Global Q&A: ‘Do You Think Work Internships Should Be Paid or Volunteer?’

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil: João Paulo Alves Santana, 29, Project Analyst: I think that internships should be paid, because with these relations and exchange of knowledge, the company wins by having an employee with theoretical professional experience from college or at a technical level, so some innovative and beneficial processes can be applied. The educational institutions and students also gain professional knowledge; working in a company and learning all the relevant processes to their maturation thus can stimulate the best embodiment (of them).

Payment for internships is favored to cover living costs, and as an incentive to perform well, except where an income is already being received. This is what Epoch Times reporters from areas such as Brazil to Sweden discovered when they asked locals, “Do you think work internships should be paid or volunteer?”

Look for the Global Q&A column every week. Epoch Times correspondents interview people around the world to learn about their lives and perspectives on local and global realities. Next week’s global question, “How do you feel about zoos?”