Originally posted on RadicalxChange https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/2019-05-31-tz001w/ by Suji Yan & Katt Gu, May 31, 2019The Origins of 996.ICU996, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week. ‘996’ became the unofficial working schedule in many Chinese tech companies, including tech giants like Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba (BAT) in recent years. Such inhuman work schedules has led to much suffering, with some tech sector employees ending up in intensive care units or, tragically, committing su...

Originally posted on RadicalxChange https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/2019-05-31-tz001w/ by Suji Yan & Katt Gu, May 31, 2019The Origins of 996.ICU996, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week. ‘996’ became the unofficial working schedule in many Chinese tech companies, including tech giants like Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba (BAT) in recent years. Such inhuman work schedules has led to much suffering, with some tech sector employees ending up in intensive care units or, tragically, committing su...