Most of the companies that use 996 are tech companies that don’t “require” it in the same way that American tech workers aren’t “required” to work 60 hour weeks, even though many (most?) of us do. If the guy next to you works crazy hours and you can’t keep up with their output, you’re effectively forced to do it to keep up with them, but that’s not as easy to regulate out of existence. They’re making progress on it, though.
Most of the companies that use 996 are tech companies that don’t “require” it in the same way that American tech workers aren’t “required” to work 60 hour weeks, even though many (most?) of us do. If the guy next to you works crazy hours and you can’t keep up with their output, you’re effectively forced to do it to keep up with them, but that’s not as easy to regulate out of existence. They’re making progress on it, though.
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