TikTok Forcibily Makes Staff Work 12 Hours A Day, Six Days A Week

A former senior-level TikTok employee said that managers made employees work 12-hour days six days a week. This is what the person said.

Managers at the popular video-sharing app would often ask employees to work on the weekends and stay late at work, says Pabel Martinez, who made $220,000 a year at TikTok before he left.

In the report, Martinez said he had worked for three years at Facebook’s parent company, Meta. He said he left the Chinese-owned company earlier this year.

Asked by Insider, “I do think that there is a culture of working too much or not having enough work-life balance that runs through the company. It is often encouraged that you work “after hours.” “The 996 policy is well-known.”

Business practices in China say that workers should start at 9 am and finish at 9 pm six days a week, and the number “996” refers to these times.

A source at TikTok told the New York Post that the company doesn’t have a “996” rule.

Toward the end of last year, ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, cut back on working hours. It told its employees that they had to come in at 10 am and leave at 7 pm and that they had to be done by then. The workweek would be from Monday to Friday.

Employees, however, said that they were still required to log in to meetings at odd times because of the time difference between the company’s US operations and its headquarters in China.

That’s not how we do business here, Martinez said.

When he shared his $220,000 annual salary on LinkedIn as part of “Latina Equal Pay Day,” he was also told not to do that.

Martinez said he was under a lot of pressure from strict, bi-monthly revenue and growth goals, as well as 360-degree performance reviews.

Martinez told Insider that he was made to feel like he was never good enough. At TikTok, no one asked, “How are you?” ‘How’s the money coming in?’ “What are we doing to grow our business more?”

The Post asked TikTok for comment, but the company didn’t answer right away.

To help build a “culture of transparency and feedback,” TikTok gave surveys to its employees, which they filled out and sent back. The company also said that because it was a global company, it had to plan meetings across different time zones.

TikTok said it was trying to hire more local people who could work more independently and avoid having to meet at odd hours, so they wouldn’t have to.

 

Parental leave and a policy of no meetings during certain hours were also said to be things that the company did. TikTok: “Our main goal is to build and nurture a team that is able to support our growing global community.”

“We encourage openness and feedback, and we work hard to build a platform and business that both our community and our employees can thrive on.”

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