One of China’s biggest video apps, Kuaishou, once installed sensors in toilets to monitor how long employees took in the bathroom. Now the company has put an end to six day work weeks for tech staff, shortly after ByteDance — which owns China’s dominant short video platform — decided to continue the practice.
In a fresh attempt to address employee burnout and change China’s overwork culture, a video game developer owned by Chinese internet giant Tencent has introduced a set of policies designed to prevent employees from working excessive hours and encourage them to use vacation time.
The movie "Fast & Furious 9" took in $135 million at the box office in China on the weekend. But now one of its stars is apologizing to his Chinese fans for his “mistake” in referring to Taiwan as a country.
A celebrity boss who overworks her employees has sparked another discussion on Chinese social media about the country’s severe lack of work life balance.
The intense backlash against Pinduoduo is a searing demonstration of growing public anger over the work culture in China’s tech sector.
China’s tech industry has again been forced to confront its work culture after the sudden death of a young employee at ecommerce company Pinduoduo, who collapsed last week while walking home at midnight after working long hours.
Former employees of Chinese internet firms are engaged in a culture war with their colleagues at Microsoft China about work-life balance.
China’s young professionals prefer staying in, to the nightlife industry’s dismay
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