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?
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.
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.
Cisco supremacy!
what you mean by sweatshops?
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.
That last sentence is very reminiscent of Japanese work culture and demographics there. At some point it needs to be controlled
What about the Japanese work culture?
I am a fresher. What if someone went completely offline outside offline hours?
Like... after 9-5, tu kon me kon...
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.
Got it!
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 ?
How many companies still have 6 days working? I am in robotics/manufacturing in MSME, I have a 6 day Workweek, is it a general trend in manufacturing or general trend in MSME?
🚀 + To the moon, startups want your life 6 days a week and liver etc and pay 🥜
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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.