Originally Posted by
flyerred
Is there some distinction between which companies, or types of companies, will provide housing and which will not? It's hard for me to imagine that a multinational employer like McDonalds would provide direct housing to employees, or that a mall clothing store like Giordanos is providing housing to all it's young staff.
Having lived in the US my entire life, the idea that a restaurant or retail company would provide housing to its staff is so unbelievably interesting to me.
I work for an MNC that uses a staffing agency for some more mundane basic admin/office tasks such as preparing mailers, pasting fapiao/receipts in some company stipulated format, etc. We pay the agency 3000RMB for a full time worker, I think the worker gets maybe half that, but they have housing provided for. So I won't be surprised if many companies do so indirectly when using employment/staffing agencies.
Even though the dorm conditions may appear dreary to us, when you talk to these workers, they are quite happy to have a decent job, in my case it would even be a job in a safe, comfortable working environment. Those who need housing are always from other cities and provinces, and this arrangement provides them with a social support network they otherwise would not have on their own.