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Havoc in HR: How Chinese Workers Found a New Champion in ‘Wukong’

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The much-anticipated video game has birthed various memes on the tribulations of the Monkey King (and Chinese “corporate monkeys”)

Few white-collar workers can escape China’s extreme “996” work culture, but on August 20, a regular Tuesday, gamers seem to have taken one precious day of their limited annual leave to prepare for the release of Black Myth: Wukong—gaming platform Steam showed over 1.5 million players active at the same time just hours after the game’s release.

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