If people wanna work at their convenience, what's the issue? Bangalore's traffic is already tragic, let people work and commute at their own time at least.

Application Engineer

How else can we finish all the tasks 🤷🏽‍♂️

Product Designer

How else can you prove your passion to the work?. Timely delivery is not considered as committed. 
 Expectations of WLB is crime.

Consultant

Then working from 912 in the night, i mean what’s the point ?

Then working from 9-12 in the night, i mean what’s the point ?

Why is everyone working 9-5. Going home.

Software Engineer

Why is everyone working 9-5. Going home.- Grapevine

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I've had the fortune of having worked in 3 countries so far. India is by far the most exciting place to be in 2024.
But there's something about our work ethic that just concerns me. In both white and blue collar.

In most other countries, I've observed people strictly sticking to the 9 to 5, working diligently in those hours - not wasting too much time on chai sutta breaks, instagram browsing, gupshup etc.

They work for 8 hours, then leave. And think about work directly the next day.

In India, most of us spend more hours - but very obviously very few of those hours are productive. In fact, I lately feel that too many people around me are doing even 2-3 hours of work on a good day.

We end up just staying around, passing time, and then go back home. When we could have achieved so much more.

Work ethic has fallen. Work hours have gone up.

We need to be more mindful of our actions, we need to work well at work, and then do well at home.

I think it's a function of being over populated. There are 1.5-2 people doing what 1 person should be doing, hence this effect.

Needs to be fixed, it's the sign of a major problem in the workforce. Thoughts?

Disguised unemployment in India - It's all around us :/

We don't end up staying long hours because we need to. But because we have to, so that the manager doesn't feel like we leave the office by "half day".  
  Also, they have a leverage that they can shut their laptops at 5 and nobody will reach out to them. But here in India, managers do reach out for escalations, or make us attend lat evening calls because it's afternoon in Europe or morning in NA. The people sitting in Europe or NA are not made to wake up early or attend night calls to accommodate us during our actual 9-5.  
  People also chit chat etc. bcz they know for sure that they have to sit for long hours..so they need to take small breaks in the day. No one has the capacity to work 10-11 hrs without any breaks.  
  Here it would never be possible to have such a strict 9-5.

Customer Success

Corporate Strategist

Hi Folks, has making a 9hour workday become a standard practice in all offices? 

This is sucha shitty role.. why can we just finish our work n leave? Why do we have to stay n complete 9hrs as it’s some school.

Your take on 9hours working mandatory ?

Category Marketing

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

How many of you actually only work 9-5? Do you get paid for overtime? Is Indian corporate culture disconnected from the 40-hour workweek belief?

Is 9-5 a myth in India?

Total disconnect... most of us do not work 40Hrs a week -every week.. sometimes its 60hrs some times its 20.. but the main requirement is we need to pretend to be busy. That's what's defines a hard worker in our country. 
productivity and efficiency gayi baad mein.... if you  finish your current work, you  need to find the next. or you can continue the current work for as long as possible.

Copywriter

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I know some companies that have mandated 9-6, which in itself is an insane, on top of that you add 30min to 2hrs for commute outside of work hours.

But now companies want have started extending it to 9-7, without any extra benefits 💀

Is this the new norm?

When did 9-5 become 9-7 ? 👀💀

I think it’s not the work that I am bored of but the fact that corporate doesn’t allow you personal time and space. My timings have always been 10 to 8 or 11 to 9 and it’s next to impossible to get a project that has 9 to 6ish. How are people managing this after marriage and kids? Where is the time to focus on your personal goals and quality time for your family? Or do we target to achieve FIRE? But if that means slogging in the present, how is it useful to compromise your present altogether. Maybe this is just a rant, but I am fed up. I need my evenings now. I need my evenings to be free and not full of “So I’m gonna start presenting now”, “can someone please take the MoMs” bs

Is anyone else just done with Corporate? I have been into Consulting, doing pretty well and everything but I think I have reached that saturaton point. 8i

Senior Consultant

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I have an open question guys!

Is working 9-5 really living? No, the process of working itself is life. I want to write a lot of things, but whenever I start to express my thoughts in text, I get stuck. It's the same with my life—I want to do many things, but I'm not able to. Have I become lazy? When will I get tired of spending so much time watching web series and movies? Will they be worth anything in the end? No! So why am I not doing anything productive?

An open Question...

Customer Service

So I am working at a startup for around a year now. Everyday I see, it feels, what am I really doing? Where is the life headed? 
    Doing bare minimum or doing your tasks and fucking off isn't enough. It's expected that we outgrow constantly, as if it's this work that we can always think about and nothing else. At the end, am wondering if it's still worth it?
    1 day it feels that let's just quit it! Next day I feel, okay, I do want the money. 

I ain't looking for suggestions here, just wanted to see if anyone else felt this way

Getting increasingly bored of work at startup

Been there, but money is very important especially for a middle class family, for most of us we are earning 5x more than our parents at least and have huge expectations from families to provide them with good life

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Honestly, I thought the added allowance would be worth it. 

But I honestly hate the work I'm doing and everything about the office in general. 

I miss chilling out in the evenings after work like a normal person, I miss just being normal and not having weird sleep patterns.

I cry or am on the verge of crying almost everyday. 
At this point, I just want to quit and take a few weeks to feel normal and happier?

Of course, given the market, this would be a very stupid decision. Unfortunately all the jobs I'm getting are usually a pay cut.

I don't get how people, with MBAs, families and an active social life do this, honestly.
I have neither and I freaking hate it.

Would quitting be actually worth it for my overall health?

I'm miserable working the night shift.

Take the pay cut and come out of this nightshift. 
  
 This nightshift thing will f’up your health too.

Account Manager

Ask any tech bro to work on Saturday and they will start crying about work life balance. FYI most professionals in India work on Saturdays. In India more than 90% folks are self employed. 

Lawyers, accountants, doctors, plumbers, carpenters, business owners all of them work on Saturdays. Your work life balance comes because you enjoy their services on Saturday and Sunday going around spending money and having fun. 

So not working on Saturday is a privilege and not a compulsion. 

On one side we are sad that companies lay us off and on the other side we want work life balance even at the cost of the growth. We despise anyone who creates wealth. 

Chal kya raha hai? Sabko startups mein bhi MNREGA scheme chahiye kya? Have some growth mindset folks. 

With so much work life balance you are just stuck in Manali traffic jam and Krishnagiri toll booth. 

Happy Traffic Christmas 🎁

Only tech Bros keep crying about work life balance!

Senior Software Engineer

genz

And at work 
  
 + the endless chase for the mirage that is wlb 
 + if anything isn't per their expectation, its toxic

Sales Manager

Works never seems to end and there are hardly any boundaries left. Unless you are in management, it’s super difficult to define and maintain boundaries. How have we come to this ? Isn’t technology supposed to make us all time-rich ?

Are there any real 9 to 5 jobs left ?

Management Consultant

Hi All, 
I think with funding winter, the work culture in Bangalore Startups is becoming toxic day by day. In my company, it started with filling the daily time sheet of what work we did, then why do we need work from home( Company gives 4wfh/month), then a circular came today that every data filled in timesheet will be minutely checked with card punches, can't be late even for 5 minutes more than 3 times a month. The hypocrisy part is employees are underpaid(5-6 LPA for software developer) and overworked(9+ hrs/day).
I got to know one more startup where they have normalised 12hrs/day 6 days a week working and if you work less, it will affect negatively. They force their employees to reside nearby to the office so they can work till 12-2am from 10.30am.

Is it common everywhere?

Why is everyone working 9-5. Going home.

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