China's richest man expects staff to work 72 hours a week
As Ru Paul sang charming & # 39; you work better & # 39; and China's richest man uses this attack line to get the most out of his staff expected to work 72 hours a week.
Jack Ma, founder of online marketplace Alibaba has praised the company's brutal "996" plan, which expects employees to work 12-hour shifts from noon. 9am to 9pm six days a week.
While many may think of the idea of spending 72 hours out of a possible 168 in a UK workplace, Ma has called "996" a "great blessing" for workers, MailOnline reports.
He wrote out the shocking comments in the company's WeChat account:
I personally believe It is possible to work 996 is a great blessing.
Many companies and many people do not have the opportunity to work 996. If you do not work 996 when you are young, when can you ever work 996? [19659007] The comments have started an online debate and protest against the working conditions of some cow Ma, a former English teacher, founded Alibaba in 1999, and has taken a Monty Python & # 39; Four Yorkshirms & # 39; Approach to explaining how when he was a boy, he worked regularly for a long time.
Ma said:
In this world everyone wants to succeed, want a nice life, will be respected.
Let me ask everyone, if you do not spend more time and energy than others, how can you achieve the success you want?
Compared to them, until today, I still feel lucky, I'm not sorry (working 12 hours days), I will never change this part of me.
Activists this month launched a project entitled "996.ICU" on Microsoft's development platform, GitHub, where tech workers have listed Alibaba among companies with the worst working conditions.
An opinion picture of a named employee ee in People's Daily a state newspaper, claiming that "996" violates China's labor laws that set average working hours should not exceed 40 hours a week.
The article stated:
Creating a corporate culture of "encouraged overtime" will not only help a company's core competitiveness, it can hamper and damage a company's ability to innovate.
And it is not even touching what terrible effects these hours may have on the well
Mental health fund reports mental health personnel stress in the UK costs 10.4 million working days per year.
How employees are expected to have some kind of work-life balance in a 19-hour work week is a concern and a mystery.
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Tim Horner
Tim Horner is a sub-editor at UNILAD. He graduated with BA journalism from University College Falmouth before most of his colleagues were born. A former editor of adult mags, he now enjoys bringing down the tone of the viral news sector.
