China tech worker's death reignites industry overtime debate

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BEIJING: The sudden death of a young employee at a Chinese Internet giant has reignited a debate about the gruelling culture of overtime work in China's tech industry, with

The hashtag"Bilibili worker suddenly died after working overtime during Lunar New Year" went viral on the Twitter-like Weibo platform on Monday when a workplace blogger reported the man's death, citing anonymous colleagues claiming that he was forced to work overtime.

"Is it that hard to give a sincere apology? Does my brother's 20something-year-old life not count?" she wrote, in a post that gained more than 870,000 likes. The firm said that the employee died of a brain haemorrhage last Friday evening, having sought medical treatment after he did not show up to work that afternoon.

 

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