Microsoft and GitHub Workers Support 996.ICU, Tech workers in China started a GitHub repository titled 996.ICU, a reference to the grueling and illegal working hours of many tech companies in China – from 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week. Microsoft and GitHub Workers Support 996.ICU
“By following the ‘996’ work schedule, you are risking yourself getting into the ICU (Intensive Care Unit),” says the 996.ICU GitHub project description. The project calls for Chinese tech companies to obey the labor laws in China and the international labor convention. Microsoft and GitHub Workers Support 996.ICU
Microsoft and GitHub Workers Support 996.ICU
This initiative has garnered massive support within China. GitHub users have been starring the repository as a way of showing their support. In the span of a few weeks, the project has been starred over 200,000 times, making it one of the fastest-growing GitHub repositories in the service’s history. Microsoft and GitHub Workers Support 996.ICU
The code-sharing platform GitHub, owned by Microsoft, is a place for developers to save, share, and collaborate on software projects. Most important for the 996.ICU movement is that GitHub is accessible in China. Microsoft and GitHub Workers Support 996.ICU
It is the dominant platform for developers to collaborate and is a crucial part of Chinese tech companies’ daily operations. 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. We must entertain the possibility that Microsoft and GitHub will be pressured to remove the repository as well. Microsoft and GitHub Workers Support 996.ICU
In response to these events, we, the workers of Microsoft and GitHub, support the 996.ICU movement and stand in solidarity with tech workers in China. We know this is a problem that crosses national borders. These same issues permeate across full-time and contingent jobs at Microsoft and the industry as a whole. Microsoft and GitHub Workers Support 996.ICU
Another reason we must take a stand in solidarity with Chinese workers is that history tells us that multinational companies will pit workers against each other in a race to the bottom as they outsource jobs and take advantage of weak labor standards in the pursuit of profit. We have to come together across national boundaries to ensure just working conditions for everyone around the globe. Microsoft and GitHub Workers Support 996.ICU
Microsoft and GitHub to keep the 996.ICU
We encourage Microsoft and GitHub to keep the 996.ICU GitHub repository was uncensored and available to everyone.
To other tech workers and industry supporters, we urge you to join us in our support of the 996.ICU movement.
To add your name to the list of supporters, make a pull request with your name and affiliation, as you would like it to appear on the list of signatories. You can also email msworkers4good@protonmail.com with this information and we can add it for you. Read more about adding yourself as a supporter here. Microsoft and GitHub Workers Support 996.ICU
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Microsoft and GitHub Workers Support 996.ICU
- Jason Prado, Ex-Microsoft Software Engineer 2008-2009
- Zora Tung, Software Engineer, Google
- Liz O’Sullivan, former head of annotations at Clarifai
- Jing Jing Cao, UX Designer, Anki
- Ali Atasever, CTO, Vivoo
- Amr Gaber, Software Engineer, Google
- Irene Knapp, Senior Software Engineer, Google
- Harshita Gupta, Student, Harvard University and former Software Engineering Intern (x2), Microsoft
- Alex Goldschmidt, Software Engineer, Microsoft
- JS Tan, Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Mark Dudley, Software Engineer, Google
- Rachel Miller, Writer
- Meredith Whittaker, AI Now Institute Co-founder, NYU Distinguished Research Scientist, Google Open Research Founder
- Hal Daumé III, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
- Casey Hong, Microsoft
- Ben Tarnoff, Logic Editor
- François Conil, Support, GitHub
- Esteban Roncancio, Trip Advisor
- Mark Seaborn, Software Engineer Google
- Josh McDuffie, Software Engineer, Constant Contact
- Ashly Hamilton, Program Manager, Microsoft
- Emily Cunningham, UX Designer at Amazon
- Andrew Schwartzmeyer, Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Sergey Alekhnovich, Software Engineer, iFood Decision Sciences
- Topher Weiss, Software Developer, Rational Interaction @ Microsoft
- Alexander Mancevice, Software Developer, CargoMetrics
- Cathy Lee, Brand designer, Oscar Health
- Yann Achard, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Camille Malonzo, Software Engineer Microsoft
- Kelly Wagman, Microsoft Research Assistant
- Mary L. Gray Senior Researcher Microsoft Research New England (Associate Professor School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Indiana University, Bloomington | Fellow Harvard University Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society)
- Francis Tseng, Public Science
- Esteban Roncancio, Software Engineer, TripAdvisor
- Naomi Harrington, Program Manager, Microsoft
- Mikayla Hutchinson, Software Engineer, Microsoft
- David Meyerson, Software Engineer II, Microsoft
- Bryan Hughes, Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
- Christopher Senderling, Microsoft
- Gregory Ellison, Data Scientist, Microsoft
- Stephanie Parker, Policy Specialist, YouTube
- Adina Shanholtz, Microsoft
- Marie Collins, Business Analyst, Google
- Kristen Sheets, Brandeis University Computer Science
- Erik Knechtel, Microsoft Contractor
- Daniel Greene, Assistant Professor of Information Studies, University of Maryland
- Amber Erickson, Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Julie Mayer, Senior Privacy Manager, Microsoft
- Minsoo Thigpen, Microsoft Program Manager
- Lowell Bander, Software Engineer, Facebook
- Wendy Liu, Tech Writer
- Nisha Pillai, Software Engineer
- DeepGrace, Senior C++ Expert
- Liu Jun, Software Engineer, Guangbao-uni
- Xeodou Li, Software Engineer, Udacity
- Sangyu Li, Former MSDN Editor,Editor at Hubei Commitee of CCYL,Staff of Wuhan Railway Bureau
- Ranjan Pradeep, Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Lion Huang, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Yinghao Liu, Senior Software Engineer, ThoughtWorks
- Dong Jin Zhao, Software Engineer
- Lin Zhang, Software Engineer II, Microsoft
- Wayne Wang, Senior Premier Field Eigineer, Microsoft
- Liang Ding, Full-Time Open-Sourcerer, B3log
- Benson Laur, Software Engineer, Guangzhou Wangshi Software Technology Co. Ltd.
- Nekocode(Fan Yueng), Software Engineer, Freelancer
- Shuirong Lin, Front-end Developer, Freelancer, Student
- JackEggie(Jack Tang), Software Engineer, Infor
- ZiHang Gao, Software Engineer, IReader
- Phodal(Fengda Huang), Senior Software Engineer, ThoughtWorks
- Zhida Liu, Software Engineer, Enjoylife
- Hancel Lin, Software Engineer, GIGABYTE.
- Zhongyu Hwang, Android Software Engineer, Chongqing Genesis Network Technology Co.,Ltd
- Knove, Software Engineer, Xiaomi
- Lip Young(杨 征), Fontend Software Coder, Freelancer
- Txdy, Software Engineer, Guangzhou Wangshi Software Technology Co. Ltd.
- Yuchong Pan, Software Engineering Intern (x2), Microsoft, & Student, University of British Columbia
- Margox(Wang Gang), Software Engineer
- Yibo Wei, Mobile Developer, SAP
- Cherrie Yu Cheng, Product Manager
- Zion Chen, Software Engineer, SAP
- ZedeX Zhao, Director of Product, PingAn Group
- Long Minghui, Golang Senior Programmer
- Lantao Liu (Lax), Programmer, Full-Time Freelancer
- Ashe Connor, Senior Software Engineer, GitHub
- Kathy Wu, Product Designer, MIT Media Lab
- Chelsea Wang, Product Designer, Facebook
- Yinghao Liu，Senior Soft Engineer，ThoughWorks
- ShanWu, Frontend Engineer, ThoughtWorks
- Hewie Mei, Software Engineer, Liepin
- Kanzakiken,Software Engineer
- Aleksandra Culver, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Google
- Yan Cui, Solution Architect, Microsoft
- Xiangyu (Shawn) Xiao, Tech Support Engineer, Microsoft
- Noah Berman, Backend Engineer, WeTransfer
- Han Yin, Front-end Developer
- Yuns Sun, Fontend Software Coder, Freelancer
- Li Xiaoyang, Software Engineer, Didi Chuxing
- Xudong Cai, Software Engineer, VeryStar
- Xinchen Pan (Nicky), Bioinformatics Engineer, Shanghai We-health
- Yamcer(Fan Yang), Software Engineer, Freelancer
- Wang Qun Feng, Senior Software Engineer, XTDE
- Norman Sun, Mobile Developer, Freelancer
- Martin Yin, Software Engineer
- Hao Xu, Azure Developer PMM, Microsoft
- Shan Zhou, Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Luxroid(MingWang Hao), Software Engineer, Freelancer
- Ke Shen, Software Engineer, Google
- Zhonghua Qiang, Software Engineer, Sofu
- Bam Wang (Wang Zhu), Development Manager, VELTRA Inc.
- ChiaKii Ryuu, Software Engineer, Group Of Otaku (Shenzhen) Inc.
- Vincent Lee, Software Engineer, Hikvision
- Mike He, Undergraduate Researcher, University of Washington
- Martin Larralde, Bioinformatician, ENS Paris-Saclay
- Fang Sixie, Software Engineer, CCI
- Zongbao Feng, Engineer, Baidu
- Yihong Zhang, Student, University of Washington
- Leroy Wang, Student, University of Washington
- Wang Fei, Software Developer and Tech writer
- Leoython Chou, Software Engineer, CloudMall
- Yu Fei(余斐), Software Engineer
- Adam Yi, Software Engineer
- Shaohua Huang, Software Engineer,Alibaba
- Shengtao Li, Software Engineer, 66ifuel
- Yu Guanhua, Software Developer
- Yang Mao, Student, University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer
- Hao Tao, Web Developer, Bingo Information Co., Ltd.
- Jet Wong, Software Engineer, owasp
- Roth Peng (Yu-Jhau, Peng), Frontend Developer, Trend Micro
- Danyow Ed(朱俊鸿), iOS/Unity Engineer, Thumbparty.
- Ruibo Li, Software Developer, 51talk
- Wuhao Chen, Student, University College London
- Paul Leung, Network security Engineer, Labrusca Studio
- Harry Yang, Microsoft
- Hang Yang, eCreditpal
- Trista, Chenzhen Chaoyue Technology Development Co.,Ltd.
- Kuilin Xiang, Software Engineer, Juejin
- Deng Mao, Software Engineer, BONC
- Qing Mu, Software Tester, NIO
- Yu Li, Axinfu.Inc
- Zhenwei Chen, Software Engineer
Microsoft and GitHub Workers Support 996.ICU
Microsoft and GitHub Workers Support 996.ICU