996.ICU

No. The 996 working culture in this page is actually *996.ICU*. "Work by '996', sick in ICU", an ironic saying among Chinese developers, which means that by following the "996" work schedule (9 am to 9 pm, six days a week), you are risking yourself getting into the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). [1] Take a step further, do you want to overwork to death if you have other choices? One of the reasons behind 277k stars in 996.icu repo is that 996 working culture literally takes over every single corporations in China. With the downturn of China economy and the selective execution of Chinese labor law, in recent years, 996 becomes even harsher to labor force in China because there are more than overwork now, e.g. low salary and low human rights. When you say 'make the average consumer better off', you conveniently ignore the tears, sweets, and blo

This was a movement from a time when the IT industry still held promise for the future (7 years ago): https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU Now they are just thinking about to not to lose their jobs now. Even worse working environment.

The Chinese government has direct access to the WeChat backend so it's unlikely that these weaknesses were government mandated. Probably just the result of overworked 996 developers: >The name 996.ICU refers to "Work by '996', sick in ICU", an ironic saying among Chinese developers, which means that by following the "996" work schedule, you are risking yourself getting into the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU

The 996 Github Repo is one of the Top Starred https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU

Note that Jack Ma, alibaba founder, romanticized 996 as a blessing of fortune [1,2]. 996 being another hallmark of toxic working culture in China, signaling the potential of more troublesome culture issue at alibaba and many other big corps. [1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/business/jack-ma-996-china/in... [2] https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU#capitalists

As a arm-chair historian, I feel there has always been an ebb and flow of balanced-working versus over-working. For example, reading stories of Carnegie's steel plants with 12-hours work days, 7 days a week in 1894: >> The demanding conditions sapped the life from workers. "You don't notice any old men here," said a Homestead laborer in 1894. "The long hours, the strain, and the sudden changes of temperature use a man up." Sociologist John A. Fitch called it "old age at forty." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carnegi... Modern times show us the '996 icu' work culture rising: https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU My greatest fear is that there will not be enough jobs for everyone, and Andrew Yang's proposal for UBI will become even more important, but the 'cult of over-working' will keep it from ever being implemented: htt

For the uninitiated https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU 996 doesn’t sound bad at all if it’s my own Company and I’m not constantly worried about Cash flow or run rate. Maybe that’s why in the quotes they say stuff like “996 is a blessing” :P

Not Iranian but a very famous repo is the 996 repo https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU (>250k stars) which advocates for Chinese Developers working a 996 schedule. Depending on where you look you can find a lot of political content on Github from all over the world.

A reminder that Jack Ma is a supporter of the 996 working schedule, which is hazardous to one's wellbeing and illegal under PRC labour laws. https://996.icu/#/en_US https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/3/18294030/tencent-xiaomi-ch... https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/pull/24891

https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU "The name 996.ICU refers to "Work by '996', sick in ICU", an ironic saying among Chinese developers, which means that by following the "996" work schedule, you are risking yourself getting into the ICU (Intensive Care Unit)."

This resource (while mainly targeted at improving insane Chinese work schedules) is about work-life balance: https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/blob/master/README.md

The "Anti 996 Licence" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system and https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/blob/master/LICENSE ) has caused me to re-think what it means to say that a license is "for freedom." For example, a software license could support freedom to unionize. The GPL does not. I've decided to strictly use "software freedom", in order to avoid confusion with the much broader topic of "freedom". (BTW, many 'source available' licenses support your right to modify and run your software, if that's really all you want. Free software also includes the right to redistribute the software, including with modifications and in commercial sales, and without needing additional permissions from the original copyright owners.)