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I hope you don't mind if I ask you a few questions about work in China as it may be relevant to me in the future:

1) I've heard China often has 6-day workweeks as a norm, is this true? And likewise that official time off (vacation time for instance) is hard to come by? 2) Do you work on the technical side of things? If so how did you get the position? (I work in consulting and right now we don't actually have any clients in China).

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1) as far as I know, 5-day workweeks are the norm. I don't know companies that require you to work 6 days. The boss of course doesn't mind if you come in the weekend, but it's not required.

2) we have quite a lot of holidays. Everyone has the national days off + some annual holidays that you can use whenever you want.

I'm a programmer yes. I took part in an innovation contest, got the job that way. Was lucky :) Working in a Chinese company is not easy, it's better if you first learn at least some Chinese.

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