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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