70 hours work per week for youngsters ...I am not agreeable
By vanny
@vandana7 (100618)
India
October 31, 2023 1:33am CST
I agree there are times in our lives we feel extremely passionate about an idea, and can devote all our energies to what is on our minds. Usually, that is rather innovative and not something that others have any clue about. But as far as I understand, such passion is sporadic. It does not last a lifetime, and it cannot be churned out when ordered. It needs to come from within. And the important aspect is ...the idea is already in the mind of the person, it merely needs to be executed or implemented. Effectively, the passion is towards a known goal.
Recently, a very eminent Indian suggested 70 hours work per week for youngsters in the country.
His reasons to could be to make the software industry competitive and enable it to retain market share if not expand it.
I do understand those business concerns, and I do understand the pressures that investors impose on the managements of various businesses.
Lets see, 10 hours a day the guy gonna work. Then 1 hour for breakfast, dinner, bath, pee, and poop, dressing up. 1 hour for traveling. 8 hours for sleeping. That leaves the poor miserable guy just 4 hours to look after his kids, his house, his shopping, his retirement, his parents, his social life. No parties. No movies. No television matches, no exercises, Jesus...what are we asking?
I have no kids. Nor in-laws. So its been easy for me to follow that route. I am willing to state openly that any woman who has in-laws cannot manage 70 hours work. Mind would be too pre-occupied with time table to be innovative. My goal was very clear in my mind, so I could focus my energies there. With kids and in-laws and husband...I would never manage it.
Soon burnouts will happen. Depressions. Health issues. Tell me sitting 10 hours in front of the laptop...will it not lead to peripheral arterial disease?
We will kill our youngsters should we choose to implement such things....
They would want to stop working altogether...we will have a huge problem, because they would not be equipped to do any other type of work.
If they are not working, there are no taxes. Right?
As it is 23 percent of youth in the country is unemployed. Unemployed youth means more crimes and mental health issues.
I would instead bring down employee cost, and use more persons at cheaper cost than try to extract more from a single person thinking that by paying him more, I can get more out of him.
Definitely, people at higher levels would have to take a cut on their salaries or incentives.
Increasing working hours?
Not a good idea.
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@vandana7 (100618)
• India
31 Oct 23
@porwest Me too. I worked hard just to see that I would have enough for my retirement and of course food on my table. We Indians are also extremely obsessed with owning a home. That also mattered. Somehow, in that era, jobs were not as many so we clung to the jobs we had, desperately. Worked hard. Subsequently software and offshore jobs came, but by then, the required framework was over, and any job would have been sufficient for reaching my goal. I was also older and slower to adapt to new technologies.
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@wolfgirl569 (108301)
• Marion, Ohio
31 Oct 23
Hiring more would be better. But it doesn't happen here either. The CEOs don't want to give up their outrageous salaries
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@vandana7 (100618)
• India
31 Oct 23
The CEO's are merely wining and dining. They are not pulling their weight. But to be fair, it is not merely the CEOs. The cut throat competition coupled with attrition rates prompts companies to offer more lest they fail to complete the contract. Once the perk or pay packet is offered, they cannot easily bring down the pay scale for the next batch of recruits.
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@aninditasen (16501)
• Raurkela, India
31 Oct 23
70 hours work a week has another hazard. The person will inevitably fall sick as the balance between the physical and mental work gets hampered and that's the reason youngsters today are suffering from high BP, stroke, and heart attack.
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@aninditasen (16501)
• Raurkela, India
1 Nov 23
@vandana7 Today people have gone selfish. Narayan Murthy wants profit and publicity. One of my friends daughter joined Infosys but had to resign within a year because of over pressure of work.
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@Daljinder (23236)
• Bangalore, India
23 Nov 23
He is facing flak justifiably. Our home companies anyway run their employees rugged. There is no set time at all. I have seen my husband work till 11 pm and still wake up at 2 am for work. Mind you, the company has never and will never put it under overtime and pay for these extra hours.
Since he has joined the US company, he works in shifts of either 7:30 am to 4:30 pm or 8:30 am to 5:30 pm. There is not a single office call after hours are over.
This suggestion of 70 hours a week becomes even more ridiculous when you live in a city like Bengaluru. You must be familiar with the traffic here. It's nightmarish. Just last month alone it took 4 hours for his colleagues to reach home from the office and hence, the managers informed everyone to work from home.
I don't know in which world he is living. 
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@LindaOHio (181931)
• United States
31 Oct 23
There would definitely be a lot of burnouts. They would be better off hiring more people to work those extra hours. Hope you are having a good day, Vanny!!!
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@vandana7 (100618)
• India
3 Nov 23
@LindaOHio Hugs Linda. :) Starting with Pony's song line up today...imagine...he takes so long to send me pictures...he needs to be spanked.
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