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Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy’s remark that youngsters in India should work 70 hours a week for the country’s progress has sparked a debate with many entrepreneurs also weighing in.
While Ola Cabs co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal endorsed Murthy’s views, Bharat Pe CEO Ashneer Grover said, “Work is still being measured in ‘hours’ than ‘outcome’.” Now, Edelweiss Mutual Fund CEO and MD Radhika Gupta has said how Indian women have been “working more than 70 hours a week to build India”.
“Between offices and homes, many Indian women have been working many more than seventy hour weeks to build India (through our work) and the next generation of Indians (our children). For years and decades. With a smile, and without a demand for overtime. Funnily, no one has debated about us on Twitter,” Gupta wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
“Indian women’s tireless dedication deserves recognition,” an X user commented. “This is the thing which i love about Indian women after working 6-8 hours in workplace to manage family with full dedication,” said another. “Thank you Ma’m for speaking on behalf of all of us hard working mothers..!!” wrote a third.
Anupam Mittal, founder of Shaadi.com, shared a photo of him standing with his fellow judges of Shark Tank India. “After all these years, still working 70 hour weeks,” he wrote.
Murthy made the remarks during a conversation with former Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai on the first episode of 3one4 Capital’s podcast “The Record”. Murthy said India’s work productivity was among the lowest in the world and that in order to compete with countries like China, the country’s youngsters must put in extra hours of work–as Japan and Germany did after World War II.
