Chronic corporate exploitation

Recently, not one but two notable corporate leaders made public remarks about wanting to make Indians work longer hours.

- SHARANYA MANIVANNAN

In November, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy said in a podcast that he recommends a 70-hour workweek for productivity's sake, and reiterated this thought in the press this month, claiming that he himself worked up to 90 hours a week until retirement. Last week, an undated video featured Larsen & Toubro India's chairman SN Subrahmanyan, urging employees to work 90-hour weeks, with two particularly insulting lines: "I regret I am not able to make you work on Sundays" (emphasis mine) and "What do you do sitting at home? How long can you stare at your wife?"