Billionaire Jack Ma again encouraged tech workers to embrace the industry\u2019s extreme-overtime culture, defying a growing social media backlash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\n Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder once more endorsed the sector\u2019s \ninfamous 12-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week routine as de rigueur for \npassionate young workers. In a lengthy Sunday blog post, China\u2019s richest\n man expanded on comments from last week, in which he dismissed people \nwho expect a typical eight-hour office lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI understand \nthese people, and I could have said something that was \u2018correct.\u2019 But we\n don\u2019t lack people saying \u2018correct\u2019 things in the world today, what we \nlack is truthful words that make people think.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ma\u2019s earlier \ncomments stoked a fierce ongoing debate over tales of programmers and \nfounders dying from unrelenting stress. Chinese tech workers protested \nlabor conditions on the online code-sharing community GitHub in March \nunder the banner 996.ICU, which quickly became the site\u2019s most popular \ntopic.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Billionaire Jack Ma again encouraged tech workers to embrace the industry\u2019s extreme-overtime culture, defying a growing social media backlash. The Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder once more endorsed the sector\u2019s infamous 12-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week routine as de rigueur for passionate young workers. In a lengthy Sunday blog post, China\u2019s richest man expanded on comments from last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59242,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59239\/revisions\/59242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}