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Staff at Chinese internet firm Lianlian are told how to use an inflatable sex doll, given to young men working for the company instead of a tradition cash bonus, at Sunday’s company annual conference. Photo: Guangming Daily
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Chinese company offers young men inflatable sex dolls as annual staff bonus instead of cash

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Sidney Leng
Sidney Leng
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Inflatable sex dolls were offered to young men working at a Chinese company as an alternative to the traditional annual cash bonuses that businesses give staff at this time of year, mainland media reports.

Some bosses have also given out train tickets, 2.5 kg of pork, flip-flops and karaoke coupons as an alternative to money, the state-run newspaper Guangming Daily reported.

A young man working at the Guangzhou company lies down with an inflatable sex doll presented by his company instead of a cash bonus. Photo: Guangming Daily
Younger staff in their 20s at Lianlian, a Guangzhou-based internet company that develops a mobile app offering virtual romance to users, had received the blow-up sex dolls, with flip-flops, popular Chinese spicy sauces and dehumidifiers were given out as bonuses, the report said.
Another employee at the Guangzhou company’s annual conference holds up the annual bonus of an inflatable sex doll. Photo: Guangming Daily

Wang Yuzhu, Lianlian’s chief executive, said the blow-up dolls had been prepared especially for single men working at the company, who had been shown how to use them at the company’s annual conference on Sunday.

Other bonuses given to staff included popular Chinese spicy sauces (above) and dehumidifiers. Photo: Guangming Daily
Gifts such as flip-flops had been presented because they were convenient when working in Guangzhou, where the weather was often hot and humid.

An annual bonus survey of white-collar workers in Guangzhou showed that 11 per cent of the respondents received real items instead of cash bonuses in 2015, and overall were less satisfied with these bonuses than the bonuses they had received in 2014, the Guangzhou Daily reported.

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Among those surveyed that received cash bonuses, nearly half of respondents said their bonus had been less than 5,000 yuan (HK$6,000), the report said.

The survey also found that the longer people were working, the less satisfied they felt about their bonuses.


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