784

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.

(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

These people may as well tattoo "slave owner" on their foreheads by now.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago

And management will lead by example right?

...right?

[-] Australis13@fedia.io 15 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure these idiots have no concept of the future. They want to burn everyone out in months to years for the sake of boosting their profits in the here and now. Doesn't matter that if you treat your workers well (and pay them well) you often get greater productivity over a longer period.

[-] Darkness343@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

70 hours a week? What? So we can just stare at our screens pretending to work for half that time, if not more?

Go to hell.

[-] shirro@aussie.zone 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You could replace most management people with a rack of GPUs and nobody would notice. Mostly they are a very unimaginative lot parroting the same misguided group think that devalues the employees that create all their companies value. Infosys is a consulting company. They don't make anything or own valuable IP. They pimp out Indian labour to undercut the labour rates and conditions in developed countries which already makes them a shitload of profit.

You would think with increasing options to Indian professionals, their recruitment people would be shitting bricks trying to hire talent with this bullshit out there but they have probably sacked them as well. Though, if I wasn't poor I would probably say all sorts of shit to pump share prices and cash out before the AI bubble bursts.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Another bag of shit that believes in China's 9-9-6 BS so he can float on a yacht. Stay in India loser!

[-] __lone_eagle___@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

To be Frank guys this is the sick reality of Indian workers in India. The Labour and Workers are always exploited as much as Possible. Indian Labour Law is mostly in Favor of the Corporate Crooks, even its harder to start a WORKER UNION in Service based sectors like IT and Non coding Jobs. Normal working hours is 8 hrs but most Indian worker in such sectors their minimum working hour is 10hr (Personal experience), even the work environment it evolved into is one Most Sick and Selfish environment you could ever Imagine. Yes, sadly many Indians Lack Civic sense I don't object and we too are being discriminated in a stereotypical way for that. But I must say that many Indians who leave for On-site is not just for higher payroll but for better Work environment and to embrace their basic Work-Life Balance which is a JOKE in India.

~ Random Comrade

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And yes, he's ragebaiting.

Don't even know if I'm giving him too much credit here; maybe he is literally dumb enough to advocate for modern slavery.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, go fuck yourself guy

[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

So what I'm hearing from that headline alone is that he's a psychopath who doesn't work more than 5 hours a week, and what little """work""" he does consists of getting drunk at lunch and moaning to other CEOs about how lazy his workers are.

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

Hmm time for the real Indian Revolution for fuck sake. These parasites gotta go.

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] HopeOfTheGunblade 8 points 1 week ago

It's not just saturday morning cartoon villain evil.

It's also incredibly fucking stupid.

Anything that you get better outcomes from by making people work longer, like assembly lines, can be done better by robots anyway, and of course you as capital owner don't have to live life after your dominant hand gets crushed and amputated.

Anything that isn't pure rote work, you get better results when people are not overworked and spending thirty hours a week sticking fucking pencils in your acoustic ceiling because nobody's fucking brain works that long and hard.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] hellothere@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Talk about telling on yourself having no idea how to run a business.

[-] coffee_nutcase207@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

People like this need to be named and shamed.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
784 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

77635 readers
1579 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS