‘Slap your colleague in the face’: Hong Kong firm employs violence as a ‘motivational tool’ for lax staff, shocking social media
- Insurance company boss tells poor-performing staff to get on stage at annual company dinner and slap each other in the face for ‘motivation’
- Firm faces a barrage of criticism over strategy with many online observers likening it to a cult
A humiliating – and violent – “motivational” strategy employed by a Hong Kong company has shocked many on social media.
Interest in the insurance firm’s “unique” manner of motivating staff was first piqued by an anonymous online poster.
His revelations were posted on a Facebook page where people share their experiences of injustice in the workplace.
The poster, who said he worked for an insurance company, said that at the firm’s annual dinner, underperforming employees were asked to slap each other in the face.
He explained that in an attempt to boost motivation, a company supervisor urged around a dozen “poor performers” who were not selling enough insurance to split up into pairs on stage and “slap your colleague in the face”.
The poster explained how, on receiving the instruction, everyone “froze for a few seconds” before proceeding to slap their colleagues: “I wonder if this is a crime?” he asked.
