China public servants use face masks to bypass facial recognition to help each other skip work

Local level government staff make printouts of colleagues' faces to circumvent clocking-in system, triggering backlash. — SCMP

Employees at a neighbourhood committee in China have resorted to printing out images of their colleagues’ faces and using them as masks to circumvent facial recognition clocking-in systems, shocking the online community.

According to Wenzhou City Daily, a resident surnamed Li reported several members of staff at the committee in Wenzhou City, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, for using these face masks to skip work.