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A vocal group of Microsoft Corp employees is calling on the company to support a rare online protest from Chinese technology workers spawned on GitHub, the software code-sharing site Microsoft owns.
In March, Chinese computer programmers took to GitHub to complain about long work hours, a flash-point for the country’s tech giants and startups. The protests were posted on a “repository”, a collaborative online tool, called 996.ICU. That’s shorthand for working 9am to 9pm six days a week and ending up in the intensive care unit.
