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by NoblePublius 2666 days ago
Standard working hours in China are 9-9 six days per week.
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And that country is known for terrible working conditions.

Let's very deliberately not do what China is doing.

They work that long to win. Do you want to win? Or do you want to lose? Business is fundamentally a competition.
Getting worked into the ground so some self-entitled person can "win" in "business" on the back of my labor and broken body and psyche, now that's a loss in my book.
Who's winning? The employee in an early grave, who sacrificed time with their family for a company, to whom they are replaceable? Or the company, if it's the company well them employee is still losing and ultimately that's the real result that matters.
The only thing the Chinese working class is winning at is subsidizing the west's lavish lifestyle with their cheap and exploitative labor.

Some winning that is.

If that's what winning looks like, don't sign me up.

yeah and most of that time consist of surfing on Taobao and checking WeChat, worked for years in China, productivity of white collars it's extremely behind their image in west, what foreigner for in one hour Chinese colleague will do whole day. same with time management, everything decided at 5 to noon and then rushing instead of property management and working at normal pace without overtime