Comment on 996 isn't about productivity, it's about keeping workers' living expenses low
Ledivin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve literally never heard of anyone doing this. I’ve heard of 9 9s, which is 9 hour days with every other Friday off, but that’s obviously the complete opposite of whatever this silly burnout schedule is.
I hope it doesn’t spread outside of China, and I hope it ends (in practice) there soon.
“Although the Chinese Supreme People’s Court ruled 996 illegal in 2021, the practice remains a de facto standard in many private companies due to lax labor law enforcement.”
Laws in China is so funny.
You can “jaywalk”, drive across red lights, have food safety violations, tofu-dreg, and even just ignore One Child Policy (when it was a thing)
Its random and arbitrary enforced.
Which might be a good thing since VPNs traffic often just leaks through anyways, such an… interesting country
Its random and arbitrary enforced.
A direction the US is moving towards…
>Be me
>Be Born in China
>Family moves out of China
>Be in USA
>Fast Forward to January 20, 2025
>Looks around the country
>It’s PRC all over again
artifex@piefed.social 1 day ago
It started in china, and douchebag valley tech bros are now breathlessly trying to make it a thing here so they can have their own little fiefdoms.