{"id":942333,"date":"2025-06-30T08:49:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942333"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:55:42","slug":"ctrl-alt-escape-the-14-hour-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/ctrl-alt-escape-the-14-hour-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Ctrl + Alt + Escape: The 14-Hour Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka government recently proposed amendments that could impact the workforce behind the IT capital of India. The proposal allows for up to 12-hour workdays, inclusive of overtime. The government has cited \u2018ease of doing business\u2019 as one of the reasons and clarified that it won\u2019t override the 48-hours-per-week limit that already exists. But IT unions have complained that it could be tantamount to \u2018modern slavery\u2019, diminish work-life balance, and cause mental agony and stress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka government recently proposed amendments that could impact the workforce behind the IT capital of India. The proposal allows for up to 12-hour workdays, inclusive of overtime. The government has cited \u2018ease of doing business\u2019 as one of the reasons and clarified that it won\u2019t override the 48-hours-per-week limit that already exists. But IT unions have complained that it could be tantamount to \u2018modern slavery\u2019, diminish work-life balance, and cause mental agony and stress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}