{"id":352618,"date":"2025-08-17T21:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352618\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T21:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:41:12","slug":"china-pretend-work-firm-offers-shared-office-space-for-us4-a-day-promotes-personal-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352618\/","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:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/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":352619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[6212,88487,7889,51,45423,1395,16536,5719,11895,578,1322,124496,18223,1700,87204,17270,5899,124497,3082,29306,124495,124499,26113,124498,124493,74346,9767,124491,124494,11498,19271,124492,811,22468,182,33875,20498,14299,3839,16,5664,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-352618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-account","9":"tag-air-conditioning","10":"tag-boss","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-cafe","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-chinese","15":"tag-cities","16":"tag-code-of-conduct","17":"tag-coffee","18":"tag-company","19":"tag-downturn","20":"tag-economic","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-fake","23":"tag-firm","24":"tag-free","25":"tag-graduating","26":"tag-internet","27":"tag-jewellery","28":"tag-job-pressure","29":"tag-jobless","30":"tag-library","31":"tag-lunch-boxes","32":"tag-monthly-package","33":"tag-office-space","34":"tag-personal-growth","35":"tag-pretend","36":"tag-registered","37":"tag-romance","38":"tag-routine","39":"tag-second-tier","40":"tag-security","41":"tag-smoking","42":"tag-social-media","43":"tag-staff","44":"tag-statistics","45":"tag-summer","46":"tag-survey","47":"tag-uk","48":"tag-unemployment","49":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}