Those who do not comply are fired: Meituan employees in Dongguan in southern China at the start of a long shift.
China's exploitative work culture is claiming more and more victims. Especially in large tech companies, employees quickly reach the brink of collapse. Unpaid overtime work is commonplace. Those who don't comply are replaced. A former product manager at delivery giant Meituan tells China.Table about the pressure China's employees have to endure.
At the end of January, Zhang Yifei's post went viral in China. In it, the 25-year-old Chinese publicly condemned the working conditions at his employer Tencent. "Have you ever considered that it's a matter of life and death for your employees when you set up such work schedules?" he ranted in an internal company chat group with 600 members.
