A handful of major Chinese companies like home appliance maker Midea have new badges of honour this year: mandatory clock-off times for staff and bans on after-hours meetings.

Facing a hyper competitve job market and stagnating wages, a growing number of Chinese are dropping out, spending entire days ...

In 2019 Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, an internet giant, famously defended the “996” work culture—9am to 9pm, six days a ...

A handful of major Chinese companies like home appliance maker Midea have new badges of honour this year: mandatory clock-off ...

a sharp contrast to "996" or the practice of working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week - famously called a "huge blessing" by Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma and an integral part of its tech sector ...

In China, this counts as radical corporate messaging, a sharp contrast to "996" or the practice of working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week - famously called a "huge blessing" by Alibaba ...