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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 21, @07:38PM (1 child)
I have this model in my head of zero sum interactions being essentially linear in nature. If the whole pie is equal to 1, then for you to get "x" I must lose "x". However empathy and team spirit are a quadratic term. Basically, the loss of x can be compensated by gain of an x^2 from the satisfaction/enjoyment of not seeing others suffer. This term is dependent on the person. I'd say liberals have a larger 2nd order term while conservatives a smaller one. Psychopaths have a negative one (i.e. the cruelty is the point).
Zero sum is 1-x : x while second order is 1-x+alpha*x^2 : x. The variable alpha controls how much empathy one has towards reducing the suffering of others.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 22, @12:00AM
Most "conservatives" have a zero or negative one too, trust me.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...