Wenzhou firms wow job seekers with perks
Free meals with fruit, a dormitory with air-conditioning and TV, plus holidays. These are the enticing job conditions offered on the vacancy board for migrant workers by a private shoe-making factory in East China's Zhejiang province.
Plush benefits have allowed some companies such as Dongyi Shoes Co Ltd to fend off a surprising labor shortage that has struck the manufacturing center of Wenzhou in Zhejiang since the second quarter. Many private businesses are savvy enough to optimize work conditions to attract laborers, said Wang Ouxiang, deputy secretary of the Employment Service Center in Wenzhou.
"Factories in the city are thirsty for laborers, but the Dongyi Shoes Co Ltd did not have much trouble in recruiting workers because the company can offer comfortable work conditions, which have become an increasingly important factor for the new generation of rural laborers when choosing a job," he said.
