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Beijing Company Makes Female Staff Kiss the Boss Every Day

This so-called “team-building activity” has caused a storm of criticism on Chinese social media.

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10 years ago

October 9, 2016

Standing in line to kiss the boss every day at 9:00 AM – while it probably is not the ideal morning routine for everyone, it is an everyday reality for one Chinese company. This so-called “team-building activity” has caused a storm of criticism on Chinese social media.

On 8 October, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV published a short articleon its Sina Weibo account titled “Beijing Company Makes Female Staff Kiss the Boss Every Day.”…

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Diandian Guo is a China-born Master student of transdisciplinary and global society, politics & culture at the University of Groningen with a special interest for new media in China. She has a BA in International Relations from Beijing Foreign Language University, and is specialized in China's cultural memory.

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