{"id":10221,"date":"2021-01-19T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3117911\/pinduoduo-worker-deaths-reignite-debate-996-and-dark-side-china-techs"},"modified":"2021-01-19T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T10:00:15","slug":"pinduoduo-worker-deaths-reignite-debate-on-996-and-the-dark-side-of-china-techs-overwork-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/pinduoduo-worker-deaths-reignite-debate-on-996-and-the-dark-side-of-china-techs-overwork-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinduoduo worker deaths reignite debate on 996 and the dark side of China tech\u2019s overwork culture"},"content":{"rendered":"The dark side of working for China\u2019s booming technology industry is under the spotlight again amid public criticism of social commerce giant Pinduoduo in the wake of two employee deaths, with many fearing the infamous 996 culture has become worse and not better due to pressure from the pandemic.Pinduoduo, a rapidly expanding online sales firm, first found itself at the centre of a storm following the death of a 22-year-old woman surnamed Zhang, who was working at one of its new business units\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3117911\/pinduoduo-worker-deaths-reignite-debate-996-and-dark-side-china-techs\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dark side of working for China\u2019s booming technology industry is under the spotlight again amid public criticism of social commerce giant Pinduoduo in the wake of two employee deaths, with many fearing the infamous 996 culture has become worse and n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10222,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221\/revisions\/10222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}