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{调取该文章的TAG关键词}|Three Sudden Deaths Rekindle Debate over Overwork Culture in China( 二 )


He had a stroke at home on February 4 due to long hours of work and was declared dead in the hospital on February 5, according to the blogger. The blogger has about 5 million followers.
The moderator, 24, was the only kid of his family. He died in Wuhan, Hubei province, which was far from his hometown.
He joined Bilibili’s Wuhan subsidiary in May 2020. He worked very hard and was kind to his colleagues. His role in the company required him to continue to work during the Spring Festival, according to the company.
The video streaming website admitted that after his passing, his family and coworkers were in enormous shock and sorrow and thus communications between them were not smooth. The website expressed their deep regret to the family of the moderator.
According to the statement, on February 7, Bilibili, whose headquarters is located in Shanghai, had formed a dedicated team for the incident, which arrived in Wuhan on February 8. The team, led by three Vice Presidents, comforted the moderator’s family in Wuhan and helped arrange the related matters.
"The passing of an excellent employee like 'Twilight Wooden Heart' is an enormous loss to the company. It also sounded a warning to us," the company said on its official Weibo account. "We should take more proactive measures to protect the health of our content moderators in order to prevent similar tragedies from occurring again."
Meanwhile, Bilibili announced it would immediately add 1,000 new moderators to the existing content moderation department. In addition to annual medical checkups, all employees of the content reviewing department will receive more medical checkups, starting in February. The 24/7 health consulting office will be set up to guarantee physical and mental health of the employees.    
However, the company insisted that the moderator did not work overtime and he worked 9:30 am to 6:30 pm in his last days and received three times as much as regular pay.
The website's statement immediately became one of the top trending topics on Weibo and the working conditions of young white collars were placed under scrunity. 
According to the disclosure made the company, 866 employees work in Wuhan, accounting for about 10% of its total employees. As of December 31, 2020, 2,413 employees, or 28% of the total employees, are responsible for monitoring content. 93.6% of the total employees were less than 27 years old.
Tencent's Game Developer Star Fell for Unknown ReasonOn December 14, 2021, China’s social media and gaming giant Tencent released a statement, saying Mao Xingyun, a game developer at Tianmei Fi Workshop passed away on the morning of December 11 by accident. He was 30 years old. Due to respect for his family and the deceased, the company declined to disclose any further information.  
“As an indispensible member of the team, Xingyun was always a very excellent employee with outstanding expertise. His work performance was superb in the past consecutive years. We are very sorry and sad for his passing,” Tencent said in the statement.
An IT industry insider said that they were all shocked by his passing and still could not believe it.
Mao’s high school classmate said: “he has always been busy with work. We had a dinner party at one time. But before the dinner was over, he left for the company to work overtime.”
A Long Way to GoIn the past few years, the public opinion towards the overwork culture has shifted significantly. In April 2019, Jack Ma, the founder of China's dominant e-commerce platform Alibaba, said working from 9 am to 9 pm for six days a week was “a blessing.” He had expected that his comments would resonate with a huge number of his followers, who called him “Daddy Ma" jokingly. However, his words were met with outrage and triggered a nation-wide debate about the brutal working culture of big tech companies. Since then, the overwork culture has been seen by an overwhelming majority of young employees as “exploitative.” But it is still a long way to go in terms of strict implementation of labor laws.

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