ICU for employees working illegal 996

A PROGRAMMER shared a self-made website called"996.ICU" on github.com, a well-known code-sharing platform, to protest against the long working hours required by many internet companies. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

"996.ICU" refers to employees who have to work from 9 am to 9 pm six days a week, whose health suffers as a result, and who end up in an intensive care unit.

Although such a work schedule has been widely denounced, several internet company bosses have openly said they advocate 996, while some of them have reportedly been implementing the schedule for a long time. On the 996.ICU website, programmers working for more than 40 well-known domestic internet companies shared evidence showing their companies asked them to work longer than the mandated hours.