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Naukri.com, "No Work-Life Balance In Startups" Leader Supports Narayana Murthy
By - 16 Jan 2024 05:42 PM
Influential people from a variety of sectors have debated Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy's proposal for a 70-hour work week as a means of improving India's overall productivity at work. Naukri.com chairman Sanjeev Bikhchandani has now joined the group of people who support Mr. Murthy's idea.
"At 5 p.m., you cannot say, 'Ab ho gaya,' which means 'now I am done.'" 'Saturday, Sunday main kaam nahi karta' [I don't work on weekends] is not acceptable. If you want to succeed, "Apko karna padega [you will have to]," Mr. Bikhchandani stated on the Indian Silicon Valley Podcast.
Ek kamyab entrepreneur dikha do [show me one successful entrepreneur] who did not have this work ethic and succeeded in the first five to ten years." It doesn't take place.In his early years as a startup founder, he stressed that it's usually difficult to strike a work-life balance. "Ask 'tune kitni mehnat ki' [how hard have you worked?] of any successful Indian entrepreneur today. "Maine bahot mehnat ki" means "I have worked very hard." Because to make something work in India you got to put in the hours. The truth is if you're doing a startup, there is no work-life balance. There's only work-life integration. You live for your work for the first few years."As Mr. Bikhchandani clarified, "Religion is not seventy hours a week. The idea, I believe, was to be ready to work as hard as necessary—which might be a lot harder than you're working now. Aapko mehnat karni padegi [you will have to work hard]. Hopefully, you won't mind doing it, because you want to build that startup. This is not a lecture, this is reality,” he added.
