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Fortune
Ryan Hogg

Europe's biggest VCs are going to war over adopting China's 996 ‘always on’ culture

(Credit: Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images)

A war is brewing in Europe’s startup community over three numbers that would have mass implications for tech workers, and perhaps beyond: 996.

Stoked by an ongoing debate about Europe’s competitiveness with other territories, leaders of some of the region’s biggest VCs have waded into a battle startups should be working in order to compete with U.S. and Chinese tech firms. 

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