Voices of support have also come from staff and former employees at Facebook, Google and TripAdvisor.
Some Microsoft employees have used their company's own platform to support Chinese tech workers who are expected to carry out 12-hour workdays with just one day off a week.
The project is a collection, or repository, of alleged evidence of long hours and wrongful working conditions. On Monday, software engineers from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others signed a letter of support for Chinese workers. The online letter was added to the 996.icu project on the web-based code-sharing service, GitHub.
"Since going viral, Chinese domestic browsers, such as those by Tencent and Alibaba, have restricted access to the 996.icu repository on their web browsers, warning users that the repository contains illegal or malicious content." Spokespersons for Tencent and Alibaba were not immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC.
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