Forsdike said the long work hours under China's 996 culture took a toll on his mental and physical health.Jack ForsdikeJack Forsdike is a British citizen who worked for two years at a Chinese tech giant in Guangzhou.He experienced 996 when he became a game designer in 2024 and soon realized why it's dreaded.He told BI how 996 took control of his life and that it was only the minimum of the expectations put on him.This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Jack Forsdike, a 28-year-old British expat from Manchester who worked from 2022 to 2024 for one of China's biggest game developers.