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.

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.

Always remember friends, the reward for hard work is more work 😉

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.

I am a fresher. What if someone went completely offline outside offline hours?

Like... after 9-5, tu kon me kon...

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.

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.

i work 10:30 to 4:30 ~ 5:00. Banglore. PBC. Optym.

A 9-5 isn’t a reality in most places of the world, not just India.