Alibaba Group co-founder Jack Ma attends Alibaba Group's 11.11 Singles' Day global shopping festival in Shanghai on Nov. 12, 2018.Alibaba Group founder and billionaire Jack Ma has defended the gruelling overtime work culture at many of China’s tech companies, calling it a “huge blessing” for young workers.
In a speech to Alibaba employees, Ma defended the industry’s ’996’ work schedule, which refers to the 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. workday, six days a week.“I personally think that being able to work 996 is a huge blessing,” he said in remarks posted on the company’s WeChat account. The issue has fuelled an online debate and protests on some coding platforms, where workers have swapped examples of excessive overtime demands at some companies.
Ma referred to the tech industry today where some people are without jobs, or working at companies in search of revenue or facing closure.“Compared to them, up to this day, I still feel lucky, I don’t regret , I would never change this part of me,” he said.
globebusiness Sickening. The psychopaths running the operations in most cies have no remorse and no conscience. There's only one language they understand...and I won't mention it since I'll be banned from Big brother Twitter.
globebusiness Voluntary overtime is one thing.......forced overtime is not a blessing no matter how you try to spin it. I guess some people lose sight of where reality really is. Success is not always graded on the number of dollars you have. I guess he hasn't seen the suicide rates!
globebusiness Sick man