{"id":975015,"date":"2025-11-19T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=975015"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:28:42","slug":"narayana-murthy-s-endorsement-of-a-996-china-work-week-rekindles-debate-on-indias-work-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/19\/narayana-murthy-s-endorsement-of-a-996-china-work-week-rekindles-debate-on-indias-work-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Narayana Murthy \u2019s endorsement of a &#8216;9,9,6 China&#8217; work week rekindles debate on India\u2019s work culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: N R Narayana Murthy has once again ignited a national conversation by advocating a 72-hour work week for India\u2019s youth, drawing inspiration from China\u2019s \u201c9-9-6\u201d culture of 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. Speaking recently, the Infosys co-founder said that India must embrace extraordinary discipline and hard work if it wants to close the economic gap with global competitors. He pointed to China as an example of a country where long hours, intense commitment and productivity have gone hand-in-hand in driving rapid economic growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: N R Narayana Murthy has once again ignited a national conversation by advocating a 72-hour work week for India\u2019s youth, drawing inspiration from China\u2019s \u201c9-9-6\u201d culture of 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. Speaking recently, the Infosys co-founder said that India must embrace extraordinary discipline and hard work if it wants to close the economic gap with global competitors. He pointed to China as an example of a country where long hours, intense commitment and productivity have gone hand-in-hand in driving rapid economic growth.<\/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-975015","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\/975015","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=975015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}