Comment by mrb
4 days ago
"pushing 996"
What does this mean? You mean they have close to 1k employees? Odd typo or odd way to say it.
4 days ago
"pushing 996"
What does this mean? You mean they have close to 1k employees? Odd typo or odd way to say it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
996 is a work schedule that derives its name from its requirement that workers clock in from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, 6 days per week, resulting in employees working 12 hours per day and 72 hours per week.
I'm not in the startup scene or the US but I've come to understand this as 6 days a week of working 9am-9pm - typical hustle virtue-signalling nonsense and/or the latest move to exploit/shame/scare driven/desperate people to sacrifice their lives unsustainably for the wealth creation of others (and I take the comment you were replying to was criticising this as well).