"For the development of the country, young people should voluntarily work for 70 hours a week." At the end of October, N.R. Narayana Murthy, a billionaire Narana Murthy,Speaking ignited Indian public opinion.

Multi is the founder of Indian IT giant India, and the father -in -law of British Prime Minister Sonak.In his conversation, he pointed out: "India is one of the countries with the lowest work efficiency in the world. If we do not improve work efficiency, we will not be able to compete with those countries that have achieved great progress."

"Therefore, my request is -our young people must say‘ this is my country, I am willing to work 70 hours a week ’.” He added.

After these remarks were widely spread, Molti received criticism from software engineers, human resources professionals, and unions, but also received the support of some parliamentarians and company executives.In social platforms and newspapers, people have launched a fierce debate on the "toxic" work culture and employers' expectations for employees.

"70 hours a week" remarks madly, code farmers are angry

Murdi's remarks particularly triggered the anger of Indian code farmers.

"To work for 70 hours a week, you must work 11.66 hours a day every Saturday, or stay for 10 hours a day without stopping for seven days. Such a crazy working day does not leave any space for personal life or family happiness.For retirees of funds, it is easy to put forward such an inevitable suggestion.Complain.In the "Factory Law" promulgated by India in 1948, employees must not work for more than 9 hours a day (some states do not require more than 8 hours), or must not exceed 48 hours a week.

The main reason for the public is that long -term work may cause physical and mental health.Dr. Deepak Krishnamurthy, an expert in Bandolo, wrote on X (former Twitter): "There is no time to socialize, no time to talk to family, no time to exercise, no time entertainment, not to be entertaining, not to be needed It is said that the company still wants people to reply to emails and calls after get off work.

At the same time, many people agreed with Murdi's suggestions.Just after Murdi's remarks, the celebrities in India began to line up on X, hanging the small national flag, endorsement for their billionaire compatriots.

Manish Tewari, a member of the People's Court, publicly stated on the social platform that he did not understand the commotion caused by the 70 -hour work system around the week.

He takes himself as an example -the parliamentarians work 7 days a week, and work 12 to 15 hours a day, even when he did not remember his last Sunday.

Tavari spares no effort to admire this "fighting method" and believes that this is very reasonable: "If India really becomes a powerful country, one or two generations must work for 70 hours a week as their own professional ethics." He once againIt is emphasized that the 70 -hour work system and 15 -day vacation should become "normal" per week.

AM Naik, Honorary Chairman of the largest engineering group in India, said that he worked 15 hours a day during his 50 years when he developed the project giant and often slept in the office.Even if he returned home after working for a long time, he thought about the company.

In fact, this is not the first time Murdi made a similar remark.As early as 2020, he suggested that the Indians worked at least 64 hours a week in two to three years to make up for the economic slowdown caused by the "new crown pneumonia".

CP Gurnani, chief executive of IT company Tech Mahindra, said Murdi may want people to look at this suggestion in a more comprehensive way."I believe that when he talks about work, he is not only for the company, but also for yourself and your country. He did not say that he worked for the company for 70 hours, but worked for the company for 40 hours and worked for himself for 30 hours."He posted on X and said.

He also called on young people to say that the 70 -hour working system can make people stand out."Investing in 10,000 hours, becoming a master of a certain disciplineHyderabad Wealth Management. Stay up late and become an expert in your field."

Before Murdi's voice, he was forced to extend his working time in more industries.Earlier this year, the Tamilnad Bond government proposed a bill that allowed factories to increase working hours from 8 hours to 12 hours, and then withdrew from the protests of local workers and opposition leaders.

The company's employees may be paid for the corresponding working duration, but zero workers are not even regarded as "employees" by the company. There is no clear "working hours" rule, and their rights and interests have not been valued.The housekeeping industry is the most typical example.Official statistics show that the number of employees in the Indian housekeeping industry is 4.75 million (of which 3 million are women), but this number is considered to be seriously underestimated.state.

In September 2023, the non -profit organization "Bigan Project", which is concerned about global poverty, released a survey. A house politician worker in the area near New Delhi, India, said that because the salary of housekeeping workers is very low, she needs to go every day to go to go toThe five households worked for 11 hours, and even the monthly income was only 23,000 rupees (about 2,000 yuan).However, there will still be countless young women from rural areas accepting this long -term uninterrupted work. Maybe they come to the city from the age of teens, and they will not achieve class leaps for decades, but they look forward to waiting until the age of 50Can see his son become an Indian elite sitting in the office.

Another zero -worker occupation that is forced to extend the length of work is the driver.As the overall economic environment deteriorates, the commissions for delivery, taxis and motorized tricycles are declining, and most drivers are difficult to maintain balance of income and expenditure. They have to work more than 12 hours a day.

Tanveer Pasha, the driver and owner association of Indian car giants Ola and Uber, said most taxi drivers worked for more than 14 hours a day."Many people's working hours even reached 18 to 20 hours. They slept for a few hours in taxis and then started working again. People think that we are individual operators and can freely decide whether to pick up guests or delivery.Freedom of freedom is just nominal. In order to maintain our livelihood, we are generally forced to work more than 12 hours a day.

Although Multi advocated the 70 -hour work system because he believed that the current work efficiency of India is too low, according to data from the International Labor Organization, India is already one of the most diligent countries in the world.Before the epidemic, Indians had an average of more than 2,000 hours per year, much higher than the United States, Brazil and Germany.The weekly working hours reached 47.7 hours, only the average level of Qatar, Congo (cloth), Lesso, Bhutan, Gambia, and the United Arab Emirates was higher than India.

India's "Dream of Powerful Power" depends on chicken blood?

The rich in India is committed to fighting chicken blood for young people.Murdi's arguments are rooted in common arguments in national progress: Only when they increase working hours, India can compete with economies such as India, Japan, and Germany.

2023 is a year for India to greatly improve confidence in the future.As the country with the largest population in the world and the fastest growing emerging economy, India's international status has been improved in the past 12 months.The global attitude survey in August 2023 shows that 46%of citizens in 23 countries have a good impression on India.This is especially true for the United States and most of the allies in Asia and the West.

In January 2023, India held the "Voice of Global South Summit" with 125 countries.In May, India was invited to attend the Seventh -way Group Meeting in Japan and attended the Sifang Summit.In July, India was held in 2023 of the Rotating Chairman of the President Kingdom (SCO) Leadership Summit to be held in a remote video.In August, the BRICS Summit participated in India.In September, India hosted the G20 summit for the first time, and leaders of 43 countries attended.In November, India was invited to participate in the APEC Summit.In January 2024, India will also host the Quartet Safety Dialogue (QUAD) Leadership Summit in New Delhi. At present, India plans to hold this event one day in the future to show its global influence.

As a founding member of the post -colonial country and the unopened movement, India is at the core position of the Indo -Pacific strategy led by the United States.Despite the close relationship with the United States, India still participates in non -Western groups including Russia and India.This relationship shows that Indian leaders want to ensure that their country is not regarded as followers of Western camps.India attaches great importance to strategic autonomy and support for the southern hemisphere (the world without alliance).

The multi -pole world order that India has sought for more than 70 years may not have become a reality, but India is undoubtedly unique today.During the Cold War, the influence of New Delhi mainly came from the diplomatic influence brought by its leadership in the world.Today, India is in a better situation. In addition to diplomatic and military, it shows economic potential.

The October purchasing manager index announced by Standard Purcer also shows that after two years of economic growth in 2021 and 2022, the Indian economy continued to show its continuous strong growth in 2023.It is likely to surpass Japan in 2023 and jump from the fifth largest economy in the world to the third largest economy in the world.

According to Indian media, in December, Indian Prime Minister Modi will release a document entitled "Indian Vision 2047" to achieve the goal of becoming a 300 trillion US dollar developed economy by 2047., Implement measures such as roadmap and avoid moderate income traps.This document will also include plans to cultivate global leaders, solve regional differences, and develop human capital. The roadmaps in India in 2030 and 2047 will also be listed in detail.In the 2024 Indian election, "India's Vision 2047" also highlighted the campaign proposition of Modi and his Indian People's Party and the urgent needs of the country.

Indian economist Ashoka Mody pointed out that the predictions of higher growth rates in the future are inferred by the rebound of the epidemic.In fact, India's current manufacturing industry has a small scale and lack of competitiveness. Since the reform of liberalization in the mid -1980s, the proportion of manufacturing has decreased slightly to about 14%, while India is 27%, Vietnam is 25%And still rising.India has less than 2%of the global export of finished products, and as its economy slows down in the second half of 2022, the manufacturing industry has shrunk further.However, it is precisely through export labor -intensive finished products that South Korea, India and Vietnam currently activate a large number of labor force.Roughly the same.At present, Vietnam has been prepared.

This is why many Indian bosses agree that "5 days of work systems per week is not what Indian families need to develop in India."As the founder of the Indian Internet car giant OLA company Bhavish Aggarwal said: "It's not when we reduce our work and entertain ourselves. On the contrary, now we go all out and in the time of a generation.It was time to build things that have been established by generations in other countries.

"Volume" manpower is important, or is education and innovation important?

However, can excessive extension work achieve the success of a country?

There is a theory in economics called Paradox of Toil, which means that the harder the harder, the poorer.The specific logic is like this. Under normal circumstances, the harder it is to reduce costs, the better the sales will be, the higher the profit, and the better the economy will be.In the context of debt-currency tightening, if everyone strives to reduce costs, the price level will decrease, which will cause more severe shrinkage, leading to the heavier of actual debt, which will cause further demand to shrink, the economy will follow it.deterioration.

In other words, if the economy is in a relatively weak state in the short term, the demand is very insufficient, and the price of the price is great. At this time, even if the reform of productivity is made, the effect brought by the short term is worth considering.

At the press conference after the recent second quarter financial report, Nilanjan Roy, Chief Financial Officer of Indoles, said that Indiacus has a large number of fresh students' human resources and room for improving the utilization of these human resources.Do campus recruitment.

He said: "Last year, we recruited 50,000 students, and the number of recruits exceeded demand ..Jaipur Wealth Management. We still have a long way to go in terms of utilization rate, and we have not yet entered the campus ...We will monitor and adjust this every quarter based on future forecastsKanpur Stock. "

As the second largest IT service company in India, India-Fusheus's comprehensive net profit in September 2023 increased by 3.1%to 6.215 billion rupees.And the continuous pressure of free control expenditure.The company claims that in an uncertain macro environment, random projects and large transformation plans have been significantly reduced.In this case, the company's founder issued a call for 70 hours of work, and I am afraid that they need to be taken seriously.

Professor Professor of Chandrasekhar Sripada of the Indian School of Business warned that despite India's ambitiousness and hope to surpass India by 2075 and become the world's second largest economy, it should not take radical measures to work 70 hours a week, because it will lead to India a one"Burnout" country."We should not care about how people work, but how much work we can create." CHANDRASEKHAR SRIPADA said.

In addition, critics also proposed that productivity depends not only on working hours, but also on various factors such as mental health, gender equality, and work quality.

The Indian Daily directly pointed out the loopholes in the views of Molti and others -they put the burden of raising productivity alone on the shoulders of employees, but the reality is that these companies and companies have insufficient investment in innovation investment.And innovation is the key to increasing productivity.

Goldman Sachs also pointed out in the report of July that although the Indian population structure has certain advantages and may promote it to become the second largest economy, this is not the only driving force for GDP growth. It is very important to innovate and improve the productivity of workers.The labor and capital output of each unit in the Indian economy is required.

Indian economist Mihir Sharma believes that Multi should not worry that young Indians do not work enough time, but should criticize his generation without improving the Indian education system, nor for today's.Workers provide the skills required for competition.His proposal more exposed Indian corporate cultural problems, not the growth of India.

The relationship between Indians and work is uniquely intertwined with spiritual connotation. In addition to professional ethics, most people also regard their work as a pursuit of higher significance.There is a widely circulated saying in India- "work is the worship of God". Each job has a unique spiritual significance, surpassing the simple trading relationship between workers and employers.Many Indians think that suffering is the result of their "karma" in their previous lifeAgra Stock. This is why people can only endure it silently because they have no power to this.

This kind of "suffering" is naturally linked to political undertakings. Only by Murdi and other business giants can make a call of 70 hours a week in the name of "national construction", and "Nine to 5" is regarded asFor a choice that does not meet spiritual pursuits and greater collective interests.

Indian advertising director Divya Khanna describes this situation in the book "The Company We Mainarings: Indian Enterprise Cultural Insight": for Indians, face -to -face communication and management with management in the officeLong -depth and problematic meetings are necessary.Murdie and other companies have long boasted how this attitude has made Indian companies more competitive than the downturn.

More than ten years ago, the Indian Iron and Steel Giant Latan Tata complained to the Times of London that the management of the Yinghe steel manufacturer Corus and the auto manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover did not work hard enough, and they would not stay.At the meeting after 5 pm, the office was empty earlier on Friday.He hinted that the tough management of Tata Iron and Steel will soon "correct".

However, more and more young companies have decided to defend employees' "network rights" and ensure that they ignore the rights and interests of work communication outside the normal working hours.Earlier this year, Indian startups named SoftGrid Computers were locked by locking computers and popping up a message to urge employees to go home to fight against traditional over -work and long -term work culture.There are about 40 employees headquartered in Indo Duor. They said that their sleep quality has improved after get off work, and their work enthusiasm has also improved.

The employees were very shocked when I first saw the "Please go home!" And once the office time was over, and the employee was very shocked.The person in charge of management Mohammad Ali Fanee believes that this is because most people are used to work that they can get off work when they need to be approved."The balance of work and life is a very important thing. We believe that when you are happy with your family, you will have a better performance at work," he said.

At the occasion of this debate, the epidemic has brought people around the world to re -evaluate the relationship between life and work.Many people think that work at home is more efficient, and some people are aware of the importance of health. They must find a balance of work and life.

Experts said that the change of this idea is not only good for employees, but also good for the company.The International Labor Organization conducted a study of 45 companies last year. The results showed that "the employee's departure rate and absence rate of employees have been reduced, and the recruitment situation has been improved and productivity has improved."

Indian entrepreneur and film producer Ronnie Scream Scream wrote on X: "Improve productivity can not only be done by extending working time, but to make people get more through what they do to get more.Good return, such as improvement, positive working environment and fair compensation.

At the same time, the International Labor Organization stated: "Requirement of long -term work may make the gender inequality of the workplace, make it more difficult for women to get promoted in their careers, and exacerbate the gap between gender salary."

Siddharth Warrier is a doctor of neurology and doctor. He wrote in his writing that the reason why the human brain works hard is to obtain personal interests-whether it is growing or economic income.If it is for more money, it is the most reasonable to work harder or longer work.The brain is easy to evaluate, and the return is immediate and there is no risk.Everyone has a price, and at this price, they will work desperately.But if the brain can't see any obvious personal interests, why do you spend a few hours of work?"Maybe high -level personnel need to work 70 hours a week to make the country progress." He wrote.

In the 30 seconds of the tweets of Murdi and the industry leaders, did they think about the future of this country or their descendants can continue to eat dividends?People need to work smarter than work for a longer time.In a exhausted country, people will have no time to improve their skills and no funds for innovation.India should not lose its growth momentum because it is too tired.