People Changing Jobs Too Often Could Be Punished by China's Social Credit System

Lots of things can hurt your social credit in China. Failing to repay your debts, plagiarizing academic articles and building a debt-laden tech empire and then fleeing to another country, to name a few random examples. One province now wants to add another 'discredited behavior' that seems much more harmless: Switching jobs too often. From a report: Zhejiang is pushing to build a local social credit system that will, among other things, deem residents a 'discredited' person if they move from job to job too frequently, according to a local TV report. 'If someone keeps quitting and landing new jobs, his social credit will definitely be a problem,' Zhejiang official Ge Pingan said at a local forum, addressing a complaint from one company's human resources department about being unable to do anything when employees want to leave. Ge didn't specify how 'frequently' is too frequent, but he said the upcoming system will put restrictions on both companies and individual workers.

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