Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Alibaba, is criticized for endorsing 12-hour days, 6 days a week. But he may be right about one thing
Share to linkedincontroversial practice known as"996." This number refers to Ma’s belief that everyone in his company should happily work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. From his earliest days in the late '90s,“hard-working spirit of Silicon Valley” to compete against them. “If we go to work at 8 a.m. and go home at 5 p.m., this is not a high-tech company.”said.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proclaim their demands. They both start out with huge asks. Trump wants a gazillion dollars for “the wall” and Ocasio-Cortez calls for trillions to pay for her Green New Deal. Both throw out these big demands with the understanding that it will provoke a conversation and there will be negotiating down to a middle ground. Ma similarly intends to push people to give it their all and contemplate everything that they can achieve by putting in the extra time and efforts.
The media didn’t really latch on to this prudent sentiment, but Ma also expressed, “Real 996 should be spending time learning, thinking and for self-improvement."
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