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Unemployed young people in China are pretending to have jobs by paying for a service that hides their out-of-work status from their loved ones.

The "pretend to work" service which costs around 30 yuan (US$4) per day imitates what your typical 9-5 job would look like, and this includes a fake office space, lunch, Wi-Fi, complimentary snacks, and even staged interactions with faux supervisors, according to outlets Radii and South China Morning Post.