Labor Day: Narayana Murthy pulls out a Jack Ma; says Indians must work 10 hours a day now

Indians need to work longer and longer hours to get the economy back on track, Narayana Murthy said. (File photo)

Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy achieved a Jack Ma days before Labor Day and said Indians must work 60 hours a week for the next 2-3 years to overcome the economic recession caused by the coronavirus blockade. Indians need to spend more work and more hours to get the economy back on track, Narayana Murthy told ET Now in an interview recently. “We should make a commitment that we will work ten hours a day, six days a week, compared to 40 hours a week, for the next 2-3 years so that we can accelerate and grow the economy much faster,” he said. said. Previously, Alibaba’s famous fame Jack Ma had also said something similar and had asked his Chinese counterparts to work daily from 9 a.m. at 9 p.m.

Under current standards, workers You may be asked to work eight hours a day, six days a week, which is equivalent to 48 hours of work in a week.

Speaking about the work-from-home trend that arose due to the shutdown, Narayana Murthy said the ultimate goal for now is to improve productivity, and therefore companies must define their productivity standards. He said that all industries, from finance to information technology, should ask every employee to achieve that standard of productivity to make work from home.

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The Infosys co-founder also said the government must act on many fronts to help people overcome the jail blow. “We have not awarded grants or provisional finance to our start-up companies or medium-sized companies and workers in these companies as several developed countries have,” he told the news channel this week. However, the government is expected to publish a financial aid package that will take MSMEs’ problems into account also after the first package, which focused on workers, employees and women.