The majority of Indians are farmers, and they don’t have fixed hours. They do whatever it takes to get a good harvest, or they’re in trouble.
You can see in the map how the agricultural state have higher numbers, with Bihar being the big exception.
Comment on Average work hours in India.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Unless every worker in India is a millionaire, this seems like gross exploitation.
India is not an expensive place to live, so what is 60h+ getting these people?
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
emc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The survey title seems to indicate they are targeting urban men with these surveys. I would think that would exclude agricultural workers, wouldn’t it?
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 8 months ago
From what I’ve casually heard over the years, and someone correct me if I’m wrong, lots of people try to get urban jobs because most are from farms and they’re poor. That’s one of the reasons call centers are so big.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This is true, but most of them actually work in light industry, construction, garments and so on. Call centres are a fairly minor sector.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
My bad! I’m middle class so I know things are worse for many people, but I didn’t realise it was this bad.
nerdschleife@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I work around 45 hours a week and earn around 35,000 rupees monthly. Translates to around 5k USD yearly. This is on the lower end for someone working in tech (I’m in QA, not a dev), developers can expect from 6k to 24k USD on average. They are also expected to reach work harder, though. There are roles and exceptions to this, obviously.
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Like… that sounds pretty good. Everyone on here being like “OMG EVERY TIME I THINK THE USA IS SO BAD I SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND IM GRATEFUL I LIVE THERE”
LwL@lemmy.world 8 months ago
…does it? I make more than 10x that as QA in germany, work 40 hours a week (with 30 vacation days, no idea what vacation standards are in indua) and cost of living is around 4x what it is in india.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“OMG EVERY TIME I THINK THE USA IS SO BAD I SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND IM GRATEFUL I LIVE THERE”
We expect better from the land that exports their culture everywhere and claims to be NuMBAH 1!
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mean i don’t really watch anything with advertisements in it and we don’t really do the whole movie ads on billboards thing in Alberta that I’ve seen, so I’m probably a bad person to ask. But I assume it doesn’t really happen in situations where that would happen I guess?
can@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Mr. Murthy is almost happy