A group of Microsoft and GitHub employees have come out in support of Chinese tech workers protesting the infamous '996' work hours

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Microsoft and GitHub employees wrote a letter to stand up against the censorship of 996.ICU, which is about illegal tech working conditions in China.

employees who wrote the petition want to make sure that the project to keep the project remains uncensored and available to all, especially in China.An example of evidence documented in 996.ICU An example of evidence documented in 996.ICU Developers outside China have supported this project as well. In less than a month, this project has garnered over 2,500 contributions from 533 developers.

"I used to work on such schedule for 1 to 2 years which made serious health problems to me and stopping to pay attention to other daily living matters like family, body health and even improving programming skills," Parsa told Business Insider."Forcing or even allowing developers to work on such schedule may help short-term success but it finally takes creativity, innovation, and motivation from them."He led open source projects in Microsoft's early days of exploring it.

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