Indians Work Longest, Earn Least, With No Leisure: ILO Report
3 years, 10 months ago

Indians Work Longest, Earn Least, With No Leisure: ILO Report

The Quint  

The report further reveals that an average worker works 46 hours a week in China, 36 hours in the United Kingdom, 37 hours in the United States and 36 hours in Israel. As for casual labour, rural men work for 45 hours per week,and women spend 39 hours working. In urban areas, self-employed men work 55 hours per week, while women work 39 hours. Salaried employees and regular wage earning men spend 53 hours a week working, while women work for 46 hours. According to Live Mint, labour unions are opposed to a four-day workweek, as it would mean instituting 12-hour shifts a day accounting for the current 48 work hours per week.

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L&T chief not alone, these Indian CEOs have also batted for longer work hours
2 days, 11 hours ago

L&T chief not alone, these Indian CEOs have also batted for longer work hours

India Today  

In September last year, the death of a young Ernst and Young employee allegedly due to excessive workload sparked widespread outrage on social media. SN Subrahmanyan's remarks have only added fuel to the fire over the ongoing debate on work-life balance, first triggered by Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy in 2023 when he suggested a 70-hour work week. NARAYANA MURTHY'S 70-HOUR …

Limiting monetisable time and country’s prosperity...: Economic Survey 2024 on extended working hours in India
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Limiting monetisable time and country’s prosperity...: Economic Survey 2024 on extended working hours in India

Live Mint  

The Economic Survey 2024, tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament on Monday, July 22, revealed that many countries offer more flexibility in office working hours and allow for more overtime compared to India. The survey compares the working hours of India with countries such as Bangladesh and Vietnam, with 11 and 12 hours, respectively. The survey also states …

Should Indians work longer hours?
1 year, 2 months ago

Should Indians work longer hours?

The Hindu  

Infosys founder Narayana Murthy recently said that young Indians should work 70 hours a week in order to compete with countries like China. Anamitra Roy Chowdhury: Working 14 hours a day for five days, or 11.5 for six days, doesn’t account for travel, which may add another two hours. While Germans and the Japanese worked longer hours after World War …

Putting Infosys founder Narayana Murthy’s ‘70-hour work week’ idea into perspective | Data
1 year, 2 months ago

Putting Infosys founder Narayana Murthy’s ‘70-hour work week’ idea into perspective | Data

The Hindu  

Narayana Murthy recently said that young Indians must work for 70 hours a week. A comparison of annual working hours per worker and labour productivity in India, Germany and Japan is presented in Chart 2. The chart shows that the average annual working hours of Germans and the Japanese peaked after the war at about 2,200 hours to 2,400 hours …

Why Narayana Murthy is wrong about the 70-hour work week
1 year, 2 months ago

Why Narayana Murthy is wrong about the 70-hour work week

The Hindu  

Narayana Murthy sparked a debate last week by urging young Indians to work 70 hours per week, which translates to about 12 hours of work per day assuming a 6-day work week, to develop the country. However, the tech billionaire wrongly attributes India’s low worker productivity to the number of hours worked by Indians when the real problem lies elsewhere. …

Women do 7 hours of housework, men under 3 hours - The Hindu
1 year, 5 months ago

Women do 7 hours of housework, men under 3 hours - The Hindu

The Hindu  

On July 24, the Tamil Nadu government launched camps to facilitate the registration of applicants for the Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thogai Thittam, or women’s basic income scheme. Data shows that married women spend on average over seven hours a day doing such work, regardless of their employment status, while men spend less than three hours. Click to subscribe to our …

ILO to come up with India-specific report on working hours
1 year, 8 months ago

ILO to come up with India-specific report on working hours

Live Mint  

As many states are opting to increase the working hours from 8 hours to 12 hours in India, International Labour Organisation will soon come up with its report reviewing the working hours and work schedules prevalent in the country. According to an Economic Times report, ILO is reviewing the working hours and work schedules of people in India and will …

12-hr workday: What works and what doesn’t
1 year, 8 months ago

12-hr workday: What works and what doesn’t

Live Mint  

Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have allowed 12-hour workdays for factories, increasing an eight-hour cap. States with a substantial manufacturing base now want to retain their edge—they want to attract multinational cos by allowing night shifts for women and additional work hours. “The overall work hours in the week remain capped at 48, which means a four-day week against an earlier …

A call to action: How Indian men can support working women’s progress
1 year, 8 months ago

A call to action: How Indian men can support working women’s progress

Live Mint  

In a standard economic model, agents maximize utility across goods, services and leisure. My analysis reveals that working women spend significantly less time on leisurely activities than working men and also compared to women who do not spend any time on employment-related activities. The TUS was a national representative sample that measured, in 30-minute intervals from 4am onwards, the time …

Four-day working week in India? Experts optimistic after UK’s successful trial
1 year, 10 months ago

Four-day working week in India? Experts optimistic after UK’s successful trial

Live Mint  

The four-day workweek debate is back! Six months ago, Britain kickstarted an experiment in over 60 companies allowing almost 3,000 employees to work one day less per week while retaining the same salary. Meanwhile, the idea 4-day working week is gradually gaining popularity in India as well. Ujjal De, Founder and CEO of KarmaV said that the success of a …

Women spend 7.2 hrs on unpaid domestic work compared to 2.8 hrs spent by men: Study
1 year, 10 months ago

Women spend 7.2 hrs on unpaid domestic work compared to 2.8 hrs spent by men: Study

Deccan Chronicle  

Ahmedabad: Women in the working age category of 15 to 60 years spend 7.2 hours on unpaid domestic work compared to 2.8 hours spent by men, indicating they have “time poverty", as per a research conducted by a professor from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Even wage-earning women spend twice the amount of time on unpaid domestic work in …

Why India's Laxmi Deserves More Shakti Through Equal Skill Training and Job Opportunities
2 years, 4 months ago

Why India's Laxmi Deserves More Shakti Through Equal Skill Training and Job Opportunities

News 18  

A recent report by consulting group McKinsey Global has highlighted the immense economic potential India is failing to realise, all because women face work-related hindrances. As per the Time Use Survey Report 2019, women in India spend only 61 minutes per day on employment and related activities, as opposed to 247 minutes spent on unpaid domestic services. According to 2019-2020 …

Unpaid work burdens women
2 years, 10 months ago

Unpaid work burdens women

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Claims on women empowerment and providing them large-scale employment opportunities both at the national and state levels are just myths, going by data provided by the National Statistical Office, a wing of the ministry of statistics and programme implementation. Urban women spend on average 25 per cent less time than men on employment activities, while the time-gap in rural …

Employees giving away over 11 hrs/week for free on average to their employers in India: Report
3 years, 5 months ago

Employees giving away over 11 hrs/week for free on average to their employers in India: Report

India TV News  

The amount of unpaid overtime that workers around the world are doing has soared in the past year and in India, employees are giving away more than 11 hours per week for free on average to their employers, according to a report. According to a new study by the ADP Research Institute titled 'People at Work 2021: A Global Workforce …

Longest Hours, Least Wages, No Leisure: ILO Report Reveals India's Non-Existent Work-Life Balance
3 years, 10 months ago

Longest Hours, Least Wages, No Leisure: ILO Report Reveals India's Non-Existent Work-Life Balance

News 18  

According to a report by International Labour Organization, Indians are among the most overworked workers globally while earning the lowest minimum statutory wage in the Asia-Pacific region, barring Bangladesh. In rural India, while self-employed men work 48 hours, women spend 37 hours working in a week. As for casual labour, rural men work for 45 hours per week, and women …

Indian workers work longest, earn the least
3 years, 10 months ago

Indian workers work longest, earn the least

Live Mint  

For white collar workers who have made an easy transition to working from home, the prospect of a four-day work week, as proposed by India’s new labour codes, created some excitement recently. Within India, it is the better-paid workers in cities who tend to work longer than their rural counterparts, data from the 2018-19 Periodic Labour Force Survey shows. The …

India's GDP drag: Why the unfair gender-division in work weighs down the economy
4 years, 3 months ago

India's GDP drag: Why the unfair gender-division in work weighs down the economy

India Today  

About six years ago, Sonu Devi, 31, a farmer from Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district told this reporter what a day in her life was like. Women spent an average of 299 minutes per day on unpaid domestic labour, with men spending 97 minutes. Women spent an average of 134 minutes per day on unpaid caregiving responsibilities for household members, nearly …

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