’Youth should work 70 hours a week’: Narayana Murthy’s statement gets slammed on social media
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Bengaluru, Oct 27, 2023: 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’.
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.”
Indirectly #Infosys founder Narayana Murthy is saying..
— Sharanu.N🇮🇳 (@sharanu_ja) October 27, 2023
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
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.”