{"id":24624,"date":"2015-08-21T16:01:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T14:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=24624"},"modified":"2015-08-21T16:01:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T14:01:45","slug":"cheerleaders-for-techies-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/21\/cheerleaders-for-techies-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheerleaders for techies in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Here<\/a> is something you don’t read every day:<\/p>\n

Internet companies across China are embracing programming cheerleaders, pretty, talented girls that help create a fun work environment. Their job includes buying programmers breakfast, chitchatting and playing ping-pong with them.<\/p>\n

According to the HR manager of an Internet company that hired three such cheerleaders, its programmers are mostly male and terrible at socializing, and the presence of these girls have greatly improved their job efficiency and motivation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Here is something you don’t read every day: Internet companies across China are embracing programming cheerleaders, pretty, talented girls that help create a fun work environment. Their job includes buying programmers breakfast, chitchatting and playing ping-pong with them. According to the HR manager of an Internet company that hired three such cheerleaders, its programmers are … Continue reading Cheerleaders for techies in China<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Cheerleaders for techies in China #work #office #China","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[1971,139,1079,17],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-24624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-china","tag-office","tag-productivity","tag-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9465,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/17\/man-of-the-house\/","url_meta":{"origin":24624,"position":0},"title":"Man of the House","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 17, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Man of the House\" is one of the new movies that got in my hands. 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