Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by lupire on Friday November 04, 2022 @10:31AM (#33467326)

996 (72hr weeks) apparently works in China, so why wouldn't it be made to work here, especially if all the rich companies use the economic headwinds to collude and reduce compensation/QoL/perks? Also a massive fraction of young US techies are Chinese immigrants -- are they as vulnerable to 996 in US or are they a select group who escaped it?

And can Musk and others staff up in China (if US and Chinese politics/government allows it)?

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by mikkergp on Friday November 04, 2022 @10:48AM (#33467636)

Apparently it's illegal and ByteDance (TikTok's parent company) stopped doing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system#ByteDa...

I think you'd have to provide a lot more research to "996 (72hr weeks) apparently works in China". What type of companies, what type of jobs, ubiquity etc.

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by throw8383833jj on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:12PM (#33471361)

China has a vast vast oversupply of software engineers.

In order to make 996 work in the US, there would need to be a pretty big oversupply of talent (and a lower standard of living) to make people desperate enough to give up their entire lives to their work. Unfortunately, I think we may be getting close to that about now or at least heading down that path.

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by jupp0r on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:42PM (#33475698)

What makes you think that there is an oversupply of (good) Software Engineers? All I see every day is that it's still pretty difficult to hire good people.

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