Microsoft vs 996 and the Game Coder’s Grind

Lance Ng
5 min readNov 10, 2019

Tech employees all over the world are complaining of burnt out. Can Microsoft’s four days work week experiment change mindsets?

Source: DLPNG

I’ve always quipped, if you find yourself working long hours all the time, either you are being exploited, or you are unproductive.

China’s tech titans would probably not agree with me. Many developers by now would have heard of China’s

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