![]() "I'm a game lover and I like my job, but I think I'm underpaid." "Sometimes when projects come along, I work seven days a week, I sometimes even sleep at the office," the developer said. "But we don't know who we should resort to when it comes to all these holidays and payment issues, so we resort to the internet," the developer said. While working hard, they are calling for more holidays, and believe holidays are their rights. With improved living standards, more Chinese people have adopted a "work hard, play hard" lifestyle, compared with the older generations' "work to live" mind-set. The online complaints and discussions also come amid young people's changing attitudes toward life and work, and rising rights protection awareness. That's why many people complain," a software developer working in a gaming company based in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, told the Global Times on Wednesday. But the truth is, not every company is run that way. "If it's a 'work more, pay more' model, I'd be a lot more willing to follow the '996' schedule. The blacklist includes most of the big names in China's technology sector - Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, JD.com and ByteDance, which is known for its popular short-video platform Tik Tok. As of Monday, 84 Chinese companies were on the blacklist, which claims employees are forced to follow a "996" schedule, under which work begins at 9 am and finishes at 9 pm, six days a week. The blacklist is said to have been compiled by current and former employees of technology companies. Working overtime has been common for employees in China's internet sector for many years, but debate about the practice heated up recently after a blacklist of technology companies that push their staff to follow a "996" schedule went viral online. ![]() Many see overtime as normal in pursuit of success
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