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The former employee identified as Pabel Martinez said employees were frequently asked to attend meetings on weekends.
Data collected on July 2 by LinkedIn the number of company employees reached 4,413 in June 2020.
There are many brands in the world where their own employees are beginning to raise their voices and denounce the arbitrariness that is recorded around labor laws. A report recently revealed that the TikTok platform forces its employees to work 12 hours a day and six days a week.
According to data from Indeed, TikTok has global offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo. Also, according to information from the company and reviewed by Reuters, has doubled its number of employees globally in 2020.
According to data collected on July 2 by LinkedIn, the number of employees of the company reached 4,413 in June 2020, up from 1,824 in December 2019. While, its parent company ByteDance more than tripled its number of employees in the United States between June 2019 and June 2020.
Worker exhibits the bad practices of TikTok with his employees
A former high-level worker at the Chinese digital platform claimed that managers they make employees work 12 hours a day, six days a week.
The former employee, identified as Pabel Martínez, highlighted that TikTok managers frequently asked employees to they attended meetings on weekends in addition to working off-hours.
Likewise, the former employee of the social network who claimed to have earned 220,000 thousand dollars a year detailed to Business Insider that “The 996 policy is infamous.”
This policy refers to “996” numbers as business practices in China, where it is expected that workers start at 9 AM and finish at 9 PM which corresponds six days a week.
“I think the culture of working too hard or not having as much work-life balance pervades the entire organization, and working ‘off the clock’ is often encouraged,” he said.
The former worker of the social network mentioned that on one occasion he objected to being forced to attend meetings on Saturdays and Sundays, they told him: “That’s not how we do business here.”
He added that he was also reprimanded when he publicly shared his annual salary of $220,000 on LinkedIn as part of “Latino Equal Pay Day.”
“They made me feel like I was never doing enough. On TikTok, no conversation started with ‘How are you?’ It was like, ‘How’s the revenue? What are we doing to drive further growth?’” she said.
Let us remember that in the past the social network told employees that they had to register atat 10 AM and end at 7 PM, as well as that the working week would be limited to Monday through Friday.
Nevertheless, employees informed the news outlet that they still needed to log into meetings at odd hours due to the time difference between the company’s operations in the United States and its headquarters in Beijing.
As a way of defending itself, the technological brand responded to the position request made by the media where they highlighted that “It sought to cultivate a culture of transparency and feedback through surveys delivered to employees.”
“Our focus is to build and nurture a team that is empowered to support our growing global community,” a TikTok spokesperson said.
Complaints where they expose the bad practices of large companies against their employees have become popular today, where companies like Amazon and Starbucks have been in public opinion around the world for the creation of unions of its workers that seek to defend themselves against these bad practices.
On April 1, Amazon workers managed to win a labor battle in the United States and, with a close vote, were able to endorse the creation of the first union of the eCommerce tycoon, in New York.
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