It's an intriguing sight - 996 hasn't disappeared, but the voices criticizing 996 are fading away. It has been a long time since I saw the hot search for the word 996. At this time last year, 996 was the target of saturation attacks. Did 996 change, or did people change? The answer is a bit mysterious. 01 996 first became a hot topic in the public opinion field in 2019. In early January 2019, Bai Ya, CEO of Youzan, a leading SaaS e-commerce special database company, announced at the annual meeting that it would implement the 996 work system. He said, "Looking back in a few years, this time is definitely a good thing." As a result, he was turned into a sieve, and the hat of "capitalist" could not be taken off.
At the end of March of that year, the well-known code hosting platform GitHub launched a project called 996.icu. Since then, the phrase "work 996, sick ICU" has become popular, which represents the protest of the programmer group. This turmoil brought 996-related topics into the center of the public opinion square, and 996 was deeply bound to the special database Chinese Internet industry. More than a month later, many Internet bigwigs spoke out about 996, and many central media followed up with comments, pushing the discussion about 996 to a new climax. After that, 996 became a hot word in the media exposure list, and the critique of 996 would appear intermittently.
Capitalists" are regarded as street lamp ornaments, which is also directly related to this. By 2021, the volume of criticism of 996 has reached its peak, and the sudden death of employees in large factories that occurs from time to time will serve as an introduction to "the whole network denounced". On August 26, 2021, the Ministry of Human Resources special database and Social Security and the Supreme People's Court jointly released a number of typical cases of overtime and overtime, making it clear that "996 and 007 are illegal rather than struggle." On September 9, "Guangming Daily" published ""996" is a detour in the history of employment in the Internet industry" written by me.