Young Chinese are sick of working long hours
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#2Welcome to the club! There's 400 million Americans who feel the exact same way!
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#3Who's not tired of working overtime?
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#4Welcome to the club! There's 400 million Americans who feel the exact same way!
Japanese too. Keep in mind that this article is written from a British/European standpoint, where working overtime is an exception, not the norm.
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#5Millennials - the beginning of the end for China's authoritarian government? :D
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#6Welcome to the club! There's 400 million Americans who feel the exact same way!
Well that's weird since there's only 325 million of us, and the percentage which has mandatory overtime is pretty low. Even lower if you specify mandatory unpaid overtime.
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#7It's ineffective. Lots of asian nations that work overtime are doing it pointlessly because they are already exhausted and do not really contribute that much.
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#8> Li said that initially he felt he couldn’t be too be picky: he had majored in English, not in one of the sought-after science or technology fields, and he had attended a low-ranked university. Many of his friends are unemployed.
To me, this was the most interesting part of the article. It all sounds so familiar.
Re: Young Chinese are sick of working long hours
#9Welcome to the club! There's 400 million Americans who feel the exact same way!
Japanese too. Keep in mind that this article is written from a British/European standpoint, where working overtime is an exception, not the norm.
Japanese may work overtime but they are hardly "busy", at least in major corporations which constitute a large bulk of the salary men workforce. Lots of useless meetings where people sit around saying and doing nothing. They just stay late.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Japanese too. Keep in mind that this article is written from a British/European standpoint, where working overtime is an exception, not the norm.
Japanese may work overtime but they are hardly "busy", at least in major corporations which constitute a large bulk of the salary men workforce. Lots of useless meetings where people sit around saying and doing nothing. They just stay late.
Same in Korea and Singapore and I doubt it's any different in China. You work for the sake of working not because you have something that urgently needs to be taken care of.