A disturbing video of a Chinese bank’s effort to improve employee performance — through public, violent spankings of employees — was posted yesterday in a BBC article. The video, which will make even the most hardened U.S. compliance officer cringe, shows a line of employees from Changzhi Rural Commercial Bank being subjected to an awful “team-building” workshop in which a corporate trainer spanks them with a paddle in front of a roomful of over 200 of their co-workers.
According to the BBC, the trainer asked the different employees why they are “ranked the lowest today” before spanking them. The employees responded with answers such as “[b]ecause I have not exceeded myself,” “I did not coordinate with my team” and “I lacked courage.” Shanghaist reports that after the third round of spankings, one of the women on stage tried to “shield herself from the coming blow, but the [trainer] warns her to ‘remove your hand!'”
