‘Cushy’ cemetery job gives Chinese university grad work-life balance, no office politics — sparking careers debate online

Video of sleepy mountainside cemetery workplace goes viral, taps into growth of ‘slacking-off’ culture among China’s young workforce. Fresh graduate, 22, says: ‘It’s a simple and cushy job. There are cats and dogs and the Internet’. — SCMP

The decision of a Chinese university graduate to take a job in a cemetery to achieve a better work-life balance and avoid office politics has shocked many and triggered an online debate on the work preferences of Generation Z in China.

The woman, surnamed Tan, 22, became the talk of mainland social media after proudly sharing video images of her “peaceful” workplace – a mountainside cemetery in western China’s Chongqing municipality – on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, last week.