Is 9-5 a myth in India?
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?
Qwerty2398
Stealth
a year ago
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.
Qwerty2398
Stealth
a year ago
But this system has its own merits.. my boss knows am a kaam chor.. i know my boss knows it too. but we will stay quiet as long as it is smooth functioning for all parties.
I have mostly worked strictly 10-6 throughout my career. And this was across 4 companies. But then again I always said no to offers from sweatshops where I mostly interviewed for practice - even if they were paying +20%
Boring and simple MNCs always.
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Engineer404
Stealth
a year ago
Nobody works only for 9-5, you extend it left or right based on the need.
If there is some P0 issue that requires me to work on weekends, then my HR adds comp off leaves to my portfolio. But i don’t get paid in any way.
Its not disconnected, but due to the high density of the people willing to work, it creates a compete-full environment, where employees fall for the scheme where you are made to believe “if you need to be recognised, you need to work beyond 9-5”, which is total bullshit, but its too late before you realise it and you are already part of the fallen.
Pixeldynamic
Stealth
a year ago
That last sentence is very reminiscent of Japanese work culture and demographics there. At some point it needs to be controlled
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AITookMyJobToo
Stealth
a year ago
I am a fresher.
What if someone went completely offline outside offline hours?
Like... after 9-5, tu kon me kon...
Engineer404
Stealth
a year ago
Depends on how much workload you have been given, if you are in a product based startup, its not possible and that too for a fresher.
If you are in a service based company, it might be possible, depending upon the urgency of the deliverables. I know some HCL folks who are on a slow client project and they just work from 10-7 and then tata bye bye. Also, in those 9hrs of work, they do 1-2 hr max of work, then they just pass the time by either upskilling themselves or watching tv series and what not.
Totally depends on whether you want to live your fresher life balanced without much load, or a work heavy one where you want to rapidly grow and earn as much as you can.
AITookMyJobToo
Stealth
a year ago
Got it!
The Prussian model of education wanted mindless obedient workers in the workplace. And the illuminati is in control of everything. No point in talking about 9-5.
Demon
Stealth
a year ago
The only place you need to work 9 to 5 is people facing offices ( clerks in government offices, magistrates, teachers ).
You are not paid per hour in a white collar job, you are paid to take responsibility. If responsibility demands 2 hours of work on days, its fine, if it requires 12 hours on some days its fine too.
Problem is Indians finding it hard to leave office on days there are no tickets to address. Bosses need to know that going offline on days there are no tickets ia ok, employees need to know they can go home at 2 PM instead of chai sutta sessions with coworkers on days there is no work. One of the problems with building a social circle in office is you stay there even when there is no work.
In my previous company, i used to work with people from Romania and Chile. Those guys were like we will work for only 9 hours a day and will not work a minute more than that
And in my current company, though it's a well reputed MNC, the stakeholders don't have the concept of work hours. Just because we are from the Indian office they email us at 8 PM and expect us to work on it.
I guess one of the reasons is that we ourselves have accepted this servitude. Plus we know that there are 1000s of us out there to replace us so if we don't say yes to the toxic culture then we will be replaced.
ArchGamer0
Student
a year ago
i work 10:30 to 4:30 ~ 5:00. Banglore. PBC. Optym.
ProteinPancakes
Stealth
a year ago
A 9-5 isn’t a reality in most places of the world, not just India.
9-5 or 9-9 is statistically impossible given a longer period of time. Either you are fired unable to get promoted in former or burn out in latter. There are always peaks and troughs in your career. Depending on personal situation and your priorities, choose the smoothen out the curve
avgspacelover
Stealth
a year ago
bro org name?
It is definitely a myth in jobs where you have daily deliverables or work for US Banks back office operations.
Nope, You would think that all the companies are like that, but I know a few people who have a very chill job and work less than 20 hrs per week as a SWE or DS and get paid well in product companies. These guys might be outliers but still it shows that wlb depends on the team.
Falana_dimkhana
Stealth
a year ago
Its depends on the company and the timezone that company follows ,like for me from last 5 yrs I am working for south east asian companies and follow 9-5 . Prior to that as well I followed the same 10-6 for US/Europe companies.
The second part is whenever any critical issues come,make sure you are available.
For me it's like 5-6 times a year.
I am talking about this for a product based company . For service based ,it will be mostly stretchable .
I login between 10-11am, work for 2-3hrs take a lunch break (1hr) then work again logout between (5-8pm), wfh so timings changes as per tickets and prod golive.
I work from 11am to 5am in the morning.
Saturdays included. That's my 9-5😭
FuzzyLogic
Stealth
a year ago
when did the 9-6 term change to 9-5?
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