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I'm Fei Fei, together with Steve Heatherly and New Honglin.
Coming up, in 2025, Chinese employees on average worked 49 hours a week.
We have a law, we have awareness existing.
The white seems nothing really is changing.
And today we ask, who actually benefits from long working hours and what would it take to stop it?
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It's one of those rare issues where there's almost no disagreement.
Ask a CEO, a factory worker, or a policymaker.
They'll probably all say the same thing.
Excessive overtime at work is a problem.
It's bad for health, it's bad for productivity, and also bad for families.
Then why does it feel impossible to stop?
We have our labor law.