996, GitHub, and China’s digital workers rights awakening

The phrase 996 refers to 9am – 9pm, 6 days per week, and is an unspoken rule in a lot of Chinese tech companies. The 996 Github page maintains a blacklist of tech companies that use 996 working hours, and a whitelist of companies that have reasonable working hours, and encourages tech workers to quit their jobs if their employers insist on the abusive 996 work schedule. At the time of writing, the 996 website isn’t blocked in China, but greedy tech companies have decided to block it themselves.

Source: chanind.github.io