When some countries are piloting the " four-day working system ", the CEO of an Indian Indian recently suggested on a workplace social platform that young people should work "18 hours" every day for the first 4 or 5 years of their career as a training. The related remarks later caused a strong backlash from a large number of Indian netizens, directly criticizing the founder for promoting a "toxic" work culture.
"BBC" reported on the 31st that Indian men's nursing daily necessities company, founder of "BombayShavingCompany", Mumbai shaving company, Daixipande, posted a message on LinkedIn on the 30th to give advice to newcomers in the workplace. He found that many young people currently advocate the concept of "work lifebalance". Although he recognizes this concept, he also emphasizes that it is "too early" for young people.
He believes that no matter what position you are, newcomers who are new to the workplace should regard their work as a belief. Instead of complaining, it is better to accept these training that can make people grow. It also means that these work experiences built in the early stages of career development are conducive to their next career.
Daixi Pande 's remarks immediately aroused criticism from netizens, emphasizing that in today's when large-scale layoffs of first-time companies in India have become normalized, Daixi Pande is defending this "harmful" workplace culture. Many netizens also pointed out that it is 2022, not the industrial revolution period, and used the overtime culture to exert example, calling on everyone who advocates this workplace culture to learn from the experience of sudden death of employees caused by long-term work in Japan .
" LinkedIn Labor Confidence Index" released in 2020 pointed out that in India , 2 people feel the increase in stress and anxiety in every 5 professional staff.
Some netizens vowed to never buy all the products of the company again. This is because the interests and operations of the company are obviously built under such a bad work culture. Regarding the suggestions of Dai Xipande , netizens emphasized that this behavior has completely ignored the living conditions, which seems that in life, except that "working hard" is the only way to succeed, ordinary is a mistake, and frankly admit that such a life is meaningless.
In addition to this, some netizens directly pointed out that Dai Xipande blindly encourages employees to work for 18 hours, but they did not talk about whether they would pay overtime pay.
However, some netizens also agreed with the founder's idea, and took the world's richest man and work crazy Elon Musk (Elon Musk ) as an example, saying that people admire Elon Musk 's idea is because his hard work has been reflected in his property, but the founders and CEOs of these companies do not actually work 8 to 9 hours like ordinary employees, but also learn other skills, complete projects and work hard to build a company in the rest of the time.
After the remarks of Dai Xipande caused controversy, he added in the post that it seems that many people hate working for 18 hours, "This is the representation of the difficulty of getting from extravagance to frugality." , warmly welcome any netizens who have doubts about the company's workplace culture to come and communicate with the company's employees.
"BBC" pointed out that before Dai Xipande , co-founder of the Indian information technology service exporter software giant "Infosys", Murthy (Narayana Murthy), also made similar controversial remarks when the epidemic broke out in 2020. At that time, Murti suggested that Indian people should work no less than 64 hours a week in the next 2 to 3 years to make up for the impact of the economic downturn caused by the epidemic prevention and control measures. It is calculated that it is equivalent to working at least 12 hours a day every Friday.
