From 60 hours in 2020, Narayana Murthy now suggests a 70-hour work week for youngsters: Where will he go next?

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ET Now in 2020, Murthy said, ‘’Indians would have to learn to live with coronavirus for the next 12-18 months, companies will need to take precautions, and overall, Indians would have to put in more work and more hours to put the economy on a track again.'' Also Read: Narayana Murthy pitches for change in India's work culture, says ‘youngsters should work for 70 hours a week if…’ Notably, the comments by the tech leader then came at a time when the first wave of COVID-19 had gripped the country into an economic slowdown. Murthy explained that to pull the Indian economy out of the slump that had resulted from the COVID-19 lockdown, Indians should vow to work longer and harder.

“We should take a pledge that we will work ten hours a day, six days a week - as against 40 hours a week - for the next 2-3 years so that we can fast-track and grow the economy much faster. On the side of the government, they should appoint a committee of well-respected and accomplished people to advise them on how to remove hassles for these businesses, like during the economic reforms of 1991.

If we did these two, by and large, we will come out of this much stronger," Murthy said in 2020. Three years down the line, the Infosys founder has now added 10 extra hours to the weekly work log target as advice for young Indians, noting that India's work productivity was one of the lowest in the world.

The remarks came during an episode of the first episode of 3one4 Capital’s podcast ‘The Record’ that was aired earlier this week, where Murthy spoke about nation-building, technology, his company Infosys, and several other topics – including his opinion on today’s youth. "Somehow our youth has the habit of taking not-so-desirable habits from the West, and