Originated in China, the “996” schedule of working 9am-9pm, 6 days a week comes to Silicon Valley
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the tremors rippling across the startup hiring landscape.
Spurred on by AI, the marketplace is reassessing what great talent is, as entry-level hiring precipitously declines across the ecosystem. And there’s one subplot that kept coming up as I was reporting a piece I wrote about the new rules of startup hiring, but that I wasn’t able to include in the original story—about 996.
996, for the uninitiated, is a work schedule that references working 9 AM to 9 PM...
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