> We have employees who prefer to enjoy life, who put life first and work second — I can understand not wanting to work hard, everyone makes different choices . . . so I can only say that you are not our brother, you are a passer-by,” Liu told attendees, according to a recording posted on social media. “We should not be working together”.

And people wonder why birthrates are collapsing.

https://archive.is/9ZO1k

“That is what our competitors do, how can we survive if we don’t as well?”

Regulation is the answer to this race to the bottom. When competing companies can't agree to give employees a break, the government can make some rules.

Also applies to other things companies can't agree to do, like spend some extra money to process their factory waste instead of polluting a river.

>As executives across [the] tech industry face a new reality of low growth, rising competition and investor apathy, many are cutting staff and making tougher demands of those they keep.

Is this about China, or the U.S.?

> Engineers in China have never enjoyed the level of perks offered by peers in Silicon Valley, where employees have benefits such as onsite doctors and sushi bars

To be fair, most engineers in the US don't enjoy those perks either

> Chinese tech companies push staff to the limit

Just like US tech companies. The US conpanies in EU seem to have a strange interpretation of labour laws.

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