Eric Schmidt warns U.S. tech workers must sacrifice work-life balance to compete with China's 12-hour workdays
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez
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Summary
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns that U.S. tech workers' preference for remote work and work-life balance puts them at a competitive disadvantage against China's grueling "996" work culture (12-hour days, 6 days a week). Schmidt argues that winning in tech requires tradeoffs and sacrifices, and that the U.S. is falling behind China in AI and other critical technologies partly due to cultural differences in work ethic and intensity.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledIf you're going to be in tech and you're going to win, you're going to have to make some tradeoffs. Remember, we're up against t
The former CEO of Google is sounding the alarm about the tech sector's ability to compete with China, and he warns that working from home isn't helping.
Schmidt, who served as CEO from 2001 to 2011, has some thoughts on the China-style '996' work ethic.
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