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Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks • The Register (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

“My request is that our youngsters must say ‘This is my country I want to work 70 hours a week’,” he said, adding “this is exactly what Germans and Japanese did after the Second World War.”

Working those extreme hours, he added, will define a culture that ultimately improves India’s government by setting an example.

He added his view that long working hours will help to propel India to become one of the world’s top two economies in coming decades.

Ironically, Infosys – the company Murthy co-founded and served as CEO from 1981 to 2002, recently reported its staff utilization rate is currently 81.8 percent – less than half the 70 hours the former boss wants young Indians to work.

The former CEO also appeared ignorant of the fact that long working hours have created problems elsewhere - including in the nations he wants India to emulate and surpass.

China’s tech industry developed a culture in which 72-hour working weeks became the norm, leading workers to push back, hard against the expectations of overwork and the nation’s courts to agree that employers could not reasonably require long hours.

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