//…according to the Chinese-language news outlet Tech Planet, several other tech giants also provide dating forums or matchmaking services for their employees, including Alibaba, Meituan, and Huawei.
Lik Sam Chan, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who has studied Chinese dating apps, said he had never heard of these programs, but wasn’t surprised by their existence. Before China opened its economy in the late ‘80s, he explained, people’s “work units” (or “danweis”) were the center of most young people’s lives, and in addition to being their place of employment, those units were social organizations that provided dating services for their populations.
Now, he said, some companies are serving a similar role in employees’ lives. At glitzy tech campuses, employees already spend long hours shopping, eating and socializing without ever leaving work. “If you can’t date outside the company, and you can’t, because you’re at the company all the time, then you look inward, and I guess that’s why these services appear.” He said even some factories in China offer matchmaking services to their employees. //
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