WALKER: Welcome back. A bank in China is struggling to explain a really bizarre video from a corporate team-building exercise.</s>VAUSE: It shows employees being physically punished for their poor performance. Linda Kinkade has the details.</s>LYNDA KINKADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The video is painful to watch. Asian employees of a bank in China stand on stage in front of their colleagues after finishing at the bottom of a team-building exercise. A corporate coach wielding a long wooden paddle, shouts at the four men and four women. Then he begins to --</s>KINKADE (voice-over): -- strike them on their rear end, the paddle landing each time with a loud crack. He walks up and down the lines, spanking each of the bank employees, a total of four times. One hit throws a woman off balance. She cries out. Some members of the audience can be seen turning their heads away in embarrassment. Posted on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, the video has gone viral, triggering a storm of criticism directed at the bank. The corporate coach has now apologized, saying he should improve his teaching methods. And the bank's supervisory board says it's removed two executives from their post -- Linda Kinkade, CNN.</s>VAUSE: Here is a tip: don't work at that bank. Seriously. Oh, my God.</s>WALKER: Spanking sounds more like a beating. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm Amara Walker.</s>VAUSE: I'm John Vause. The news continues with Rosemary Church after a short break.
Video Shows Paddling of China Bank Workers.