Sudden deaths of employees occur frequently in major Internet companies.

Sudden deaths of employees occur frequently in major Internet companies. News of sudden death of employees has been reported from another major Internet company. And this time, it is ByteDance, which was once ridiculed by netizens, "Bytes and hearts can only have one beat." Sudden deaths of employees occur frequently at major Internet companies. Sudden deaths of employees occur frequently in major Internet companies 1

Although major Internet companies have publicly stated that they will cancel 996, reduce overtime, and take forced vacations, news of sudden deaths of Internet employees continues to spread.

On February 23, ByteDance’s intranet issued a response to the news that “a 28-year-old Byte employee died suddenly”, saying that the student behaved abnormally while exercising in the gym on the 21st, and the coach called 120. Emergency personnel arrived at the scene for treatment and sent him to an ambulance. As of 0:30 on February 23, the student was in critical condition and was still being rescued in the hospital. As of now, ByteDance has not updated the latest progress.

After 41 hours of resuscitation, a 28-year-old employee of ByteDance, "Classmate Wu," unfortunately passed away at 13:43 on February 23.

Involvement of large factories, overtime work, high mortgage loans, and child care. Every key word that crushes contemporary young people has been superimposed on this "Classmate Wu." Therefore, the incident instantly aroused great passion among the public and triggered everyone's sensitive nerves. To this end, ByteDance has twice issued a response and explanation on the intranet regarding the incident.

It can be seen that even though ByteDance canceled the "Big and Small Weeks" in August last year and strictly stipulated overtime hours and overtime mechanisms, this has not alleviated the current situation of ByteDance. , and the reality of high-pressure work in the entire Internet industry.

Just at the beginning of this month, "Twilight Muxin", an employee of the Graphic and Text Review Department of the Content Security Center of Bilibili, passed away due to a large-scale cerebral hemorrhage after resuscitation failed. This has caused public concern about overwork in the Internet industry. condemnation, sympathy and reflection.

According to a set of data released by the National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, the number of sudden deaths in our country is as high as 550,000 every year, and the success rate of treatment for sudden deaths outside the hospital is only about 1%. Although people over 65 years old are at high risk of sudden death, in recent years there has been a trend of younger people. Emotional excitement and fatigue are the main factors causing sudden death.

Young people need to protect their cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

Current medical reports are supporting the continued increase in the number of sudden deaths due to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in our country. The "China Cardiovascular Health and Disease Report 2020") shows that the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases in my country continues to rise. The number of patients currently is about 330 million, of which 13 million are strokes (also known as strokes or cerebrovascular accidents), and 13 million are coronary heart diseases. 11.39 million, and 8.9 million for heart failure. In the past decade or so, the mortality rate from cardiovascular disease among urban and rural residents in my country has also shown an upward trend. In 2018, death from cardiovascular disease ranked first among the total causes of death among urban and rural residents in my country.

In an article studying the high sudden death rate among young people, Dr. Ding Xiang said: Over the past 30 years, the overall mortality rate from cardiovascular disease in our country has shown a rapid upward trend. From 205/100,000 in 1990 to 322/100,000 in 2019, the mortality rate per 100,000 is 1.6 times that of 30 years ago.

At the same time, it should be noted that in the past two decades, the proportion of deaths among young people has increased significantly, which is closely related to active or passive unhealthy living habits. Including smoking, drinking, obesity, unhealthy diet, sitting for a long time, etc. Long-term sleep deprivation will not only increase sudden death due to cardiovascular disease, but also increase the risk of accidents due to reduced cognitive function.

Surveys show that about 80% of white-collar workers in my country are overtired. Chronic fatigue stress is not only the cause of premature coronary heart disease in young and middle-aged people, but also an important cause of sudden cardiac death in young and middle-aged patients with coronary heart disease, accounting for 65% to 80% of sudden cardiac death cases.

In the context of the continued increase in cardiovascular disease prevalence, it is particularly important to pay attention to health and self-protection awareness. In January this year, a Tencent graduate employee publicly questioned the company's senior executives for working unreasonably high-intensity overtime just to meet project progress and ignore employee health. The fresh graduate criticized the WeChat product department's comment on "more than 20 consecutive hours of design and development" in the "Breakthrough Self Award": "If the internal test is delayed by one day, will Enterprise WeChat go bankrupt soon? The official website will be delayed by one day, and customers will Do you immediately go to DingTalk Feishu? Do you have to ask the developers to work more than 20 hours to make this version meet your expectations? Have you considered your subordinates when scheduling tasks? Life or death? ”

Later, Huang Tieming, the head of Enterprise WeChat, responded on Tencent’s internal forum: He recognized this student’s attitude of daring to speak out. Continuous and high-intensity rush marches are not lasting, and will inevitably affect everyone's work-life balance and health. "From the perspective of a department manager, my attitude is that we will never judge a person's work performance or performance ranking based solely on the number of hours worked. This is unobjective and unsustainable." Huang Tieming said.

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News of sudden death of employees from another major Internet company has been reported. And this time, it is Bytedance, which was once ridiculed by netizens, "Bytes and hearts can only have one beat."

28-year-old employee died suddenly

"Another Byte employee died suddenly, and his wife was two months pregnant. Tragic..." Late at night on February 22, a netizen broke the news on Maimai, with the words An employee died suddenly on the company's website, which immediately sparked heated discussions.

As the incident continues to unfold, more and more details are revealed.

Some netizens said that the incident happened in the company’s gym and they saw CPR compressions being performed.

Later, it was reported on the Internet that the employee’s wife made a statement on the social platform. The employee involved in the accident was an image algorithm engineer in ByteDance’s video architecture department. He had been with ByteDance for almost four years and was only 28 years old this year.

The most important thing is that I usually work a lot of overtime.

Now, this wife, who is already two months pregnant, not only faces the grief of losing her husband, but also faces a monthly mortgage payment of 21,000 yuan.

The wife of an employee who died suddenly spoke out

At 8 a.m. on February 23, ByteDance refuted the rumor on its intranet, saying that because of the incident Suddenly, there are many misunderstandings in external information, and the employee is still being rescued. However, it is said that he is being rescued, but according to his wife's voice reported on the Internet, he is currently in a state of brain death, and the possibility of being rescued is very low. In the afternoon, ByteDance posted on its intranet that at 13:43 on February 23, it was learned from the hospital that Wu passed away after 41 hours of rescue.

In the screenshot, ByteDance stated that it had borne all the medical expenses and provided full logistical support. The company will also provide pension and care to Wu’s family, assist in handling related matters, and try its best to help his family get through the crisis.

Overtime work is the norm in major Internet companies

After the news of the sudden death of an employee at ByteDance, another ByteDance engineer came forward and talked about his fight against the overtime culture. story.

In this speech, we can understand that, at least in the department of the deceased, overtime is the norm.

The boss will ask you to leave work after 9:30 every night. If you don’t obey, there will be shoes waiting for you to wear. It reminds me of last June, when ByteDance had an intern who became famous overnight. Just because I went to bed before twelve o'clock and failed to respond to messages and handle work in time, everyone in the entire department knew about it the next day.

It can be seen from this that at ByteDance, the phenomenon of overtime has long become the norm. In fact, it’s not just about beats. It can be said that the same phenomenon exists in the entire Internet industry.

Only half a month has passed since the news of the sudden death of an auditor at Station B while working overtime during the Spring Festival, and the person at Station B was only 25 years old.

Half a month later, another ByteDance employee died suddenly at the age of 28. It reminds us of some time ago, a fresh graduate at Tencent got angry at the management in a large group for working overtime, and finally resigned in anger.

“There is no malice, I just want to ask the leaders, if the internal beta is postponed for one day, will Enterprise WeChat collapse immediately? If the official website is delayed for one day, will customers immediately go to DingTalk Feishu? ? Do you have to ask the developers to work more than 20 hours to make this version meet your expectations? Have you considered the life and death of your subordinates when scheduling tasks? ”

This It is a soul-searching question for the company's management. Is the brutal expansion of the Internet industry achieved at the expense of the overtime and health of countless workers? During the rapid expansion of the Internet industry, the "996 blessing report" became popular; but now that the entire industry has entered a period of contraction, the overtime culture has become more and more intense.

The Internet industry has entered a period of contraction

From the end of last year to this year, ByteDance conducted multiple layoffs.

Starting with the education business, then games, then local life, and most recently, Byte’s entire strategic investment department was laid off for optimization. In order to maintain growth, Byte gradually expanded its territory to various fields such as medical care, education, corporate services, social networking, consumption, and real estate through internal R&D and investment. However, this lottery-style play did not achieve the expected results. The education and gaming businesses have suffered setbacks one after another, and the real estate business has also suffered frequent setbacks. In addition, just this afternoon, ByteDance completely divested itself of its securities business.

The side business did not work well, and the core business began to stop growing. On November 18 last year, ByteDance’s commercial products department held an all-staff meeting, at which it was officially confirmed that its domestic advertising revenue had stopped growing in the past six months. As the main income of ByteDance, advertising revenue is very harmful. In addition, according to the Securities Times, revenue from Douyin has stopped growing, and another core product, Toutiao, is even on the verge of losing money. In the past ten years, the number of characters has been advancing rapidly, but now it can no longer move.

Oh no, it is actually the entire Internet industry that is struggling.

Bilibili, which had also reported the sudden death of its employees before, as of the close of trading on February 23, had a share price of HK$248 and a total market value of 96.354 billion yuan. At the end of June last year, Bilibili’s share price was as high as HK$1,052. In just over 7 months, it plummeted 76%, and its market value evaporated by more than HK$300 billion.

Judging from the financial report, Station B lost 2.686 billion yuan in the third quarter alone, becoming the most losing money streaming media in 2021. Judging from last year's Q3 financial report, Internet companies such as Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu have all experienced a slowdown in growth. Prosperous Internet companies have changed their previous high-profile style and are more focused on "shaping" the image of not making money or losing money. In April 2021, Alibaba was fined 18.228 billion, but this was just the beginning. Subsequently, Huabei and Jiebei launched brand isolation work, and Huhubao was shut down.

On December 23, 2021, Tencent Holdings suddenly announced that it would reduce its holdings in JD.com Group by paying dividends, and finally broke up after ten years of holding hands.

In other words, Internet companies can no longer be high-profile. At this time, when large companies are forced to give up the benefits gained from their previous brutal expansion under pressure from all aspects, the feelings of internal employees will be more obvious. For the next growth point of the big factory, those who can't stay will be laid off directly, and those who can stay will work overtime like crazy. But for workers who just want to make a little extra money and work overtime too much, no one knows which overtime work will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Sudden death of employees at major Internet companies 3

"ByteDance employee who died suddenly" is confirmed to have passed away!

According to Jiemian News, on February 23, in response to the sudden death of a ByteDance employee named Wu, the ByteDance intranet issued an announcement stating that after 41 hours of rescue, the employee died at 13:00 Unfortunately passed away at 43 minutes.

Bytedance said, “The company has borne all medical expenses and fully provided logistical support. The company will also provide pension and care to Wu’s family, assist in handling related matters, and try its best to help his family tide over the difficulties. ”

ByteDance previously stated that it was still making every effort to rescue

At 9 o’clock in the evening on February 22, the wife of the employee (Wu Wei) went to her owner. The WeChat group asked for help, saying, "My husband died suddenly at ByteDance. He was only 28 years old. I am also 28 years old and currently 2 months pregnant. Our monthly mortgage payment is more than 21,000, and the mortgage is 30 years. My lover My sudden death has left me unable to afford the mortgage. I would like to ask my friends what I should do and whether I can check out and get a refund.”

On February 23, ByteDance’s intranet posted a message saying “Byte is 28 years old.” An article was posted in response to the incident of "employee's sudden death", saying that the student behaved abnormally while exercising in the gym on the 21st. The coach called 120 to call emergency personnel to the scene for treatment and then sent him to the ambulance. As of 0:30 on February 23, the student was in critical condition. Still under emergency treatment in the hospital.

According to ByteDance’s explanation, at 18:00 on February 21, Wu went to the Zhongweitong Gym to exercise. At 18:56, Wu developed dizziness after exercising for about an hour and entered the tea room to rest. The gym instructor noticed that the behavior was abnormal and stepped forward to inquire. Student Wu said he might have low blood sugar, and the coach immediately poured him a glass of sugar water and notified the administrative front desk to activate the SOS number.

At 19:09, the security manager obtained a sphygmomanometer for support. After measuring Wu’s blood pressure, he suggested contacting colleagues to accompany him to the doctor. During this period, classmate Wu suffered from vomiting. At 19:18, the coach called 120. At the same time, the security manager and another security guard performed CPR first aid on Wu (both of them held first aid certificates).

At about 19:30, 120 emergency personnel arrived at the scene for treatment, and then sent Wu to the ambulance.

Post-95 architectural designers may die suddenly due to overtime work

According to Red Star News, on February 16 this year, Shanghai Youan Juzuo Architectural Design Office Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as: Youan Design (78.590, 0.19, 0.24%)) It was revealed that designer Zhao Lei, who was born in 1996, may have died suddenly in a rental house due to excessive overtime work, which attracted attention.

On February 16, some netizens posted an article on Weibo titled "Euan Design Employee Exposes Colleagues Suspected of Being Exhausted to Death", which aroused heated discussion. The article shows that Zhao Lei, a young designer born in 1996, may have died suddenly in a rental house due to excessive overtime work. The article also stated that the deceased worked in bidding until January 27 before the New Year, and his year-end bonus was deducted. After the New Year, he continued to work overtime.

Subsequently, Youan Design denied to the media three times: non-working hours, non-work place, and non-work reasons. As for the cause of death, Euan Design's board secretary said that he is waiting for forensic identification. Regarding whether compensation will be provided to the family of the deceased, Youan Design said that compensation should not be discussed yet, and everything will have to wait for the results of the forensic examination before making a decision. On February 21, relatives and friends of the deceased told Red Star News that the relatives of the deceased had rushed to Shanghai, and the company is still negotiating with the relatives.

Tianyancha shows that Shanghai Youan Juzuo Architectural Design Office Co., Ltd. is a 100%-owned subsidiary of the listed company Shanghai Youan Architectural Design Co., Ltd.

The latter is an engineering consulting company with Chen Lei as its legal representative and 1,286 employees. It was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange GEM market on April 20, 2021. It has Class A qualification in the construction industry (construction engineering major) and is mainly engaged in research and development, consulting and technical services of architectural design business.

On February 21, relatives and friends of the deceased told Red Star News that after police investigation and evidence collection, the forensic doctor gave the time of death as the evening of February 14. On February 14 (a working Monday), he did not ask for leave from the company and did not go to work. The company went to the deceased's home to search for him at around 10 a.m. on February 15 (a working Tuesday) and found the deceased. Relatives and friends of the deceased also said, "The incident occurred in a rented house. There were other tenants in the same room. There was almost no social interaction on weekdays. After investigation, there was no conflict."

Relatives and friends of the deceased believe that Zhao Lei's sudden death may have been caused by In recent years, I have been working intensively at Euan Design Company. "In the nearly three years from Zhao Lei's graduation to the incident, I heard him mention high-load work many times, and even more so in the period before the incident (January 13, 2022 - January 27, 2022). He accepted a bid, which caused him to work very intensively, and his off-duty hours were often from 2 to 4 in the morning.”

According to Zhao Lei’s chat records during his lifetime, he joined Youan Design after graduating three years ago and worked in the company. The backbone of the project. During the three years of working, words such as "work overtime", "stay up late", "all night", and "death" gradually appeared in Zhao Lei's chat records.

The chat records on January 8 this year show that Zhao Lei said to his friends, "Recently I feel like I am going to die, I can't bear it, and everyone is confused" and "Recently I feel very close to death." After the company received a new bidding project in late January this year, Zhao Lei told his friends, "I'm really going to die. I stay up all night every week." Earlier, Zhao Lei told his friends that he "stays up late every day" and "is almost dying." ”.

In order to record the time of commuting to and from get off work, Zhao Lei specially bought a notebook to record. A working time record in April last year showed that he worked 276.5 hours *** that month, of which he only had 4 days of rest, and the average daily working time exceeded 14 hours on 7 days. This year's chat records also show, "After New Year's Day, there should be no rest between January 16th and January 27th. Most of the time, the work hours are more than 12 hours, and at least two days are more than 15 hours."

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Station B was in trouble due to the "sudden death of an employee" incident

On February 7, Weibo user "Wang Luobei" certified as a workplace blogger said that according to multiple netizens, The leader of the Wuhan AI audit team at Station B was on duty during the Chinese New Year. Under the intensity of the work from 9 pm to 9 am (12 hours), he died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage in the early morning of February 5.

The incident attracted public attention. Subsequently, Station B denied in an internal letter that the employee died suddenly due to overtime work, and stated that the deceased did not work overtime in the week before the incident. “After internal attendance verification, Employees will go to and from work as usual according to the day's work schedule, with working hours from 9:30 to 18:30, with five days off and two days off."

On the evening of February 8, Station B issued another notice stating, "Twilight Mu Xin." After the death, family members and colleagues were plunged into great grief and shock, and related communication and aftermath work were once in chaos. For this, the company would like to express its deep apology to the family of "Twilight Muxin"!

Station B stated that it will recruit an additional 1,000 reviewers this year, and will organize strengthened physical examinations for all members of the Content Security Center starting this month.

In addition, Station B’s official Weibo replied to netizens in the comments, “We have never deleted or changed attendance and overtime records. Please don’t believe rumors easily!”

Global Nearly 1.5 people die from overwork every minute

Working long hours can lead to an increased risk of death from heart disease and stroke.

In May last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) released the world's first survey report on the health effects of long working hours.

The report shows that in one year alone, 745,000 people died from working long hours around the world. On average, nearly 1.5 people die every minute because of overtime work. The "long hours" in this report refers to 55 hours of work per week, which is 17 hours less than "996".

The report states that there is sufficient evidence that people who work long hours (≥55 hours/week) have a 35% increased risk of stroke and death compared with people who work 35-40 hours a week. The risk of ischemic heart disease increased by 17%.

Chen Haixu, associate professor at the Second Medical Center of the People's Liberation Army General Hospital, previously published an article in Popular Science China saying that according to statistics, more than 80% of sudden deaths are sudden cardiac deaths. According to a statistical report on disease deaths in China, about 544,000 people suffer from sudden cardiac death in my country every year, which is equivalent to one person suffering from sudden cardiac death every minute.

In medicine, sudden cardiac death means that the heart stops beating and breathing stops within a short period of time, eventually leading to death. Studies have found that only 1/3 of young people have related medical histories (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, epilepsy, etc.) before sudden death, while 2/3 of young people who die suddenly have no history of related diseases, that is, 2/3 of sudden deaths Occurs in seemingly healthy people. Excessive long-term stress, staying up late, and being sedentary for long periods of time are all risk factors that may lead to sudden death.

Professor Chen Zhenyue from the Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, said that prolonged sitting will have certain effects on the heart and brain, such as increasing the risk of blood clots.

Studies have shown that elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the blood will damage blood vessels and form lipid plaques (i.e. atherosclerosis) on the blood vessel walls. The plaques will gradually increase, leading to Blood vessels narrow, leading to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease and stroke. What is even more dangerous is that unstable plaque rupture or thrombus detachment can block blood vessels in a short period of time, leading to acute myocardial infarction or cerebral infarction, which is life-threatening.

"Plaques in blood vessels are like time bombs. Once they rupture and form thrombus, they may block the blood vessels and lead to myocardial infarction. If treatment is not timely, it may lead to death." Professor Chen Zhenyue said.