FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2018, file photo, workers use their laptops near a display showing sales data at the command center at the headquarters of an e-commerce retailer in Beijing. Remarks by the head of Chinese online business giant Alibaba that young people should work 12-hour days, six days a week if they want financial success have prompted a public debate over work-life balance in the country. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
SHANGHAI: Shanghai software engineer Wu Linfeng watched the silent comedy Modern Times recently and soon found himself crying – watching Charlie Chaplin’s classic stressed-out assembly-line worker was like watching himself.
Overworked, underpaid, and feeling like a hamster on a wheel, he is among China’s masses of mostly male tech-industry staff whose long hours have sparked a national debate about work-life balance.
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