盡管社交媒體上的反對聲浪日益高漲，但億萬富翁馬云還是鼓勵科技行業從業者“接受”極端加班文化。

這也是近日阿里巴巴集團聯合創始人馬云就該話題再度發聲，支持業內臭名昭著的每天工作12小時，每周6天，認為這應該是努力奮斗的年輕人的常態。上周日馬云發表了一篇長文，就此前關于“996”引發爭議的觀點做出進一步解釋，他曾經表示公司不缺8小時上班很舒服的人。

“前幾天我在公司內部關于‘996’的觀點，引起熱議，批評聲也是源源不斷，和我預期的一樣。”馬云寫道。“我很理解這些看法，其實我完全可以說一些‘正確的話’。但今天的社會不缺正確的話，我們缺的是實話、真話、讓人思考的話。”

之前馬云的言論引發了有關程序員和創業者“過勞死”的激烈討論，目前仍在持續。今年3月，中國一些程序員在線上代碼共享社區GitHub發起了名叫“996.ICU”的項目抗議過度加班問題，很快該項目就變成了GitHub網站的熱門。“996”一詞是指早上9點上班，晚上9點下班，每周工作6天。

除了馬云以外，中國最知名的幾位科技行業“大佬”也加入了論戰。阿里巴巴的勁敵京東首席執行官劉強東最近在微信朋友圈表示，雖然不會強迫員工“996”，但不能拼搏的人當不了他的“兄弟”。上周日馬云也表示，強迫員工加班是“不人道的”，但有些人因為熱愛奮斗而主動加班。

“那些能堅持996的人一定是找到了自己的熱情之處，找到了金錢以外的快樂之處。”馬云寫道。（財富中文網）

譯者：Pessy

審校：夏林

Billionaire Jack Ma again encouraged tech workers to embrace the industry’s extreme-overtime culture, defying a growing social media backlash.

The Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder once more endorsed the sector’s infamous 12-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week routine as de rigueur for passionate young workers. In a lengthy last Sunday blog post, China’s richest man expanded on comments from last week, in which he dismissed people who expect a typical eight-hour office lifestyle.

“As I expected, my comments internally a few days ago about the 996 schedule caused a debate and non-stop criticism,” Ma wrote. “I understand these people, and I could have said something that was ‘correct.’ But we don’t lack people saying ‘correct’ things in the world today, what we lack is truthful words that make people think.”

Ma’s earlier comments stoked a fierce ongoing debate over tales of programmers and founders dying from unrelenting stress. Chinese tech workers protested labor conditions on the online code-sharing community GitHub in March under the banner 996.ICU, which quickly became the site’s most popular topic. The term 996 refers to a 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six-day a week work schedule.

Beyond Ma, several of China’s most prominent industry figures have also weighed in on the controversy. Richard Liu, chief executive of Alibaba arch-foe JD.com Inc., said in a recent post on his WeChat moments that, while he would never force staff to work a 996 schedule, people who slacked off were not considered his “brothers.” On last Sunday, Ma said forcing employees to work gruelling hours was “inhumane” — but that some wanted to do so.

“Those who can stick to a 996 schedule are those who have found their passion beyond monetary gains,” Ma wrote.