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Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has once again called for longer working weeks has returned, this time with an emphasis on schedules like the 996-pattern used in parts of China.

Murthy's comments revive a debate which began in 2024, when he argued that Indian employees should work 70 hours a week.

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It's not just saturday morning cartoon villain evil.

It's also incredibly fucking stupid.

Anything that you get better outcomes from by making people work longer, like assembly lines, can be done better by robots anyway, and of course you as capital owner don't have to live life after your dominant hand gets crushed and amputated.

Anything that isn't pure rote work, you get better results when people are not overworked and spending thirty hours a week sticking fucking pencils in your acoustic ceiling because nobody's fucking brain works that long and hard.

[-] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

Some billionaires are saying shorter work weeks be used of AI, some are saying longer.

If this just a way for us to be “grateful” for things to remain the same?

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 0 points 4 months ago

It’ll be longer. AI will be there to accelerate the cadence, turning “knowledge workers” from artisans who have the relative luxury of solving problems autonomously at their workstations intro assembly-line labour who hurriedly sling prompts and patch up botshit.

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

Rotshit, botshit, dirty old twot

[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Ok I'll do 70 hour weeks as long as it promises I am also a billionaire by retirement. So that'll be a salary of 21 million a year please.

[-] Lon3star@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Exactly, I'll work my ass off for a year or two, but then I'm out

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

You won’t be out when your rent is a million per month and groceries are 100k.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Another bag of shit that believes in China's 9-9-6 BS so he can float on a yacht. Stay in India loser!

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And yes, he's ragebaiting.

Don't even know if I'm giving him too much credit here; maybe he is literally dumb enough to advocate for modern slavery.

[-] palmtrees2309@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

MoFo wants 80 hour work week and pays 4,353 USD per year to Indian CS graduates.

[-] oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

Fuck that! We should be aiming for 21-28 hours being the normal length of the employed week for everyone everywhere, and it not being necessary to work any more than that unless you want to for yourself. We can't accelerate forever, we need to do less work hours and have good quality of life, otherwise what's even the point of technology?

[-] MalMen@masto.pt 1 points 4 months ago

@oftenawake @throws_lemy starting with 4 working days per week would be an massive improvement already

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Arguably we are already there. Depends how much you want to yourself. My house? No comrade, our house.

Share a house and you can do very little work. You could take it pretty far too. Think of those capsule hotels, could fit loads of capsules in my current bedroom even if you want to have your own capsule - sharing can further increase population. Less than 20 hours of work a month for static fees (mortgage, tax) per person. Food is about 4 hours of work a month. Heating wont change, though you will use more hot water for washing, probably 2-5 hours of work for energy and water.

All essentials covered, less than 30 hours of work a month required per person. Basing this on my expenses in the UK and minimum wage.

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

that's the sound of player two inserting coin

[-] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

How long until a CEO openly argues for slavery?

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

It's called prison labor.

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

He should work himself to death alone and leave us with a better world

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi

Overwork people until they die/kill themselves, great idea, what could go wrong. Really, I want to see homeboy do a month of whatever his lowest employee does with that schedule and THEN say he's still for it. Bet he'll be real fuckin' quiet.

[-] beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 4 months ago

LOL that fuck has like 10 years to live at most.

[-] coffee_nutcase207@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

People like this need to be named and shamed.

[-] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Iceland made theor 4 day workweek experiment permanent...because it was actually more productive.

They don't even want all the money, they just want us to suffer

[-] shirro@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You could replace most management people with a rack of GPUs and nobody would notice. Mostly they are a very unimaginative lot parroting the same misguided group think that devalues the employees that create all their companies value. Infosys is a consulting company. They don't make anything or own valuable IP. They pimp out Indian labour to undercut the labour rates and conditions in developed countries which already makes them a shitload of profit.

You would think with increasing options to Indian professionals, their recruitment people would be shitting bricks trying to hire talent with this bullshit out there but they have probably sacked them as well. Though, if I wasn't poor I would probably say all sorts of shit to pump share prices and cash out before the AI bubble bursts.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Well, thank you for the warning. So you are saying people should avoid working for you at any cost.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

I am not an advocate of slavery generally speaking but I do think that it is a just and righteous thing to enslave someone like this and to use them for backbreaking labour for 20 hours per day.

Like. Make it pointless too. Dig this hole. Fill that hole. Dig it again.

Feed them stuff you find in dumpsters. Beat them if their hole digging is going to slow. Test cosmetics on them. Sell them to be used for sex.

That seems right to me.

[-] Pika@rekabu.ru 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nah, just...make them work regular hours for a pay of an ordinary employee. They could take extra hours to earn more and demonstrate to everyone how to "work hard and earn big". This will be cruelest punishment they can get.

Oh, and put them on a KPI and control their work productivity.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 0 points 4 months ago

You're using the word "slavery" rhetorically, more or less, but in the eyes of a Sociopathic Oligarch, we are already living on literal slave wages. They couldn't imagine living on the average annual income in this country, but they expect us to, and work harder on top of it.

They would pay us nothing, like the olden days, but then they'd have to cover our food and housing, and that would cost them more. So they pay us just barely enough to keep us from revolting.

We are already slaves.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No I'm not.

I mean we literally force people like this into irons and force them to work under threat of corporal punishment.

There's what, maybe 10, 20,000 people like this the world over?

It would be a one time thing. If they managed to have kids before they died from exhaustion or the unforeseen results of pharmaceutical experiments their children would be given good homes and loving adoptive parents, so we didn't risk reviving the institution of slavery. It would be a one time thing. Justice.

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