Originally posted on RadicalxChange by Suji Yan & Katt Gu, May 31, 2019 The Origins of 996.ICU 996, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week. ‘996’ became the unofficial working schedule in many Chinese tech companies, including tech giants like Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba (BAT) in recent years. Such inhuman work schedules has led to much suffering, with some tech sector employees ending up in…