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    The document discusses the "996" work schedule of 9am to 9pm, six days a week. This schedule has become popular in China's internet industry but is controversial. While some business leaders praise it and see it as necessary, many employees dislike it as it leaves no time for family or personal life. There is a debate around whether such intense overtime should be accepted or considered excessive. The document asks the reader their views on the "996" schedule and their own work hours.

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    22:50, 22/03/2023 What Do You Think Of 996?

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    Du Chinese Lessons / What Do You Think Of 996?

    What Do You Think Of 996?


    This stands for working from 9 AM to 9 PM, 6 days per week. Have you heard of this way to work?

    What Do You Think Of 996?


    Recently, the 996 working day has been popular all over the Internet in China.
    The so-called 996 workday, that is to start work at 9 in the morning, leave work at 9 in the evening, ..
    .. and work 6 days every week.
    Working 12 hours every day, and only being able to rest for 1 day per week.
    Working under such high intensity is normal work for Chinese programmers.
    Some programmer set up a project on the worldwide code repository GitHub, expressing discontent with the 996 workday.
    Shortly within a few days, this said project had obtained numerous programmers’ following and support.
    Soon afterward, large internet companies one after the other issued a response concerning the 996 workday.
    The founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, published a statement commending overworking in this kind of extreme way ..
    .. and furthermore considered this as “not a problem”, but rather a kind of “reward”.
    Following Jack Ma’s speech, for a moment, 996 was pushed to the heart of the storm.
    Employees don’t like the 996 workday.
    According to them, the 996 workday makes them not have time for themselves ..
    .. and also not have time together with their families.
    In addition a lot of people are anxious, in case the 996 workday becomes the accepted working system by companies ..
    .. then if someone leaves work on schedule, they will on the contrary be considered to be a lazy person that doesn’t like to work.
    And yet, many bosses however hold the 996 workday in extraordinary esteem.
    They think that young people should just fight on. If you don’t 996 now, when will you 996?
    How about you then? What do you think of the 996 workday?
    At what time do you go to work every day, at what time do you get off work?
    How many days per week do you work?

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