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    Infosys-Gründer verteidigt Forderung nach 70-Stunden-Woche und sagt, er glaube „nicht an eine Work-Life-Balance“


    Infosys-Gründer verteidigt Forderung nach 70-Stunden-Woche und sagt, er glaube „nicht an eine Work-Life-Balance“

    https://www.techspot.com/news/105618-infosys-founder-defends-call-70-hours-workweeks-doesnt.html

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    1. nobodyspecial767r on

      These are the types of people who would be 100% into slavery being made legal again.

    4. CoryExelby on

      Just in case Infosys hadn’t already cemented their placement as an horrible employer

    6. Odysseyan on

      He loves work so much, never really spent time with his family, hates weekends and yet he retired?
      Whats wrong Murthy? Don’t enjoy working until you die anymore?

    7. Shadowslave604 on

      as someone who did 50 hour weeks for 20 years and then ended up in hospital with health issues i do not suggest it. i only saw my kids one day a week and only saw my wife at bed time. seriously not worth it and i now enjoy that extra time at home.

    8. jupfold on

      It’s not surprisingly to see guys like this have this type of attitude.

      As someone who’s worked blue collar jobs, white collar jobs and management positions, I know the difference between a solid 12 hour work day and what this guy does.

      First off, this guy is obviously not doing manual, physical labor. He would probably collapse and die.

      Secondly, here are some of the details of this guys job. Because the type of work people in his leadership position do, is not the typical white collar worker “desk job”:

      * His job consists of sitting on a comfy couch, or club chair, while aides and executives come to him with questions.
      * Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks are catered – no meal prep at home.
      * A solid portion of this guys 12 hour work day is at home, on a speaker phone while watching the business news channel.
      * The guy is not hunched over a computer, writing code or filling out the general ledger.

      Obviously this guy is incentivized to reduce his cost inputs at our expense. Also, not surprised to see he idolizes India’s MAGA-Modi.

    10. Toilet_Rim_Tim on

      I don’t give a rats ass what he wants, his thoughts & opinions mean nothing to me. He wants to work 70+ hrs/ week, have @ it. I’m not.

    11. ThreeHourRiverMan on

      Fuck him.  One good thing about being in tech is I have an easy to maintain list of companies I’d never work for. The scumbags usually don’t even try to hide it. 

    12. albeva on

      Why stop at 70? Let’s make a 112-hour workweek the norm! And let’s employ people with whips to “motivate” anyone slacking off. We should also forget paying people for their labour; people should be grateful to toil for their overlords.

    13. manolid on

      >“I have not changed my view; I will take this with me to my grave,” he asserted .

      The grave is exactly where that kind of thinking belongs.

    14. CaravelClerihew on

      My mum’s boss made them go back to the office as soon as legally possible. Turns out, he hated working from home because he hated being at home with his wife.

      Maybe this idiot hates his family too.

    16. jBlairTech on

      Interesting. I could be incentivized to “work” extra hours if, like him, “work” consisted of posting bullshit on LinkedIn, watching Bloomberg, and “making decisions” means taking a phone call to say “do what you think is best”, all while making millions a year. 

      Of course, that’s not what he means. He wants people standing 10+ hours a day with no ergonomics or hunched over a computer desk, with no breaks, all to make him more money. Fuck that guy.

    18. TurboLover427 on

      The Indians must rebel against such slave drivers. The problem of my generation is that we are far too obedient.

    19. ReefHound on

      “I have not changed my view; I will take this with me to my grave,” he asserted .

      The sooner the better.

    20. asphias on

      We’re richer than ever before in the history of the human race. We can cross oceans in hours, our communication is instantaneous, our stores are overflowing with food.

      We could be living plenty fullfilling lives while spending time with our families, making friends, raising our kids.

      You must be terribly maladapted to look at such wealth and think “i need to hoard more for myself while never having the time to enjoy any of it”.

    23. mck-_- on

      He sounds like a miserable old sod. When he dies his workmates will roll him out of the way and someone else will be doing his work in a week. Even the boss is immediately replaceable.

    24. east-west-parabola on

      Is this the kind of company culture Infosys clients want to work with?

      Infosys clients are complicit in facilitating digital slave labor.

    25. TypicalDumbRedditGuy on

      Yeah hv fun living while working 11 hours and 40 minutes 6 days a week. I think I’d genuinely rather be homeless than do that. 

    27. alexwoodgarbage on

      Work smarter, not harder is completely lost in these leaders, and most definitely infosys.

      1. More hours doesn’t make the work better, in fact it makes output more prone to errors and inefficiencies.

      2. This is being said with the intent to maximize billable hours from his staff and reducing hourly wages over time (from 40 to 70 for the same pay eventually)

      If you’ve worked with infosys you’ll know their output doesn’t have a very good reputation. They’re cheap, but you get what you pay for. Huge reparation programs have been won by competing firms to repair and (re)launch what Infosys wasn’t able to.

    28. Zyrinj on

      Get ready for more billionaires to come out with this mindset and potential repeals of worker protection laws.

    29. dark1on50 on

      Awful company. The company I work for uses Infosys to outsource over 40% of our development and production support. The work they produce is terrible, and most of the time has to be partially redone by full time resources. They usually hire people straight out of school with little to no experience and work them to the bone.

    30. Stilgar314 on

      All these billionaires tend to mistake being busy with working. I don’t think they have really worked a single day in their lives.

    33. lurid_dream on

      He should have his kids and grandkids work 70 hour jobs in Infosys as an example.

      He worked his ass off since it’s his company, don’t expect employees to do the same for the peanuts you pay them.

      Every rich person mindset = we need slaves and not employees.

    34. precious_apple on

      These people are openly threatening and attacking us. There are a hell of a lot more of us than them.

    35. redvelvetcake42 on

      So his entire life is nothing but work and without it he’d die. He sounds like most old rich guys who only know their single speciality and think the way they do everything is the only way that works. Classic “works for me so it works entirely” mentality that ends companies.

    38. ThisizLeon on

      People like him are soulless and are barely even human at this point, i pity him.

    39. abgry_krakow87 on

      Like any good leader, he’ll spend all his time at the office, working, right? He should put a sign above his workplace’s entrance saying “working makes you free” to help motivate his… workers.

    40. bricktopsdags on

      There’s Ratan Tata, ran multiple companies, also prioritized nations development and whose demise brought sadness to the entire country and then there is this asshole, who people are wishing passed away sooner. Man! What a difference in leadership.

      Has Infosys produced any open source projects that are ground breaking? Or even widely used? Or do they even have a policy that encourages employees to contribute to open source projects?

    41. deadgirlrevvy on

      Fuck that guy.  I work to live. Not live to work.  Work is means to an end, not the goal.

    43. symewinston on

      Good, let’s see him do that as an Amazon driver or running a cash register for 70 hours per week. Selfish asshole.

    44. Alive_Distribution61 on

      Man doesn’t believe in a work life balance for his employees. There, fixed the title

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