🎬 CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: Chinese Company Gives Every New Employee Their Own Cat! (Podcast Exclusive)

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
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what's on the cutting room floor today?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
How do you go about making sure your employees stay
for a long time? I mean, you can be nice
to them, You can be generous with them. You can
offer kind of kinds of you can give them ticks,
you can offer some kinds of incentives. What about this
this emotional incentive that this company in China is doing.

(00:53):
The Chinese company is getting its employees free kittens, bussycats.
So employees are encouraged to continue working at the company
with their kittens, and if you leave, you have to
hand the cat bag. Because they found that people are
happier when they've got cats. People in China are loving cats,

(01:13):
loving kittens, so they're seeing that this improves moods in
the workplace, improves loneliness, all those kinds of things. So
being given a kitten so look after or hopefully keep
people working at their jobs for longer.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
But if you leave the company, they take the cat back.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Apparently so, but it says here it seems that this
increases the likelihood of workers staying with a company for
a cat's full lifetime, usually from thirteen to twenty years.
Employees will remain at the same workplace around thirteen to
fourteen years, longer than usual.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Because they've got the cat.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
You've got that cat. Yeah right, yeah? Would you say
at a job because you loved your cat? I love cats.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, we had two cats. They're both passed away, but.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I did love me. I should leave very very much.
So were nice cats. So I've got all these pictures.
You have a look, you've got a print out there.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yep, these are cute little cats.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Everyone gets a kit, and if you quit, you have
to return the cat. It says here, they're saying, would
this be persuasive for you? Because creativity to keep people
working with you is utmost. How do you go about that?
And look, maybe giving a kitten away is the way
to do it. I don't think it'd work here because
it'd be seen as cruelty that who then looks after
some cranky old cat that comes back ten years later.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
I take that.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
With those rspc A cats, you know you can get
a real ale over the cat.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
What about but what if you ended up with pinky?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Remember Pinky the cat from the Sheriff's department over there
in the US of A.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Hey, this is Pinky. He's a male cat, domestic short hair.
He's available for a doction. He's Pair of the week
Classic County Animal Shop. He's a very loving cat.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Stinky, Pinky, Well welcome, we got wild cat.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
That's a pussy item. But that encourage you to stay
at your job. I don't know. That's like working with
you every day, Brendan. I don't know if I could
do it. Of course you do and you love it.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Hey, okay, Katsy, that's it fun today. Come back tomorrow
from long If Joseie and a man's trying to roun tall,
you jail, you jail, you jail.