Good for Chen and Ban! They deserves better than 996.

This will be interesting impacts on China if it becomes a larger trend, though no reason to think it will become a much larger trend.

Chen used to dread the grind of her nine-to-six job, which she said “felt like marching to my own death.” Now, she wakes at 10 a.m. every day, filling her days with cooking, chilling, and long walks on the beach.

“I never believed that work is the meaning of life,” Chen said. “My ideal state of life is not to work and stay at places that I like.”