Lai micromanaged her time and only allowed her to sleep for a few minutes over the course of four days leading up to the event. Further abuse included imposing daily Christian worship, forcing Sydney to write lines like a schoolchild, daily check-ins over WhatsApp of her outfits as part of “quality control”, and humiliating her in front of colleagues.

Okay. This shit has nothing to do with productivity. That is not putting anyone “in the zone.”. This is not “crunch” culture. This is just straight-up chauvinistic misogynist bullshit.