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Lead an office life
(chinanews.cn)
Updated: 2006-07-24 09:15





According to a report by the China News Weekly, Chinese white collars are
becoming fully occupied in the office. They pursue many of their
activities in the office building, eating, doing exercises, resting,
playing games or even dating. Their working companies also like to create
a humane environment in the office so that staff members can complete the
office work while doing some personal activities at the same time.

For these young people, they tend to go off work at a later time day by
day, and in the end, they just don��t want to go home. In large cities
such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing, where economy is
developing at a fast speed, office workers face an increasing work
pressure day by day and many of them have begun to make office their home.

As the young generation in society, most of them are aged between 25 and
45. Most of them work in the IT sector, advertisement design industry,
media, profession training industry, or corporate management. In the eyes
of outsiders, they enjoy a comfortable life: they lead the fashion trend
in the city and earn a high salary. They enjoy a flexible working
schedule and a very good working environment. Having a good education
background, the white collars don't have to worry lest they lose their
jobs.

However, only the white collars themselves know what others see as a good
life is in fact a boring life. They often work for extra hours, suffer
from loss of creative capability and have little time to make friends.
When they go off from work late at night, sometimes they might think of
asking for a leave the next day and having a holiday somewhere. However,
when a new day begins, they find everything back to normal and themselves
pushed by new tasks.

In fact, even if they don't work for extra hours in the office, they have
no place to go. Many of the young people are fresh from college, or have
come to work in large cities from their hometowns. Their parents are not
with them. If they don��t cook their own meals, they may have nothing to
eat for dinner. As newcomers, they haven��t established a social network.
They have few friends to chat with, and don��t have much chance to go
dating. Even if they might have a chance to relax and find people to chat
with, these people are often than not their own colleagues.

Meanwhile, many of them face a great pressure for earning money to buy a
house or a car. If they cannot afford to buy these, they still have to
work to pay for high apartment rents and communication fares. For young
persons who have just graduated from college and earn a low income, all
these are enough to make them live a modest life.
















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