{"id":145164,"date":"2025-04-09T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=145164"},"modified":"2025-04-09T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:33:00","slug":"lavrov-to-discuss-south-caucasus-situation-in-ankara-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/145164\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Chinese companies reduce working hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A handful of major Chinese companies have new badges of honour this year: mandatory clock-off times for staff and bans on after-hours meetings, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Staff at home appliance maker Midea once toiled till late in the evening, but now they’re told to leave by 6:20 p.m.<\/p>\n

In China, this counts as radical corporate messaging, a sharp contrast to “996” or the practice of working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week․<\/p>\n

Other companies have also made changes, even if not quite as dramatic. At fellow appliance maker Haier employees have celebrated on social media the introduction of a five-day work week. Workers at DJI, the world’s largest drone manufacturer, have posted about their joy at a new policy declaring offices must be vacated by 9 p.m.<\/p>\n

“No more worrying about missing the last metro, no more worrying about waking up the wife when I get home,” wrote one DJI worker who said he often used to work past midnight.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A handful of major Chinese companies have new badges of honour this year: mandatory clock-off times for staff and bans on after-hours meetings, Reuters writes. Staff at home appliance maker Midea once toiled till late in the evening, but now they’re told to leave by 6:20 p.m. In China, this counts as radical corporate messaging, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":145141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}