{"id":13111,"date":"2015-10-01T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13111"},"modified":"2015-10-01T08:54:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T12:54:53","slug":"personal-cheerleaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/personal-cheerleaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Cheerleaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100115_1253_PersonalChe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lauren O&#8217;Neil wrote about a troubling practice in Chinese tech companies that&#8217;s gaining attention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s been reported that some Chinese tech companies are hiding attractive young women to act as &#8220;programming cheerleaders&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>These girls are there to socialize with employees during their breaks, play ping-pong with them, and bring them things like food when they need it.<\/li>\n<li>The HR department of a company that hired three of them stated that it was because its male programmers had troubles socializing, and the girls were there to increase motivation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the outrage and fallout <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/trending\/chinese-tech-companies-hire-office-cheerleaders-to-motivate-programmers-1.3202020\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/trending\/chinese-tech-companies-hire-office-cheerleaders-to-motivate-programmers-1.3202020\">CBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2015\/09\/assorted-thursday-links-2.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren O&#8217;Neil wrote about a troubling practice in Chinese tech companies that&#8217;s gaining attention: It&#8217;s been reported that some Chinese tech companies are hiding attractive young women to act as &#8220;programming cheerleaders&#8221;. These girls are there to socialize with employees during their breaks, play ping-pong with them, and bring them things like food when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100115_1253_PersonalChe1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13113,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111\/revisions\/13113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}