{"id":974771,"date":"2025-11-18T11:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974771"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:41:15","slug":"infosys-founder-narayana-murthy-wants-young-indians-to-follow-chinas-banned-996-model-no-country-has-progressed-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/18\/infosys-founder-narayana-murthy-wants-young-indians-to-follow-chinas-banned-996-model-no-country-has-progressed-without\/","title":{"rendered":"Infosys founder Narayana Murthy wants young Indians to follow China’s banned ‘996’ model: “No country has progressed without…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy has reignited India’s work culture debate by advocating for a 72-hour workweek, this time citing China’s controversial ‘996’ schedule as justification. In an interview with Republic TV, the 79-year-old billionaire referenced the practice where employees work from 9 AM to 9 PM, six days a week\u2014amounting to 72 hours weekly.<\/p>\n

This isn’t Murthy’s first call for extended work hours. In 2023, he sparked nationwide controversy by advocating a 70-hour workweek for nation-building. Now, he’s citing China’s work culture to reinforce his stance. Murthy revealed that Catamaran, his family investment office, had dispatched senior and mid-level staff to various Chinese cities to study ground conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy has reignited India’s work culture debate by advocating for a 72-hour workweek, this time citing China’s controversial ‘996’ schedule as justification. In an interview with Republic TV, the 79-year-old billionaire referenced the practice where employees work from 9 AM to 9 PM, six days a week\u2014amounting to 72 hours weekly. This isn’t Murthy’s first call for extended work hours. In 2023, he sparked nationwide controversy by advocating a 70-hour workweek for nation-building. Now, he’s citing China’s work culture to reinforce his stance. Murthy revealed that Catamaran, his family investment office, had dispatched senior and mid-level […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974771","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}