BEIJING: China’s official Xinhua News Agency is calling for shorter work hours in the country’s tech sector following the sudden death last week of a young employee at a leading e-commerce platform.
Last month’s tragedy refocused attention on “the pain of an abnormal culture of overtime”, Xinhua said in a brief editorial posted Tuesday on its Twitter-like Weibo account.
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