‘Just a game’: China firm tells employees to crawl along street in humiliating team bonding activity they ‘volunteered’ to endure
- Video gets 4 million views, shows staff on all fours, paying ‘penalty’
- Chinese labour law bans physical punishment by businesses
A company in China which asked its staff to crawl down the street at night after they failed at a team-bonding game has shocked mainland social media.
A video clip that has attracted 4 million views on Douyin, shows a group of young people on all fours making their way along a street in southern China’s Guizhou province, on January 3.
The person who posted the video said he initially thought they were having a meeting, then they suddenly began crawling – “seems to be some slave company’s punishment for its staff,” he said.
Local police said they had talked to the company’s boss and employees, who told them it was “just the penalty for a team-bonding game” and all the staff had “volunteered” for the extreme activity.
Social media was shocked by the bizarre company team-bonding event and the employees’ response.
“I thought I was watching a zombie movie,” one viewer commented.
