Have you not seen how companies (especially tech companies) bandwagon on each other?

The company I work for follows several practices Google and Spotify follow, even though they don't make sense for us.

>The company I work for follows several practices Google and Spotify follow, even though they don't make sense for us.

So your company is cargo culting "thought leadership" from Google, you can see it's a poor fit and you're still there because...? Let me guess, the money?

As with the 996 stuff, if you're not happy to work in those conditions then don't.

Are children and poor people forced to work in sweatshops?

He's a person with influence who is endorsing a labor practice. I'm pretty sure no one was ever forced to work for Karl Marx or Adam Smith, yet somehow their opinions on labor managed to affect peoples' working conditions.