Xiaomi’s pivot from smartphones to electric vehicles may have come at a human cost, as the wife of one worker alleges the intense schedule contributed to his death last year. Bloomberg’s Peter Elstrom discusses the story and the culture of long working hours in the Chinese tech sector with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.”
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@fineline392
November 3, 2025 at 3:51 pm
…but at what cost?
miss me with that prop@g@nda
@yaqoobattal
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 pm
Please enlighten us about the human cost of Amer8can weapons 😂😂😂😂😂
@andyballard1883
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 pm
So are you trying to smear the company here or what ?. I’m sure there are plenty of managers who feel they have to work consistently extended hours in Space X, Tesla and musk was ruthless with staff when he took over Twitter
@charlesyang988
November 3, 2025 at 6:10 pm
From what I read in the book Apple In China, lots of Apple employees in USA died on the job too.
@knopeace
November 3, 2025 at 7:30 pm
If you can’t defeat them, defame them.