The coronavirus pandemic has meant even longer days for China's IT workers. And the extra overtime is unpaid.
These workers are having to deal with life and work integrated as one. Their homes have become their offices, and going out is difficult because of strict controls on people's movement to contain the coronavirus.
"At 10 a.m. I'm usually woken up by a teleconference call where I report my work progress," Li said."I will have a cup of coffee during the conference, and it's almost lunchtime when the conference is over."Zhu Lichao, 26, a programmer for ByteDance, said it's hard to know exactly when he can get off work.Li, the game developer, faces the same challenge."Some colleagues will still call me to confirm working requests at 11 p.m.," he said.
On Feb. 3, the first workday after the Chinese New Year holiday, nearly 200 million employees across China were working on DingTalk, a communication platform developed by Alibaba, China's biggest e-commerce company.IT was in the five busiest sectors in the first week after the holiday, according to statistics from Enterprise WeChat, a remote work platform developed by another Chinese tech giant, Tencent.
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