Working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week is a 'huge bliss': JackMa draws controversy with call for '996' work culture
HONG KONG - To survive at Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, you need to work 12 hours a day, six days a week.Mr Ma told an internal meeting that Alibaba doesn't need people who look forward to a typical eight-hour office lifestyle, according to a post on Alibaba's official Weibo account.
"To be able to work 996 is a huge bliss," China's richest man said."If you want to join Alibaba, you need to be prepared to work 12 hours a day, otherwise why even bother joining?" Programmers in China protested their labour conditions on the online code-sharing community Github in March under the banner 996.ICU, a topic that quickly became the site's most popular, with more than 211,000 stars.
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