Working nine to nine: Chinese tech employees push back against very long hours
Staff at Alibaba, Huawei and other well-known companies have shared evidence of unpaid compulsory overtime
Chinese tech employees have pushed back against a wave of protest over the industry’s notoriously long hours, known as the “996” schedule of working from 9am to 9pm, six days a week.
For months, former and current employees of some of the country’s most well-known companies had been posting evidence of unpaid, often compulsory or heavily encouraged overtime on the code-sharing platform Github.