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Why is the 996 work week prevalent in China? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've heard that working 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week is widely accepted in China. Why is this?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

not anymore it seems

A business unit of Tencent said last month that its employees were now required to leave the office by 6 p.m. on Wednesdays and 9 p.m. on other weekdays. ByteDance announced this month that it would abolish the requirement of working on Saturdays every other week, a common practice at many Chinese companies. After the Didi crackdown, similar announcements kept coming.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

Exactly. In the software industry in particular (an industry that worldwide seems to gather together sociopathic management) 996 culture was a huge deal. It was never a huge deal outside of that.

And the current Chinese leadership prefers to have arrogant billionaire tech heads where they belong: kneeling in service to the people. This crackdown was long overdue (because the previous leadership preferred lining his pockets with arrogant billionaire tech head bribes) and is happening with stunning rapidity.

C.f. the sheer scale of the (utterly bogus) "market value" exsanguination as the Chinese government tells stock speculators to get fucked and forces tech giants to comply with law.