Yi Wang
ABSTRACT
Unpaid Overtime Working widely exists in current China's software industry. However, there are few empirical studies on this issue. In this paper, we describe an ongoing exploratory study on the unpaid overtime working of the China's software engineers. We use semi-controlled interview as our major research method and some preliminary results are presented. We describe the software engineers' attitudes, current unpaid overtime working situations and summarize six reasons that motivate them accept unpaid overtime working. The influence of the unpaid overtime working is also presented from both the individual and organizational levels.
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