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This Perfectly Captures Chinese People’s Nostalgia for Life Before Overwork
Buckling under the pressure to work 12-hour days, Chinese millennials are reminiscing about the life of their parents’ generation.
Overworking and Humiliation Are Rampant in China’s Toxic Workplaces
Amid cut-throat competition in the education system and workforce, phenomena like ‘996 culture’ and ‘involution’ have come to dominate the public consciousness.
Chinese Workers Are Trying to Bake Fair Labor Practices Into Software
The 996.ICU movement has largely organized on GitHub, and has produced a software license aimed at forcing companies to treat workers fairly if they use open source software.
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