shared office space for US$4 a day, promotes personal growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Pretend work companies that help unemployed people fake having a job for a small price are springing up across China.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The trend is particularly prevalent in first and second-tier cities where people rent office space and transform it into \u201cpretend work companies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They usually charge people between 30 and 50 yuan (US$4 and US$7) a day. The rate drops if they buy a monthly package for a working spot.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chen Yingjian owns one such company in Hangzhou, in eastern China\u2019s Zhejiang province.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The companies also offer \u201cpretend job interviews\u201d to help make the whole experience seem even more authentic. Photo: 163.com\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/08\/12\/d2b02116-2fc1-4d64-8466-f5821842a141_2adc76a4.jpg\" title=\"The companies also offer \u201cpretend job interviews\u201d to help make the whole experience seem even more authentic. Photo: 163.com\"\/>The companies also offer \u201cpretend job interviews\u201d to help make the whole experience seem even more authentic. Photo: 163.com<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chen conducts \u201cpretend interviews\u201d and sets up codes of conduct such as \u201cworking from 9am to 6pm\u201d, \u201cno smoking in the office\u201d and \u201cno office romances\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pretend work companies that help unemployed people fake having a job for a small price are springing up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[34834,45536,47022,45,49,47034,48,95,27958,57,47027,14497,2539,40213,16857,46,9787,41322,3872,47031,244,47030,47029,47035,1906,47033,47026,47024,47021,47023,47028,21834,47032,47025,2532,3378,1942,2473,6363,2001,11608,125],"class_list":["post-77280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-account","tag-air-conditioning","tag-boss","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-cafe","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-cities","tag-code-of-conduct","tag-coffee","tag-company","tag-downturn","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-fake","tag-firm","tag-free","tag-graduating","tag-internet","tag-jewellery","tag-job-pressure","tag-jobless","tag-library","tag-lunch-boxes","tag-monthly-package","tag-office-space","tag-personal-growth","tag-pretend","tag-registered","tag-romance","tag-routine","tag-second-tier","tag-security","tag-smoking","tag-social-media","tag-staff","tag-statistics","tag-summer","tag-survey","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}