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Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking (www.techradar.com)
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Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has once again called for longer working weeks has returned, this time with an emphasis on schedules like the 996-pattern used in parts of China.

Murthy's comments revive a debate which began in 2024, when he argued that Indian employees should work 70 hours a week.

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[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 40 points 2 weeks ago

Paying someone 70 hours has the same cost as paying two persons 35 hours, right? (In my country technically no, because higher base taxation)

What he wants is to pay one person for 70hrs, the same as he'd pay one person for 35 hrs.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 points 2 weeks ago

AND he will massively underpay that worker for their 35 hours.

[-] mcv@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Pay workers the bare minimum they need to survive, and have them spend all their waking hours working for you. That's how you get rich, apparently.

[-] Chulk@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

And he wants person 2 to be desperate for person 1's job

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