Currently the issue of 90 Hours Work Week is in the headlines in the country. When engineering sector giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Chairman SN Subramanian advised his employees to ‘work 90 hours a week’, it created a similar uproar as Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy did last year. This happened after the suggestion of working 70 hours a week. Amidst all this, do you know in which country of the world people work the most in a week?
Average working hours in the world are 40-50 hours
In India you must have often heard from someone or the other that the time for going to our office is fixed, but not for coming back. But let us tell you that the average weekly work hours across the world are between 40-50 hours. However, there are many countries where work is done for slightly more hours than this fixed limit, but especially in high income or developed countries, weekly work hours are kept less. In many countries, work is done four days a week. Not only this, if employees are made to work more hours, there is also a provision to give them overtime reward.
What do the figures say?
Even though the issue of 70 and 90 hour work week is a hot topic in India, if we look at the statistics, India is already among the highest working countries in the world. In a report published on India Today in September, citing figures from the International Labor Organization, it was said that the average Indian employee spends 46.7 hours at work per week.
Highest weekly work hours in these countries
According to the International Labor Organization, Bhutan is at the top among the countries in the world that work the most hours in a week, where it is 54.4 hours work week. Apart from this, UAE (50.9 hours), Caongo (48.6 hours), Qatar (48 hours) are included in the top-10 list. Apart from India, there are also countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan and China. If we look at working hours in other countries,…
Why did the issue of 90 hours work become heated?
Now let’s talk about why the issue of 90 hours work is a hot topic in India? So, let us tell you that L&T Chairman SN Subramanian, while talking to his employees through video conferencing, advised them to work 90 hours a week. He said in his statement that how much you will look after your wife while staying at home, spend less time at home and more time in office. After this he started getting trolled on social media. Meanwhile, L&T company issued a statement and gave clarification on this comment of the Chairman.
The company gave this clarification
After being trolled over the suggestion of 90 hours work, L&T issued a statement saying that this is India’s decade, a time of collective dedication and commitment to further drive growth and realize our shared vision of becoming a developed nation. Requires effort. Our Chairman’s remarks reflect this great ambition, underscoring that extraordinary results require extraordinary effort.
