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How China’s Tech Workers Are Coping With the Coronavirus Outbreak
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2:26Now Playing"I’m losing a little bit of boundary between my personal life and working,” says Sunny Chen, a 26-year-old product manager in Beijing, China.
She is one of hundreds of thousands of tech workers in China who have been forced to work from home during the new coronavirus outbreak.
Instead of bringing employees greater freedom, telecommuting means professional life is encroaching even more on private life, as bosses subject workers to hourslong conference calls, regular check-ins to ensure they’re not slacking off, and expectations that they’ll be available 24/7.
The worsening morale among the country’s tech foot soldiers, some in isolation weeks before the virus spread beyond China’s borders, might be a lesson for the world’s corporations contemplating similar contingency plans on how not to do work-from-home.
“This is one wake up call for all of us, right? To gather everyone, to really sit front and think of how do we build a very highly resilient organization by allowing people to work from anywhere, wherever and whatever the time may be,” says Alvin Foo, a Shanghai-based managing director.
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