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Infosys founder Narayama Murthy has tripled down on his previous statements that 70-hour work weeks are what's needed in India and revealed he also thinks weekends were a mistake.
Speaking on Indian TV channel CNBC-TV18 at the Global Leadership Summit in Mumbai last week Murthy once again declared he did not “believe in work-life balance.”
“I have not changed my view; I will take this with me to my grave,” he asserted .
The argument from Murthy, and like-minded colleagues he quotes, is that India is a poor country that has work to do improving itself. Work-life balance can wait.
The Infosys founder held prime minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet up as an example of proper workaholics, claiming the PM toils for 100 hours a week, and suggested that not following suit demonstrates a lack of appreciation.
“Frankly I was a little bit disappointed in 1986 when we moved from a six-day week to a five-day week,” he added.
[...] In response to his Murthy’s comments, some have suggested that long working hours are acceptable when you own your own company, but perhaps not ideal as an employee.
“This man has been given too much of an importance by asking his opinion about everything under the sun. His words remind me of those exploitative barons of medieval ages from whom the 8 hours work day rights had to be snatched,” quipped a commenter who claims to be a former Infosys employee.
[...] Despite its founder’s firm stance that India’s workforce be fully engaged, Infosys has recently received attention for promising 2,000 graduates a job and them making them wait up to two years to start work.
The engineers-in-waiting were allegedly kept busy with occasional training and promises after being selected for employment during Infosys’ 2022/23 recruitment drive.
(Score: 5, Touché) by bzipitidoo on Thursday November 21, @01:22PM (2 children)
In America, people think about all the time they lose sleeping, and try to do as little sleeping as possible! We still don't know why animals need sleep, all the more reason not to do it!
And you know, bathroom breaks are stretched out by those lazy slackers to dodge work! Employers shouldn't have to pay employees while they are in the bathroom, and now, technology makes it possible to automatically clock people out when they enter the bathroom. Could apply this automatic clocking in and out to the nooks where vending machines with highly overpriced snacks are, but that might hurt company store profits. Decisions, decisions, sigh. We successfully abolished paid lunch time, first cutting it from an hour to half an hour or just 15 minutes, then allowing it to lengthen again once everyone agreed you shouldn't get paid for time spent on a food break. That song "9 to 5", well, Dolly Parton should be shot for having put to music such Socialist ideas as paid lunch times!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 21, @01:29PM (1 child)
Brain maintenance.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 21, @02:59PM
The people who don't know why animals need sleep have done so little brain maintenance for themselves that they'll never figure it out.
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