Many citizens who don’t want to explain their employment status pay to rent a position in a fake office, with some even assigning fictitious tasks and organizing supervisory rounds

Is this real? Keeping a routine and going to a place that includes food and shit and you cam do whatever you like is understandable but the fake boss and fake tasks is a little too much

  • ButtBidet [he/him]English
    55•19 days ago

    Maybe I’m being paranoid, but they cite a report from Beijing Youth Daily with no hyperlink, an office with no pictures, and a references to social media posts with no screenshot.

    This could be 100% legit. It’s just that Western press has me second guessing everything.

    • Sleve_McDichael [he/him]English
      22•19 days ago

      El País is basically the New York Times of Spain, it’s at best spinning a grain of truth into a mountain of propaganda, if not outright lying

    • @Joncash2@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9•19 days ago

      Just read the whole article, they admit at the end that it’s really just a shared office space and people mostly go there for collaboration. They obviously cherry picked that one lady that’s there to escape her family.