Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks
www.theregister.com
Do it for India, says Narayana Murthy, seemingly unaware that China, Japan, and South Korea all have overworking problems
  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    53·
    1 year ago

    Every day a new rich cunt demanding the enslavement of the poor. It’s pretty tiresome.

    • J Lou@mastodon.social
      16·
      1 year ago

      This was more explicit when it was called a master-servant relationship before employer-employee terminology became more common

  • LordR@kbin.social
    35·
    1 year ago

    Compared to the productivity of 30 years ago, we probably work as much as the people back then would have to work in a 70 hour workweek.

    Weirdly enough pay didn’t raise close to productivity…

        • unfreeradical@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          The measure is given as value produced per man hour (I know).

          Nevertheless, the wage gap, housing commodification, and the erasure of the family wage are also extremely relevant issues.

  • TallonMetroid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    Shit like this, as well as the fact that they take a ridiculously hefty cut out of what client companies pay to have positions filled (something like 70/30 or even 90/10), is why the company has an atrocious turnover rate here in the US for anyone who isn’t held hostage by visa issues.

  • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I used to work for a company that outsourced most of its developers to Infosys. I managed a few of them. They were lovely people, treated like shit by my company and by Infosys. I did my best with the little power available to me to give them reasonable projects and maintain reasonable expectations, they said I was the best manager they ever had. After I got laid off, they all quit too and most I think ended up working for Oracle somehow, I don’t know how they’re doing these days but Oracle sounds like it’s probably a fate worse than death, unfortunately.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Well, that was what people in Germany and Japan did after the war. I fail to recognize, though, which devastating war had been lost by India lately so they would have to rebuild the country from scratch.

    • Zeth0s@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year ago

      That’s a boomer myth. They used to work long hours but much relaxed pace. Go and show them the modern schedule and stressors of many modern job, and they are absolutely higher than in the past. Every honest european boomer agrees with this. Millennials europeans are working much more intensively and more effective hours overall, even in Germany

      • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
        31·
        1 year ago

        Boomers used to go home too, and not have a device going off in their pockets every 55 seconds. They were able to unplug. The boss didn’t dare go to the boomers house. Today, your boss doesn’t even blink at calling you at 2am.