Chinese online travel company Trip.com Group has announced a flexible working scheme that will allow its 33,000 employees to work from outside the office for a certain amount of time during the week, reports Caixin. From March 1, employees on the Chinese mainland will have the opportunity to apply to work remotely for one or […]
Category: Employment & Education
Chinese government regulators have again pushed the country’s largest internet platform companies to better safeguard labor rights, the most recent move in an ongoing campaign to rein in the tech sector, reports Caixin. The four central government ministries issued a joint guidance order Friday to 11 internet giants including Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan and Didi, asking […]
One of China’s largest online tutoring companies, New Oriental, has fired around 60,000 workers since regulations came into force that forbade the previously $100 billion-a-year private education industry from turning a profit, reports the Financial Times. Yu Minhong, chair of the New York-listed education group, said it had laid off more than 60% of its […]
Authorities in Beijing will institute an upper limit on fees for after-school tutoring in an attempt to guarantee equal access to school curriculum-based tutoring, as part of attempts to expand the restructuring of the private education sector, reports Caixin. The Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform announced that after-school classes, both online and offline, […]
There was a joke in the old Soviet Union: the future is fixed (and bright), it is the past that keeps changing. The Communist Party today issued a summary of a resolution passed by the 6th plenary session of the 19th Party Congress, addressing the last 100 years and the future in an unprecedented and comprehensive way. […]