Always-on Alibaba office app fuels backlash among Chinese workers
After working for that company for awhile... The entire goal is to look busy, so people create work and don't accomplish a whole lot. 10-12 hour days are expected whether or not you have work to do, or if your work efficiently. The Chinese are also very suspicious of anyone that is not Chinese, and you're very much considered an outsider and will be informed on a need to know basis if that's the case. They're wildly successful inside China, but that's likely more do to government protected Monopoly than actually having a product that works. The best part of working there is when I pointed out builds with failing tests were making it to production, and the architect in charge told me that they can still release, it just decreases the 'quality score'.