•  stoy   ( @stoy@lemmy.zip ) 
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    138 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • When your entire existence relies on exploiting the work of the people who are “under you”, of course you want them to work harder, faster and more. They’d crack out the whip if they’d get away with it.

    These rotten billionaires don’t care about our little lives or how much we enjoy or very short time on this planet, they only care about maximizing share prices and filling their pockets with bonuses that the workers are earning for them.

    •  Titan   ( @Titan@beehaw.org ) 
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      48 months ago

      They get away with it in some countries. The last Fifa World Cup was built by modern day slaves. And people still traveled there, sponsors like Coca Cola and Hyundai/Kia stood proudly behind them

  • 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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