mo4ch:>Jack Ma defends ‘truth over correctness’ as overtime work routine comment evokes online fury | Mo4ch News
The founder of one of the world’s biggest e-commerce firms, Jack Ma, has defied social media bashing, which followed the Chinese billionaire’s controversial comment on the industry’s severe overtime culture.The co-founder of Alibaba Group expanded on comments he made last week that were aimed at dismissing young employees, who expect a typical eight-hour office lifestyle. Ma identified the industry’s ‘996’ work schedule, which refers to a twelve-hour workday over six days a week, as a “huge blessing” for young workers, sparking international social media outrage.Also on rt.comAlibaba lashes out at US over ‘unfair’ treatment of Huawei as tech giant faces scrutiny“As I expected, my comments internally a few days ago about the 996 schedule caused a debate and non-stop criticism,” the billionaire executive said in a post on his Weibo account on Sunday.“I understand these people, and I could have said something that was ‘correct’, but we don’t lack people saying ‘correct’ things in the wor…