India and Indian employees’ long working hours have grabbed people’s attention globally multiple times. For years and decades, this practice has become the norm. Recently, a former Amazon employee talked about this work process on social media and praised colleagues in Bengaluru for working day and night on different projects. However, Netizens do not find it to be praiseworthy.
Ex-Amazon Executive Applauded Bengaluru Colleagues For 60+ Work Hours
Taking to LinkedIn, Adam Broda shared about his work experience and how he worked over 60 hours in some weeks. Though he spent long durations at work, he specified how it was never as many as his team members in India. Many members of the dev team were from Bengaluru and these employees remained online at 7 AM. They conveniently joined weekly staff meetings at 10 in the morning. In fact, they often attended afternoon VP-level reviews at 4 PM.
Calling it a “crazy/debatable thing”, he pointed out how most colleagues happily followed this work pattern “As if 60+ hrs was normal and the opportunity worth taking.” In his 5-year experience, he saw leaders asking why they were joining calls at 3 AM IST. Surprisingly, most of their responses were about how they wanted to join the call.
Adam further highlighted that ‘culture’ will always ‘eat strategy for breakfast.’ While praising his former colleagues, he also asked people to check in on their international employees, know about their working hours, and help them with accommodating their needs based on their time zones.
Social Media Users Are Not Happy With The Post
There have been endless conversations on social media platforms about most Indian employees overworking and spending half of their days on professional commitments. Seeing Adam praising his colleagues for spending such long hours at work every week, many Netizens raised concerns about burnout rates and how many employees have no options but to work like this.
Distressing over the post, a LinkedIn user commented, “It’s not a good culture. Many people need the job so they’ll bend over backwards. It is sad actually. What happened to work-life balance or it does not exist in India.” Another user wrote, “I can imagine the burnout rates in India are very high.” Observing the conversation, someone also pointed out this practice costs people’s health and personal lives.
Elaborating on work culture in most places in India, a commenter mentioned that the rank is appropriate for India but the number is wrong. Instead, it is way higher than the presented number. Most companies have a 6-day work culture in India and many operate a 9-hour workday. “The weekends and nights are yet to be calculated. I know some of you will defend with the average thing but sometimes the dashboards and visuals don’t have the right story but the practical world people, the employees, and the consumers can tell that story to you,” he further added.
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Cover Image Courtesy: Canva, LinkedIn/ Adam Broda
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