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India Today
|February 24, 2025
As stress impacts more than half the workforce and every fourth employee fails to strike work-life balance, more and more back shorter work weeks
Work-life balance has been a topic of intense debate in India for the past year. More recently, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) chairman S.N. Subrahmanyan endorsed a 90-hour work week, suggesting employees should also pitch in on Sundays. This came months after the tragic death of 26-year-old Anna Sebastian Perayil, an employee at Ernst & Young's member firm office in Pune, brought workplace stress into sharp focus. Earlier, Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy's proposal for 70-hour work weeks had already stirred controversy.
This story is from the February 24, 2025 edition of India Today.
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