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Also Read |India Inc divided as Narayana Murthy calls for 70 hour work week; Bhavish Aggarwal, Ronnie Screwvala weigh in It was his parents who taught him that working hard was the only way to escape poverty. According to him, this is when one gets the most productivity from each hour, the report further added. "During my entire 40-plus years of professional life, I worked 70 hours a week," he reiterated.

NR Narayana Murthy doesn't seem perturbed by the kerfuffle he sparked by suggesting recently that youngsters ought to work 70 hours a week to boost productivity and enhance India's competitiveness. He himself had put in the hours when setting up Infosys in 1981, said Murthy, 77.

Lok Sabha MPs asked the Narendra Modi government whether it is evaluating the suggestion posed by the Infosys co-founder. Narayana Murthy's 70-hpour work week had triggered debates and met with brick-bats and flowers, wherein several business owners agreed with the need for increased productivity and some debated with adequate compensation.

Vinod Khosla, the first investor in OpenAI and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has now weighed in on Narayan Murthy's controversial comments urging young people to work 70 hours a week to boost India's labour productivity. In a Q&A session, Khosla noted that people who felt offended by Murthy's comments "need mental therapy" and urged them to "learn to toughen up". Also Read: Want Sam Altman back at OpenAI, will back his next venture, says Vinod Khosla In reply to a post on X (formerly Twitter), Khosla wrote, "For people who "felt attacked" by this they need mental health therapy.

Vinod Khosla weighed into the debate kicked off by Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy’s comments that young people should work 70-hour weeks, saying that people need not be so sensitive to the remark. ‘Toughen up’

Bengaluru Tech Summit 2023’, said Priyank Kharge, Karnataka’s minister for information technology, on Saturday. The summit, with the theme 'Breaking Boundaries’, will have more than 75 sessions, more than 400 speakers, 350 startups, 600 exhibitors, and 20,000 business attendees.

Appario Retail, the largest seller on Amazon India, is scripting a change of plans for its future on the ecommerce platform, multiple people aware of the development told ET. Amazon and Patni Group, joint venture partners of Appario’s parent firm Frontizo, had in October last year announced plans to shut the seller entity within a year. But it is unlikely to stop selling on Amazon India as it continues to work closely with brands and sellers and has more than a month of forward inventory in its warehouses, people cited above said.

Aequs has bagged a 10-year contract to make parts for Airbus’ A320, A330neo and A350 aircrafts. Under the terms of the agreement, Aequs will make detailed parts, and parts with bench assembly for wings, fuselage, and pylons for Airbus’ including its popular single-aisle family of aircraft over the period of the contract. Aravind Melligeri, Chairman of Aequs, said, “This contract is a significant moment in Aequs' journey with Airbus.

₹15,000 per year to all women of the state if Congress returns to power. The announcement was made ahead of the second phase of the state assembly elections. "On the occasion of Diwali, I want to announce that, if Congress forms govt again in Chhattisgarh, we will launch 'Chhattisgarh Griha Lakshmi Yojana' and will give ₹15,000 per year to all mothers and sisters," said Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel.

Murthy had said productivity has to rise for the country to grow. “So, therefore, my request is that our youngsters must say, ‘This is my country. I’d like to work 70 hours a week’,” he had said.

APJ Abdul Kalam Past entered the father-in-law of the prime minister of Britain, a country whose industriousness that led to the Industrial Revolution ultimately gave way to a Catholic work ethic in entities like Boris 'Parta-a-ay!' Johnson. NR Narayana Murthy, nice man and one of the seven Infosages, publicly 'requested' that 'our youngsters must say, 'This is my country.

Truecaller's CEO Alan Mamedi met Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy and spent some quality time taking to him. Mamedi shared a post on Friday capturing the experience. He described Murthy as an «incredibly humble person».

70-hour work week could raise compliance issues as it violates labour laws, a senior official of staffing company TeamLease said on Friday. «If somebody is spending 70 hours (in office), they are going beyond 9 hours. There is a fundamental disconnect, when you are an employee labour law allows you to work 9 hours,» Vice President and Business Head for TeamLease Degree Apprenticeship Dhriti Prasanna Mahanta said. Former Infosys CEO N R Narayana Murthy had recently advocated for a 70-hour work week, drawing reactions from across the spectrum.

Narayana Murthy’s 70-hour work week remark: 7 ways to design a “rich" life on your terms The survey, conducted on 30,000 employees in 30 countries around the world, reported positive overall holistic health at workplaces. While Japan stood at the bottom in a global ranking of employees’ well-being, measured by assessing physical, mental, social, and spiritual health at 25%, Turkey was highest at 78%, followed by 76% for India and 75% for China.

Narayana Murthy’s 70-hour work week remark: 7 ways to design a “rich" life on your terms Further sharing the examples of some of the legends from different industries such as Virat Kohli, Ratan Tata, Amitabh Bachchan, and late former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam, Shetty said all such people accomplished great heights in their respective careers by pushing themselves beyond limits others had set for them. By talking about a 70-hour work week, Murthy was trying to convey that young adults should spend their earliest years pushing their boundaries, Shetty added.

Mukesh Bansal, sharing his two cents on the ongoing 70-hour week debate for corporate India, has said that companies demanding long hours also need to create proportional upside. The CureFit founder categorically stated that it is not fair for companies to «demand 70 hours of work at 40 hours salary.» Bansal took to LinkedIn on Tuesday to share his views on the ongoing debate fuelled by Narayana Murthy's suggestion that the millennial workforce in India needs to go the extra mile in order to help nation-building.

Narayana Murthy recently talked about how youngsters must work 70 hours a week to uplift India. He cited how a few countries after World War II worked longer hours to grow faster. While this comment is open to interpretation, people are divided.

Shark Tank panellist Namita Thapar has entered the debate on working 70 hours per week. Thapar took to Twitter to express her concerns about the impact of such long working hours on family time.

Suniel Shetty has now weighed in on the ongoing debate around Narayana Murthy's suggestion that a 70-hour-week in corporate India can help the country in the long run. The 62-year-old is the latest to join the chorus of 70-hour-week work schedule, after the techpreneur's exhortation has left corporate India split down the middle. Shetty on Tuesday took to LinkedIn to post his take on the issue. In a long update, he cited the example of Amitabh Bachchan, Abdul Kalam, Virat Kohli and Ratan Tata and how these figures achieved exemplary success in their respective fields by going the extra mile. «Do we really think any of these individuals got to where they did in life, by playing within their comfort zones? Do we really think any of these individuals spent the early years of their careers worrying about whether they were striking the right balance between work & life?»

Narayana Murthy, the co-founder of Infosys, suggested that India's workforce should engage in a 70 hour work week, earning brickbats from many on social media. Notably, the proposal also found many taker in the likes of Ola Co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal, former board member of Infosys Mohandas Pai, and JSW Group chairman Sajjan Jindal.

ALSO READ: Narayana Murthy pitches for change in India's work culture, says ‘youngsters should work for 70 hours a week if…’ Meanwhile, Marico Group Chairman Harsh Mariwala has differed with Narayana Murthy's '70-hour work week' suggestion and backed the idea of throwing challenges to the youngsters to boost growth and learning. Taking to X, he wrote, "Undeniably, hard work is the backbone of success, but it is not about the hours clocked in.