China Social Media Reacts After Programmer’s Workplace Toilet Death Deemed ‘Not On Duty’
A Shenzhen bureau reportedly rejected a company’s application to classify a programmer’s death in an office toilet as work-related, citing that he was not at his workstation and had not logged onto his computer. The case is driving public scrutiny of how ‘on-duty’ status is defined for desk-based technology workers and could influence HR and claims practices.