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Infosys founder defends call for 70-hour workweeks, says he "doesn't believe in a work/life balance"


In October 2023, Murthy suggested that young people work twelve-hour days for the "next 20 years, 50 years, whatever it is," out of a sense of duty...

A hot potato: Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy is once again facing criticism for talking about the benefits of working every hour that you're awake. Murthy, who is the father-in-law of former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, highlighted post-WW2 Japan and Germany as shining examples of hard work and high productivity. In August, Infosys made headlines for allegedly stringing along thousands of recent engineering graduates for years after extending job offers and making them go through weeks of unpaid training.

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