[cercatrova]

9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week. This is most prevalent in China though, with their somewhat lax labor laws, I have never seen this in the western world (codified into a number like 996 I mean, I assume investment banking and the like pull >100 hours a week).

[Aperocky]

Having interned a long time ago in such a company:

No check in time - just arrive anytime before 10.

Lunch break is easily 2 hours, naps included.

Dinner break is another 1.5 hours, people would walk laps and sometimes play basketball.

Everyone hang around until 9PM because then there's free food and free rides home (also traffic is much better). only applies for weekdays, some people check in on Saturdays for a few hours.

Of course this is not busy time in general - when people do the real 996 for a bit - but that can't last, and everyone knows it.

I've heard the situation has started to change as well - hopefully it gets fully stamped out.

[puchatek]

This has anecdotally been described as US work ethic to me. Ostensibly long hours and few vacation days but if you need to run an important errand on company time nobody will bat an eye.

[stef25]

Add good quality child care / babysitting and I'll sign right now.

[unmole]

> This is most prevalent in China though, with their somewhat lax labor laws

Like a lot of things in China, the problem isn't with the laws but the selective enforcement of it. The labour law says:

> 36 The State shall practise a working hour system wherein labourers shall work for no more than eight hours a day and no more than 44 hours a week on an average.

There's also a widespread practice of making employees who have been with the company for more than 8 years or so quit and rejoin after a month to bypass some other labour law provision I don't fully understand.

[madengr]

The Japanese actually have a word for death by over-work:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi

[ano88888]

And they call themselves "communists" with their somewhat capitalist lax labor laws. What an irony.

[moehm]

Simpsons Already Did It™

https://youtu.be/zzt0xBXTNhI?t=200

[VelkaMorava]

Well, the US and Europe call themselves capitalist, yet there are huge barriers to enter some of the fields (e.g. in the Czech Republic the number of mobile operators is defined by law, essentially a state-imposed oligopol). Useless regulations (primarily EU), trade embargos, huge subsidies to companies which don't need them, absurd patents (my favourite one being Apple patenting the shape of a rectangle with rounded corners)...

So now what?

[SoylentYellow]

They are still adhering to Marxism. Capitalism is one step on the path. Next is socialism, then communism.