Companies drive fake job boom with make-believe interviews, charge clients up to US$7-a-day for a ‘working’ spot
Pretend work companies that help unemployed people fake having a job for a small price are springing up across China.
The trend is particularly prevalent in first and second-tier cities where people rent office space and transform it into “pretend work companies”.
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.
Chen Yingjian owns one such company in Hangzhou, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province.
