Chinese workers post their working hours online and campaign against ‘996’ corporate culture


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A group of private sector employees in China promotes an Internet campaign to record the accumulation of working hours that many workers are forced to fulfill, in protest of the country’s strenuous work culture. The campaign, called ‘Worker Lives Matter’, asks employees from various sectors to share in an online document, similar to an Excel sheet, the time they start and end their workday labor, as well as the number of days they work per week. “We workers need to live too!”, claim the campaign page on the GitHub software collaboration site. The initiative was born after the recent demands...