‘996’ work culture: China’s Supreme People’s Court blasts excessive overtime
CNNHong Kong/Beijing CNN Business — China is putting companies that overwork their employees on notice. The country’s top court on Thursday issued a lengthy condemnation of what’s commonly known in China as “996,” the practice of working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week that is said to be common among the country’s big technology companies, startups and other private businesses. “Recently, extreme overtime work in some industries has received widespread attention,” the Supreme People’s Court wrote in its statement, which it issued with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, for example, was heavily criticized in China two years ago after he called 996 culture a “huge blessing.” And Chinese labor law already prohibits employees from working that long. Recently young people in China have also begun rejecting an intense work culture by invoking a desire to “lie flat,” or “tang ping.” The philosophy calls on people to reject societal pressures to work hard, get married, have children or buy property because of the diminishing rewards of achieving such goals.
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