A survey of CEOs in business startups found that doing overtime is the new normal as about 67 percent work 12 hours a day among other challenges.

　　一项针对初创企业CEO的调查发现，加班是一种新常态，约67%的人每天工作12小时，此外还要面临其他的挑战。

　　The report, released by online recruitment website Zhipin.com and entrepreneurial service platform Krspace.cn, researched the lifestyle of 12,087 CEOs in startup companies that finished series C rounds of fundraising or before.

　　移动互联网招聘平台BOSS直聘联合企业服务平台氪空间，对12087位C轮及以下融资阶段企业CEO们的生活日常进行了调查。

　　Over nine percent of CEOs worked more than 16 hours a day, twice the legal working hours in China, and have been under stress for a long time, said the report.

　　超过9%的创业CEO每日工作16小时以上，是国家法定正常工作时间的两倍，长期处于超负荷的工作状态，报告说。

　　It also showed that nearly 80 percent of startup CEOs slept less than seven hours a day, lower than the healthy recommendation. Among these, more than 90 percent worked in the more competitive first-tier cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Over 75 percent work in the IT and Internet industries, which are developing rapidly.

　　报告还显示，近八成初创企业CEO每天睡眠时间不足7小时，低于健康睡眠时间。这部分人中，九成以上来自北上广深等企业竞争压力更大的一线城市，有四分之三以上出自更新迭代迅猛的IT/互联网行业。

　　The survey found that 33 percent of CEOs in startups chose not to receive a salary, and the same proportion only drew a symbolic basic salary. Only ten percent of CEOs have a salary reaching market level or slightly higher than the company average. More than half of all CEOs participating in the survey still lived in rented houses.

　　报告还发现，33%的初创企业CEO选择不领薪水，还有一些CEO的薪水勉强达到市场价或略高于公司内部的平均水平。而所有参与调研的CEO中，超过半数以上仍在租房。

　　In the survey, 77 percent said that labor costs were the biggest expense, followed by R&D investment and marketing costs. Some 52 percent of CEOs said that they needed to control rental costs.

　　在被调研的CEO中，77%的人表示，初创企业中人力成本是最大的支出项，其次是研发投入和营销成本。高达52%的CEO则表示，他们得考虑控制租金成本。

　　More than half of the CEOs said they were most worried about a break of the capital chain during business development, followed by a shortage of talent and veering off course from developing trends.

　　半数以上的CEO表示在创业过程中最担心资金链断裂，除此之外，人才紧缺，方向错误也是CEO们非常担心的问题。