Startups Ai Area Area moves to the banner “996” prohibited in China

According to New report from Wirelessand The startups in the Gulf region are increasingly inclined to models similar to the culture of work in China 996, where employees are expected to work from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, six days a week, and a total of 72 hours per week.

Startups, especially in the area of artificial intelligence, require new beginnings to accept longer working hours. For example, Rilla Starting Ai tells potential employees In current job lists So that you do not care about serving unless they are enthusiastic about “Work about 70 hours per week in person with some of the most ambitious people in New York City.”

The company’s growth head, Will Gao, said, Wireless There was an increasingly sub-culture from the Gen-Z “who grew up listening to the stories of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, the owners of the project who devoted their lives to build the changing companies.” He said that all 80 workforce is approximately 80 people from Rilla on the 996 table.

It seems that the rise of a controversial work culture has been born from the current efficiency pressure in Silicon Valley. Tours of collective demobilization and the rise of artificial intelligence led to pressure and the heat attended the technology staff who managed to maintain their jobs.

For example, in February, Google The co -founder Sergey Brain told the employees working on Gemini that he recommended that he be in the office at least every day of the week and said that 60 hours is the “sweet spot” of productivity.

Other executive managers of technology, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, emphasized that the productivity between workers is the king, even if it means working hours or additional working days. In November 2022, tell Musk badly the remaining x, then twitterEmployees to adhere to a new culture and “very militants” or leave the company with end wages.

Part of the reason for the intensive work schedules is the desire to compete with China amid a global AI race. Especially after Deepseek has released the Chinese starting starting model on an equal footing with some of the best American offers, as he was wearing AI’s laboratories.

China was actually trying to start in a 996 culture at home. In 2021, the Supreme Court of China, the Supreme People’s Court, and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security announced that the culture of work “996” in China was illegal. At that time, this step was part of the broader campaign of the Chinese Communist Party to reduce inequality in Chinese society and reduce the strength of the country’s largest technology companies.

But this practice has already spared other countries. Earlier this summer, European technology sector She also found herself in a hot discussion about the culture of work.

It is partially exacerbated by a continuous debate about Europe’s competitiveness in technology and artificial intelligence space, some European VCS warned that more work and longer hours are needed to compete effectively.

” LinkedIn In June, Silicon Valley was “raising density”, and European founders needed a note.

“(Seven) days a week is the speed required to win at the present time. There is no room for slipping,” said Stebings in the post. “You do not compete with a random company in Germany, etc., but the best in the world.”

Some other founders have weighted, criticized the rise of the culture of work 996 and warned that it might quickly lead to a culture of fatigue. Among them was Evi Miller, the general partner in Balddron Capital.

Miller Ali LinkedIn said: “Fatigue (he) is one of the 3 best reasons that early projects fail. It is literally a bad cause of investment,” said LinkedIn Ali LinkedIn.