> We have employees who prefer to enjoy life, who put life first and work second — I can understand not wanting to work hard, everyone makes different choices . . . so I can only say that you are not our brother, you are a passer-by,” Liu told attendees, according to a recording posted on social media. “We should not be working together”.<p>And people wonder why birthrates are collapsing.
“That is what our competitors do, how can we survive if we don’t as well?”<p>Regulation is the answer to this race to the bottom. When competing companies can't agree to give employees a break, the government can make some rules.<p>Also applies to other things companies can't agree to do, like spend some extra money to process their factory waste instead of polluting a river.
>As executives across [the] tech industry face a new reality of low growth, rising competition and investor apathy, many are cutting staff and making tougher demands of those they keep.<p>Is this about China, or the U.S.?
> Engineers in China have never enjoyed the level of perks offered by peers in Silicon Valley, where employees have benefits such as onsite doctors and sushi bars<p>To be fair, most engineers in the US don't enjoy those perks either
> Chinese tech companies push staff to the limit<p>Just like US tech companies. The US conpanies in EU seem to have a strange interpretation of labour laws.