'996' isn't isolated to China. I first experienced this in the late 90's when startup dotcoms were battling things out with each other. In most cases, we first

'996' isn't isolated to China. I first experienced this in the late 90's when startup dotcoms were battling things out with each other. In most cases, we first pushed ourselves to those levels of enterprise because we wanted to release new functionality, ahead of the competition. After we started burning out, that's when management started herding us in this direction because they don't get that work is not done when you're asked to join pointless meetings.