Who Works Harder? Indians or Chinese? Should Indians work 70 Hours a Week? | By Prashant Dhawan

谁工作更努力？印度人还是中国人？印度人应该每周工作70小时吗？

Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy's statement on how India's work culture should be has triggered a massive debate on social media. Mr Murthy's statement on low productivity of Indians as compared to the developed economies and that young Indians should work 70 hours every week to make India a developed nation has gathered support as well as criticism.

He also said that in order to compete with countries like China, the country's youngsters must put in extra hours of work as Japan and Germany did after World War II. There are strong views from people on the importance of work-life balance and there are equally strong counter-views.

Mr Murthy's idea was supported by prominent figures such as JSW Chairman Sajjan indal and Ola CEO Bhavish Agarwal.

印孚瑟斯创始人NR Narayana Murthy关于印度工作文化的声明在社交媒体上引发了大规模辩论。Murthy先生关于印度人的生产力与发达经济体相比较低，以及印度年轻人应该每周工作70小时以推动印度成为发达国家的声明，得到了部分人的支持，也得到了部分人的批评。

他还说，为了与中国等国家竞争，印度的年轻人必须像二战后的日本和德国那样加班。人们对工作与生活平衡的重要性有强烈的看法，也有同样强烈的反对意见。

Murthy先生的想法得到了JSW主席Sajjan indal和Ola首席执行官Bhavish Agarwal等知名人士的支持。

以下是印度网民的评论：

P-Pal

I am a 27-year-old guy currently working in Mumbai as a medical billing specialist for US healthcare. I earn around 50,000 rupees a month and live with my family of five. In contrast, my counterparts in the US earn 10 to 15 times more than me, even though they work fewer hours. In India, we work for minimal pay with very little work-life balance. It's extremely challenging and exhausting to survive here. I've had to put my dreams on hold just to make ends meet for my family.

我是一名27岁的男子，目前在孟买工作，是美国医疗保健的医疗账单专家。我每月收入约5万卢比，一家五口住在一起。相比之下，美国同行的收入是我的10到15倍，尽管他们的工作时间更短。

在印度，我们的工作报酬很低，工作与生活几乎没有得到平衡。在这里生存是非常具有挑战性，令人精疲力竭的。为了养家糊口，我不得不搁置我的梦想

rajatsingh-iu3sy

I am an IT Engg. and We have a 5 day work week in my organisation. 2 days off helps me in rejuvenation, self growth and to give sometime to my family and friends . We follow 45 hr work week. It's time to give more efforts in increasing productivity instead of work time.

我是一名IT工程师。我们公司每周工作5天。两天的假期帮助我恢复活力，自我成长，并给我的家人和朋友一些相处时间。我们每周工作45小时。应该是努力提高生产力而不是增加工作时间

RakeshKumar-zw2wb

Instead of increasing work hours per employees, companies should increase their shift and provide more employment opportunities to youths

公司不应该增加员工的工作时间，而应该增加轮班，为年轻人提供更多的就业机会

skuglious

That will increase cost on the companies the bosses are greedy they wont do that

这将增加公司的成本，老板们很贪婪，他们不会这么做的

satyamkeshri1825

I am a senior employee and even I was annoyed by working 9 hr for 6 days, I think what we Indian should learn is to be more productive qualitatively and not focus more on quantity.

我是一名资深员工，即使我对连续6天每天工作9小时感到恼火，不过我认为我们印度人应该学习的是提高生产力，而不是增加工作时间

mprajwalkini

As an employee, I feel that instead of increasing the work hours, just use automation to do the recurring tasks while letting employees work on more productive work. Just this is enough to boost the progress in the work done for the company at lower working hours.

作为一名员工，我觉得与其增加工作时间，不如使用自动化完成重复性任务，同时让员工从事更有效率的工作。仅此一点就足以在较低的工作时间内推动公司的工作进度。

pranaya2800

To reduce housing costs IT companies should be shifted to tier 2 cities and the government should facilitate them.

为了降低住房成本，IT公司应该转移到二级城市，政府应该为他们提供便利。

Aniruddhdwivedi

In my current organization, I am working with native english bosses and I can clearly see difference wether in earning, work life balance, respect and genuine deadlines. Indian bosses coming from Infosys, TCS, Wipro only know to oppress their sub ordinates and expect loyalty, dedication in return which is not possible.

在我目前的公司中，我与以英语为母语的老板们一起工作，我可以清楚地看到收入、工作与生活的平衡、尊重和工作时间方面的差异。而来自印孚瑟斯、塔塔咨询和威普罗的印度老板只知道压迫下属，期望员工忠诚和奉献，这是不可能的。

princejoshi4281

Instead increasing the working hours, we should increase workforce to boost productivity

我们应该增加劳动力来提高生产力，而不是增加工作时间

shashanka-deva

Working for several MNCs for last 9 years as a Software Engineer I can say that for a brain based work or the work where you need to concentrate, the maxmum work time would be 9 hours (including 1 hours lunch) per day and 5 days per week. Remember that is not optimum it is maxmum.
I worked 13 hours/day for 6 days/week for 4 months at a scratch, the result was horrific, without booze/drugs you can't survive. Don't put your mental health/life in risk to make some body more REACH.
To all the young kids- do 9 hours work and go home then do something or save some time to do something.

作为一名软件工程师，我在几家跨国公司工作了9年，可以说，对于脑力工作或你需要集中精力的工作，最长工作时间为每天9小时（包括1小时午餐），每周5天。记住，这不是最佳，而是最多。

我连续4个月每天工作13小时，每周工作6天，结果很可怕，没有酒你就活不下去。不要把你的心理健康和生命置于危险之中

年轻的孩子们，做9个小时的工作后回家，然后做点什么，或者节省一些时间做点其他什么。

shreekantsamdarshi878

Productivity doesn't depend on working hours it depends on skills, learnings , stress free mind , free from tiredness, motivation for good package of salaries, passionate works etc.

生产力不取决于工作时间，它取决于技能、学习、没有压力、没有疲劳、获得高薪的动力、激情工作等。

AdityaKulkarni
I have worked in India as well as US and the thing which you will immediately notice after working in US is that, they don’t have chai nashta break very often. They work dedicatedly in the working hours and leave home early. This is missing in india. People take breaks and productivity goes down. I think people should work 40hrs a week but with less breaks and gossips.

我在印度和美国都工作过，在美国工作后你会立即注意到，他们不经常闲聊。他们在上班时间兢兢业业地工作。这在印度看不到的。在印度，人们喜欢偷懒，生产力下降。我认为人们应该每周工作40小时，但要少休息和闲聊。

maheshkhatri8812

I live outside India for work, and I am a banker. I hold more than 9 years of experience, but last year when I came to India and thought of settling down. I gave interviews at a few places. To my surprise I was offered a smaller package with an annual salary of 6 lakhs. When I asked them why the package so low, the answer surprised me. They said I will be considering fresher in this market and that the company has to invest in training you from scratch. Working hours is not the major issue. The concern is what we get paid. The person will not be motivated to come and work for them.

我在国外工作，我是一名银行家。我有9年多的工作经验，去年我来到印度，想安定下来。我在几个地方接受了采访。令我惊讶的是，我得到了一个年薪60万卢比的Offer。当我问他们为什么工资这么低时，他们的回答让我很惊讶。他们说我在这个市场上是新手，公司必须投资从头开始培训我。工作时间不是主要问题。我们关心的是我们能得到什么报酬。否则不会有动力工作。

mayankgupta7846

I am 25 years old and I am a self employed businessman and for last 7 years I work 7th day of the week without any Sunday holiday, In business season I work 12 to 15 hours per day and in off season I work 10 to 13 hours Because I know that if I give time to my business and focus on my business then more and more my business will grow and when my business grows then I will also progress in life

我今年25岁，是一名个体商户，在过去的7年里，我每周7天工作，没有任何假期。在商业旺季，我每天工作12到15个小时，在淡季，我每天工作10到13个小时

ashusharma3316

rather than increasing working hours, the working professionals must behave responsibly and should perform their tasks effectively.

与其增加工作时间，不如让专业人员认真工作，有效地完成任务。

THEeaternalpeople

To increase productivity we need to focus on better technology,skilled worker and also given incentives which would motivate workers

为了提高生产力，我们需要专注于提高技术、熟练的工人，并制定激励工人的措施

shubhamrajsingh6616
I was an intern at a small firm i worked 6 hours a day , 7 days a week and the stipend was low , people consider unpaid intern as a learning experience . But in US and UK the same work gets much more stipend , its not about work hours , its about productivity and value , and service sector especially IT , is a saturated especially supply and demand . Where supply is much more compared to demand.

I think our workers should get more organized and negotiate better billing practices , they should be billed by hours they work , not a month or yearly wage.

我是一家小公司的实习生，每周7天，每天工作6小时，工资很低，人们认为无薪实习生是一种学习体验。但在美国和英国，同样的工作会得到更多的津贴，这与工作时间无关，与生产力和价值有关，而服务业，尤其是IT，尤其是供需饱和。与需求相比，供应要多得多。

我认为我们的员工应该更有组织性，并协商更好的计费方式，他们应该按工作时间计费，而不是按月或年工资计费。

neetu5257

I think average work hours should be 30-40 hr/week + psychological and motivational session once every weekend. It would help to smart and productive work.

我认为平均工作时间应该是每周30-40小时，每周末一次的心理和激励课程。这有助于提高工作效率

subhammohanty6183

The Work hours of Indian should be shift wise with different employees
I.e 4 hours per employee .
This methods will generate more vacancies & more employee demand and minimum salary should be 30000 per month

印度人的工作时间应该看员工的具体情况

比如，每位员工4小时。

这么一来，将产生更多的职位空缺，对员工需求就更多，最低工资应为每月30000卢比

Koreanvillage7

I'm Nepali and at present working in South Korea. I work 13 to 14 hrs on weekdays and 10 hrs on Saturday. If your working time is aforementioned then the minimum payout even for non-skilled workers is 2.5 lakh INR. Huge amount of difference.

我是尼泊尔人，目前在韩国工作。我工作日工作13到14小时，周六工作10小时。如果您的工作时间类似，那么即使是非技术工人的最低工资也有25万印度卢比。差距很大

official_adarshtiwari

Yes . India's pay scale is very poor .
My dad goes for office from morning 8AM and returns around at 10PM ( around whop 14 hours ) . He works 6 days a week and even on Sundays sometimes . It's really matter of worry .
He is civil engineer and when I asked why he works so much ? He simply replied - that's what his company ask !! If he would work less, he would be expelled

对，印度的工资水平很低。

我爸爸从早上8点开始上班，晚上10点左右回来（大约14个小时）。他每周工作6天，有时甚至星期天也工作。这真的很令人担忧。

他是土木工程师，我问他为什么工作时间这么长？他只是简单地回答——这是他的公司要求的！如果他少工作，就会被开除

devendrasharma-st7qq

I am a creative professional and I know when my company increased work days from 5 to 6 my productivity went drastically down and I am planning to switch now. Also when earlier I used to volunteer to give my extra hours in work without any extra competition because of my own interest in work, now I don’t wanna stay one minute extra in office… their own loss

我是一个工作富有创造力的专业人士，知道我的公司将工作日从5天增加到6天时，我的生产力急剧下降，我现在计划换工作。早些时候，出于我对工作的兴趣，我经常自愿在没有额外竞争的情况下加班，现在我不想在办公室多呆一分钟，这是他们自己的损失

ravenking2458

My sister works for Wipro and she recieves her salary as per 6-8hrs workdays. But sometimes the work hours exceed 11hrs and they still don't get paid for thr overtime.
This is what we call as exploitation. People are employess not corporate slaves.

我姐姐在Wipro工作，她按6-8个工作日领取工资。但有时工作时间超过11小时，他们仍然得不到加班费。

这就是我们所说的剥削。人们是雇员，而不是公司的奴隶。

vishwakarma.daviid

6 or 7 hours should be work hours per day. It'll lead to a good and healthy mental life of people. A good and healthy mental life will increase productivity else they'll be trapped in a web from where most of us won't be able to escape.People are already suffering in the corporate sector due to the excessive amount of work and pressure

每天工作时间6到7小时，可以给人们带来一个良好健康的心理生活。良好健康的心理生活将提高生产力，否则他们将被困在大多数人无法逃离的网络中。由于工作量过大和压力过大，在企业工作的人们已经很痛苦了

hiteshkhadse9360

40hrs per week is ideal working time to balance mental fatigue thus increasing productivity.

每周工作40小时，是平衡精神疲劳并提高生产力的理想工作时间。