"Why Are the Results Like This? Hong Kong Company Power Abuse Scandal with Mutual Slapping"

An Employee Who Attended the Dinner Exposes on SNS
CEO Says "For Motivation," Netizens Outraged

An employee of an insurance company in Hong Kong revealed that "the boss made employees with poor performance slap each other," sparking criticism and anger toward the insurance company’s president.

On the 29th (local time), according to Hong Kong media South China Morning Post (SCMP), the president of a Hong Kong insurance company made employees with poor performance come up on stage during the company’s annual dinner and slap each other. It is reported that about 20 employees slapped each other at the boss’s request.

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This fact became known to the public after an employee who attended the dinner exposed it on social networking services (SNS).

Netizens who saw the story responded with sharp criticism, saying things like "This is so shocking," "If it were me, I would never slap a colleague. I would shout to fire him immediately," and "Which insurance company is this? I will cancel my insurance right away."

As criticism toward the company continued, the president defended himself by saying, "It was for motivation." However, SCMP reported that this statement only fueled netizens’ anger toward the president.

Meanwhile, a Chinese company also sparked controversy by conducting a bizarre training where employees were made to repeatedly slap their own cheeks to improve sales performance.

On October 28, 2020, the Chinese daily newspaper Nanfang Daily released a video on social media platform Weibo showing dozens of male and female employees dressed in black kneeling in a line, looking at other employees opposite them, shouting, and slapping their own cheeks wildly.

In the video, they continuously shouted loudly or hit the floor with their fists and palms while slapping their cheeks. Some punched the air, and one man took off his shirt and repeatedly threw it toward the floor as if throwing something.

Cases of employees suffering corporal punishment and harsh treatment in China have been reported multiple times, causing controversy. According to the British daily Daily Mail, a beauty salon in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, was criticized for making employees slap their own cheeks 100 times and then eat spicy peppers and run 10 km because their performance was insufficient.

Also, in 2019, a company in Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, was investigated by the police for making employees crawl on the street because their sales performance did not meet the target.

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