Which Chinese Internet Giants Work the Hardest? 2023 Work‑Hour Rankings Revealed

Internet Work‑Hour Metric

The metric measures the average weekly working hours reported by employees of Internet companies. The statutory baseline is 40 h per week; “size‑week” (alternating long‑short weeks) is normalized to 60 h, and the “996” schedule (9 am–9 pm, 6 days) to 65 h. Companies are ranked by the mean of the “work‑hour” field collected in the latest salary‑benchmarking data.

Data source and update

Data are taken from the salary‑benchmarking platform https://duibiao.info/, which added a “work‑hour” field to its salary forms around a year ago. The ranking was refreshed on 2023‑05‑14 using the most recent year of submitted data.

Methodology

Extract the “work‑hour” value (average weekly hours) for each company from the salary dataset.

Convert any reported “size‑week” or “996” schedules to the standard weekly‑hour equivalents (60 h or 65 h respectively).

Compute the arithmetic mean of the weekly hours for each company.

Sort companies in descending order of the mean value.

Top results (2023)

Pinduoduo – 62.4 h per week

Xiaohongshu – 57.2 h per week

Huawei – value not disclosed in the text

ByteDance – value not disclosed in the text

Kuaishou – value not disclosed in the text

Note: The figures are for reference only; companies continuously adjust work‑hour policies.

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