China's Tech Work Culture Is So Intense People Sleep and Bathe In Their Offices (techinsider.io)

An anonymous reader writes: China's technology sector is booming at an intensely fast pace. Many startups are seeing their business grow faster than they can hire, placing a heavy burden on those already working within the industry. "The pace of Chinese internet company growth is extremely fast," Cui Meng, general manager and cofounder of data startup Goopal, told Reuters. "I've been to the US and the competitive environment there isn't as intense as in China." This has led many workers to put in overtime, sleeping at their desks, on cots, or even in provided bunk beds. Many employees are encouraged to live at the office during the workweek. Lunchtime naps are generally allowed, and those who end up staying past midnight usually pass out in the office.Reuters has amazing photographs of such offices and employees.

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When I think of China

[Anonymous Coward]

When I think of China the first thing that comes to mind is technical innovation.

Re: When I think of China

[bmo]

The British said this about the Americans at the start of the Industrial Revolution, when we stole their technology.

We Americans said the same about the Japanese and Koreans.

The British were wrong. We were wrong. Everyone who says that "they just steal our innovation and copy it without any creativity" is wrong. Completely, utterly, to their own detriment, WRONG.

It screams "whistling past the graveyard" /at best/ and probably veiled racism depending on who you hear this stuff from.

"China's economy will collapse"

Whose economies don't have cycles of boom and bust? Ours? HAVE YOU FUCKING LOOKED AROUND?!

Christ on a stick. You have no fucking clue. You are complacent and have not looked past the headlines at all.

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BMO