China’s unemployed young adults who are pretending to be a job

No one wants to work without paying salary or even worse.

Still paying companies to pay compensation so that you can pretend to work for them, it has become popular among young, unemployed adults in China. This has increased the number of such providers.

China’s lazy economy and the employment market have been developed. Chinese youth unemployment is more than stubbornly, More than 14%.

Since real jobs are difficult to grow, some young adults pay to go to the office rather than just getting stuck at home.

The 30 -year -old Shui Zouu had a food business initiative that failed in 2024. In April of this year, the city of Dongguan, 114 km north to Honga. (71 miles) He started giving 30 yuan ($ 4.20; £ 3.10) to go to a business called North Work Company.

There he joined five “colleagues” that are doing so.

“I’m so happy,” says Mr. Zouu. “It’s like we are working together as a group.”

Such activities are now seen in Shanezen, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Chengdu and Kunming. Often they look completely like functional offices and they are equipped with computers, internet access, meeting rooms and tea rooms.

And instead of just sitting around, they can try to find a job job or try to start their own start-up business. Sometimes daily fees, usually between 30 to 50 yuan, include lunch, snacks and drinks.

Senior Lecturer of Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Management in New Zealand Dr. Christian Yao is an expert of the Chinese economy.

He says, “The event of work hypocrisy is now very common.” Due to the financial transformation and matching of the education and job market, these places need these places to think about their next steps or to do a strange job as an infection.

“Pierand office companies are one of the transitional remedies.”

Mr. Zouu Social Media Site came to the company’s work play while browsing Ziohongsu. They say they felt that the office environment would improve its self -discipline. It is now more than three months.

Mr. Zouu sent photos of the office to his parents and says that he feels more ease because of his lack of jobs.

Attendees can come and leave when they want them, but Mr. Zoo usually goes to the office between 8am and 8am. Sometimes he does not leave till 11 o’clock in the night, only the business manager leaves only after he is gone.

He goes on to say that other people there are now friends. He says that when a person is busy hunting, they work hard, but when they have free time, they chat, joke and play games. And after work, they often have a meal together.

Mr Zouu says he loves this team building and he is very happy before joining.

In Shanghai, Ziaon Tang rented a workstation at the pretense work company in Shanghai earlier this year. Last year graduated from a 23-year-old university and has not yet received a full-time job.

Her university has an unwritten rule that students must sign the employment agreement or provide evidence of internship within a year of graduation; Otherwise, they will not receive a diploma.

She sent the office view of the office as proof of her internship. In fact, she paid a daily fee and sat in the office of online novels to make money in some pockets.

“If you are making it fake, finally make it fake,” says Ms. Tang.

Director of Planning Planning Institute for Max Plank Institute in Germany. Biao Ziang says that China’s pretending to work comes from the “feeling of despair and power” about the lack of job opportunities.

“Harvesting is a shell to work for themselves who find themselves for themselves, create a short distance from the mainstream society and give themselves a small place.”

The owner of a work company in the city of Dongguan is a 30 -year -old Fyue (a nickname). He says, “What I sell is not a workstation, but a reputation for not being useless,” he says.

After the earlier retail business, he himself was unemployed, owned by the coed (partner’s disease), which was owned by all the country (or continent). “I was very depressed and a little self -destructive,” he remembers. “You wanted to turn on the tide of the sea, but you were powerless.”

In April of this year, he began to promote the work of work and filled all the workstations within a month. New joiners have to apply.

Fayu says 40% of customers are a recent university graduate who have come to draw photos to prove their previous tutors experience. A small number of them come to help their parents’ pressure.

The other 60% of the independent work, many of which are digital wandering, including Low and cyber space writers who work for large ecommerce firms. The average age is around 30, the youngest age is 25.

Officially, these workers are referred to as “flexible employment professionals”, including ride-haling and truck drivers.

In the long term, Fiu says it is doubtful whether this business will be beneficial. Instead, he likes to see this as a more social experiment.

He says, “Lies to maintain this respect, but it allows some people to find the truth,” he says. “If we only help users enhance their acting skills, we are gently involved in fraud.

“This social experiment can really live with his assurance by helping to convert their fake work to the real initial point.”

Mr. Zouu is now spending most of the time to improve AI skills. They say they have noticed that while recruiting, some companies specify proficiency in AI devices. So he thinks that getting such AI skills will “make it easier” to find a full -time job.