CHONGQING: A group of employees at Chongqing Meixin Group have rolled up their sleeves and pants and waded into a paddy field on their factory building’s rooftop.
They were taking part in an activity that has been organised by the company for four years, with the aim of helping staff members decompress after long hours of work.
They caught fish and planted rice seedlings 33 m above the ground at Happy Farm, a 20,000-sq-m ecosystem created by Meixin, a door manufacturer headquartered in Chongqing’s Nan’an district.
The farm produces crops like rice, rapeseed and lotus root and also features a one-km artificial river teeming with fish and shrimp.
The factory was selected as one of the fourth batch of “national green factories” by the Industry and Information Technology Ministry in 2019.
A survey of employees’ emotional status last year by recruitment portal 51Job found that changes brought about by factors such as digitalisation, deflation and the Covid-19 pandemic in the past few years had made “change fatigue” and “quiet quitting” a common phenomena. — China Daily/ANN