The debate around hustle culture happens to be never ending. While many promote long hours at works, people have now also started supporting a work life balance. Amid all of this, Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy’s statement is doing rounds on social media and getting slammed brutally. The CEO has said that in order for India to compete with economies that have made tremendous progress in the past 2-3 decades, youngsters need to work 70 hours a week. The conversation took place on the first episode of 3one4 Capital’s podcast ‘The Record’.
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He said, “India’s work productivity is one of the lowest in the world. Unless we improve our work productivity, unless we reduce corruption in the government at some level, because we have been reading I don’t know the truth of it, unless we reduce the delays in our bureaucracy in taking this decision, we will not be able to compete with those countries that have made tremendous progress.” Further, he added, “This is my country. I would like to work 70 hours a week.”
The statement is now viral with multiple people criticising it for completely throwing away the idea of work life balance.
“What an elitist take!! I can’t even fathom how he suggests such gruelling work hours. Does he know the time people spend travelling? How tough life can be? Don’t they deserve time with family?” wrote an ‘X’ user. Another person wrote, “With this statement, Mr. Murthy is essentially pushing women out of the workplace. Men are never going to share the load of housekeeping, caregiving and childrearing. With a 70 hour work week, women will have no choice but to drop out.”
Here are a few responses:
Indirectly #Infosys founder Narayana Murthy is saying..work 12 hours per day
spoil your mental health due to NO proper sleep
after spoiling ur health,spend lakhs of rupees in hospitals for ur treatment
increase the business of Infosys
increase profit,revenue of Infosys pic.twitter.com/YEEVdoEoig
— Sharanu.N (@sharanu_ja) October 27, 2023
For Indians — and not just India — to progress, capitalists like Narayana Murthy should help create more jobs, make better use of their corporate social responsibility funds & most importantly not exploit youngsters. pic.twitter.com/eL6wAvT7zE— Mirza Arif Beg (@Iammirzaarif) October 26, 2023
Seems like Narayana Murthy thinks employees are his slaves… he is trying back to bring back slavery in modern times. pic.twitter.com/yEJ1qZnApI— Ze (@ranjithka) October 27, 2023
#Infosys cofounder #NarayanaMurthy says Indianyouth shld work 70hr/ week Let's quickly see the calculationsAvrg salary 3 lk pa after deduction 20k/month, 5k/week and if work 70hours then it comes around 72rs/hour it's even less then a dollar/hourwhat abt work life balance? pic.twitter.com/AdGxpghrXW— Arya (@aryaa_lalit) October 26, 2023
Why do we have to work 70 hours for you to became a millionaire. Youngster not a slave. We have life after the job. @Infosys#Infosys @narayana_murty_ @Infosys_nmurthy— Ashok msat mc (@ashokmsat) October 26, 2023
'Youngsters Should Work 70 Hours A Week': Infosys Founder @Infosys_nmurthy @narayana_murty_ Sir won’t it be better if people dependent on freebies start contributing to the nation, youngsters work for 50-60 hour to remain healthy https://t.co/tSIStuldXJ— Amrish Singhvi (@AmrishSinghvi) October 27, 2023
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