The_King Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 As Ru Paul famously sang ‘You better work’, and China’s richest man is using this line of attack to get the most of his staff who are expected to work 72 hour weeks. Jack Ma, founder of online marketplace Alibaba, has praised the company’s brutal ‘996’ schedule that expects employees to work 12-hour shifts from 9am to 9pm six days a week. While many may baulk at the idea of spending 72 hours out of a possible 168 in a week at the workplace, Ma has called the ‘996’ a ‘huge blessing’ for workers, the MailOnlinereports. He posted the shocking comments in the company’s WeChat account: I personally think that being able to work 996 is a huge blessing. Many companies and many people don’t have the opportunity to work 996. If you don’t work 996 when you are young, when can you ever work 996? The comments have started an online debate and protests towards working conditions on some coding platforms, where some employees have shared examples of excessive demands from employers. Ma, a former English teacher, founded Alibaba in 1999, and has taken a Monty Python ‘Four Yorkshiremen’ approach to explain how when he were a lad, he regularly worked long hours. Ma said: In this world, everyone wants success, wants a nice life, wants to be respected. Let me ask everyone, if you don’t put out more time and energy than others, how can you achieve the success you want? Compared to them, up to this day, I still feel lucky, I don’t regret (working 12 hour days), I would never change this part of me. Activists this month launched a project titled ‘996.ICU’ on Microsoft’s development platform, GitHub, where tech workers have listed Alibaba among companies with the worst working conditions. An opinion piece by an unnamed employee in the People’s Daily, a state newspaper, argued ‘996’ violates China’s Labour Law that stipulates average work hours should not exceed 40 hours a week. The article stated: Creating a corporate culture of ‘encouraged overtime’ will not only not help a business’ core competitiveness, it might inhibit and damage a company’s ability to innovate. And that’s not even touching on what awful effects these hours could have on the well-being of the human beings doing the work. The Mental Health Foundation report mental health related stress in the UK costs 10.4 million working days per year. How employees are expected to have any kind of work-life balance in a 72-hour work week is a concern and a mystery. https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/chinas-richest-man-expects-staff-to-work-72-hours-a-week/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chamfer Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Siao.... 72 hours per week really no life and is like selling the soul to the company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XianGe Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 As usual slavery mindset from Asian boss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camper Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Jack Ma and his bull crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Standing Birdy Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 moi not working in alibaba but work more than 996:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XianGe Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 10 minutes ago, Standing Birdy said: moi not working in alibaba but work more than 996:( But most impt is got the rewards anot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaur4man Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 How did he get rich first....by working 996? Fuck no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_King Posted April 14, 2019 Author Share Posted April 14, 2019 why will a businessman help another businessman to get rich? so that both can have a 50-50 market share? who listen to all this. then good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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