Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks
www.theregister.com
Do it for India, says Narayana Murthy, seemingly unaware that China, Japan, and South Korea all have overworking problems
  • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    His entire fortune is built on the backs of overworked people. No wonder he is trying to manipulate people into working unreasonable amount of hours.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    My first real job was working 12h shifts at a global company's internal IT helpdesk.

    The shifts were alternating day/night periods on an irregular schedule.

    I have worked 60 hour weeks, 5 days in a row, and that shit can fuck right off, I can't even imagine working 70 hour weeks.

    I suspect this guy either has worked like crazy to build his company up from the ground and believe that his employees should feel the same drive as he did as the owner, or that he has never worked close to that much in a week, and is just looking at a pie chart of the available hours in the day.

    I am glad for the job I had back then, even if the hours sucked, I learned a lot, and it made me apriciate the free time I got when I started working normal hours, but I would not wish those hours on anyone, they killed my social life, and even seven years later I have not recovered it.

  • lustyargonian@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Truth be told, every single person can only give so much of their brain or body to a job in long term. You may think you're working 14 hours a day regularly, but it's usually 2-3 hours a day of productive use of time, rest can be busy work, at least in the tech industry. I don't mean there can never be times when you actually work for 14 hours daily, but it'll burn you out so quickly that you'll end up taking longer breaks, quitting or just becoming toxic in other areas of your life. Not worth it.

    It's like induced demand. Wider roads don't necessarily mean faster traffic. More working hours doesn't mean better productive use of time. That's why we see reports telling how 4 day work weeks actually improved productivity. Less time for BS.

  • HowMany@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    They're not working for the country. What nationalistic hype. They're working for some asshole who's making all the money off their labor. India needs even more corrections to the government than the United States.