Chinese tech workers post working hours online in criticism of '996' culture

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Organised by four anonymous creators who described themselves as recent graduates, the "Worker Lives Matter" campaign calls on employees at tech firms to enter their company name, position, and working hours in a spreadsheet posted on GitHub, an open-source hosting website.

A majority of the entries on the spreadsheet show that while a five-day week is the norm, many employees work 10 to 12 hours a day.

"We hope to make a contribution to the boycott of '996' and the popularisation of '955'" said one of the creators on China's question-and-answer site Zhihu in a post viewed six million times. "955" means 9am to 5pm, five days a week.

China's top court in August described "996" as illegal.