{"id":9304,"date":"2021-01-17T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3117757\/pinduoduo-death-and-chinas-996-overwork-culture-show-how-vulnerable"},"modified":"2021-01-17T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T00:30:10","slug":"pinduoduo-death-and-chinas-996-overwork-culture-show-how-vulnerable-tech-workers-have-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/pinduoduo-death-and-chinas-996-overwork-culture-show-how-vulnerable-tech-workers-have-become\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinduoduo death and China\u2019s \u2018996\u2019 overwork culture show how vulnerable tech workers have become"},"content":{"rendered":"The Chinese pride themselves on being hardworking, but the \u201c996\u201d culture of working from 9am to 9pm, six days a week, is simply inhuman. Sadly, such a practice is all too common in many Chinese technology companies.\r\rThe latest victim of this regime is a 22-year-old woman surnamed Zhang, who worked at the Xinjiang branch of Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo. At around 1.30am on \ufeffDecember 29, she collapsed on a frozen street while walking home from the office with her colleagues. She died in\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3117757\/pinduoduo-death-and-chinas-996-overwork-culture-show-how-vulnerable\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese pride themselves on being hardworking, but the \u201c996\u201d culture of working from 9am to 9pm, six days a week, is simply inhuman. Sadly, such a practice is all too common in many Chinese technology companies.<\/p>\n<p>The latest victim of this regime is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":938,"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\/9304"}],"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\/938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9305,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions\/9305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}