There has been a long debate in the country for a long time about the work hours in week. The first Infosys co-founder NR Narayan Murthy advocated 70 hours a week, while then SN Subrahmanyan, chairman of the engineering sector sector company L&T, advised to work for 90 hours a week further. He was trolled fiercely about this, but now another CEO statement has come about working hours, which is completely different. IT service company Capgemini India CEO Ashwin Yardi has against the weekends to work with the employees and said why should it give the employees ‘sorrow’?
47.5 hours of work advice a week
Capgemini India CEO joined the NASSCOM Technology and Leadership Forum on Tuesday and during this time an employee asked him a question about the Ideal Working Hour every week. Regarding this, he said that 47 hours 20 minutes, we have 9 hours to work during the day and five days. He said in response that I have been working on the principle of not sending any kind of email to employees on weekends for the last 4 years.
‘Does not mean hurting the employee …’
In the midst of the ongoing debate in the country on the ideal work hours, Capgemini India CEO Ashwin Yardi advocated the 47.5 -hour work week and emphasized the need to honor the time of the employees. He said that he himself works on weekends sometimes, but especially for such works, there is no point in increasing the burden on the employees, which cannot be taken immediate action. He said, ‘There is any justification for hurting an employee.
NASSCOM Chairperson supported yardi
Speaking in support of Ashwin Yardi’s statement, NAScom’s chairperson and SAP India Chief Sindhu Gangadharan said that the results of more work should be given importance than the number of hours of work. Meanwhile, CEO of Marico Company Saugat Gupta also reiterated the same thing, although he admitted to sending emails to his employees by 11 pm but supported Ashwin Yardi’s talk of not working on weekends.
Why the issue of work became a matter of discussion
Let us know that the statement of Infosys Co-founder Narayan Murthy came first for the work hours and he advised 70 hours a week. The debate started on this issue would stop, when the L&T chairman gave such advice to his employees, which created a ruckus. He had advocated 90 hours of work and told the employees that how long will you be stared at the house? He further said that I would have been happy if I could have made you work on weekends too. L&T Chairman was fiercely trolled on social media for this statement.