Tag: working hours

Small Business Owners Working Eight-Day Week Equivalent Due to Staff Shortages: CFIB

A new study by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says the average small business owner is working the equivalent of an eight-day workweek due to staffing challenges, especially in Western Canada. The report, based on a survey of CFIB members last September, found 59 per cent of Canada’s small and medium-sized businesses were affected…


Chinese Tech Workers Disclose Working Hours in Criticism of ‘996’

SHANGHAI—A campaign calling on workers at Chinese tech companies and other high-profile firms to log their working hours on a public internet page has gone viral, in the latest backlash against a culture of overtime. Organized by four anonymous creators who described themselves as recent graduates, the “Worker Lives Matter” campaign calls on employees at…