From pretend offices to hiding under beds, young Chinese are going to extraordinary lengths to conceal their unemployment.
Wari Gewa’s video shows the 28-year-old from China’s eastern Jiangsu province beginning her day by sliding into a coffin-like space hidden beneath her bed.
She turns on the fairy lights strung across the ceiling of the cramped space and opens her laptop to watch a movie. For the next eight hours, Wari, her online nickname, hides away from her family, too ashamed, she says, to admit she lost her job.
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