Shared Employees: A New Approach to Stabilizing Employment in China

Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) temporarily encountering difficulties to resume work are facing great pressure to pay basic wages for employees. Meanwhile, the explosive growth of online shopping demand resulted in a large number of vacancies in job posts such as online retail employees, delivery guys, etc., thus stimulating the emergence of “shared employees.” Against the backdrop of an internet economy, shared employees flow between enterprises to effectively redistribute human resources and offer more jobs for workers.