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Average work hours in India.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨aboringdystopia@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Omgarm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How many of those are productive hours? I hope there’s at least 20 of doing fuck all.

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    • alienzx@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you’ve ever tried to do anything in India… It’s like 10% productivity

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      • i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Indians Work Longest, Earn Least With Virtually No Time for Leisure: ILO Report. The minimum statutory wage of an Indian worker is the lowest in the world, except for some sub-Saharan African countries.

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    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most of it is probably listening to people hang up on you, or being sent to voicemail.

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      • Cruxifux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I honestly feel so bad for those people. I could never do that job.

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    • Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve been at jobs where 72 hour and were required. But in those 72 hours we are amok three meals and went to the gym. There was plenty of screw off time as well.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m working right now. I signed on half an hour ago and they still haven’t been given anything to do

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Kinda depends since a lot of those jobs are in manual labor sitches where you can’t really just browse the net and then swap the window when you see the floor manager walking by to look like you’re busy.

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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mr. Murthy is almost happy

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    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • emc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • nerdschleife@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Cruxifux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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”

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  • MooseGas@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Doing the needful.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Every time they write this in an email it boils my blood. Because they write it without any kind of context as to what “the needful” is.

      At this point I’ve taken it to just be a common catch all phrase that just gets thrown in at the end of a sentence and can essentially be ignored as it contains no linguistic meaning.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As much as my own country’s system sucks, I’m reminded to be grateful for what we have while remaining resolute to fight for more.

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    • Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      People likely died to protect what you have.

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      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        some_

        Is that supposed to make me glad that I’m exploited?

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  • slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I basically have to deal with Indian IT call centers for a living, and I always try (sadly, not always successfully) to frame my exasperation like this: if I got paid what they got paid to do their jobs, and if I had to work the hours that they do, I wouldn’t give a shit about my job, either.

    I die a little inside when my coworkers call them stupid. They don’t stop to think that their work culture makes ours in the US seem downright relaxing.

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    • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m reminded of my impulse whenever I get a rate-our-service popup: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💯 Perfect Service! Absolutely Nothing Went Wrong PLEASE DO NOT FIRE ANYONE!

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  • Velvus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve been working with Indians onsite and remotely for most my working life. In both cases for the maybe hundreds of Indian colleagues I’ve had, I have never had any impression they are more productive in any way than local/native colleagues. On the contrary actually very much. And most of us locally work 32 - 40 hours a week.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I work 40 hours a week and I have no idea what their work schedule is but they definitely don’t get as much done as we do but also like their pay piddens compared to us, so it’s not really surprising.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    An other example of hard work not making you rich.

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    • banneryear1868@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I like my boss, he’s a good friend of mine, that’s why I’m starving out on the bread line

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  • lichtmetzger@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    God damn, that’s insane. I’m doing half of that per week. I would just be sleeping ever single minute I’m not working.

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  • i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    for those who do not know mr murthy

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  • Cruxifux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hate that I work 5 hours a week more than the most worked place in India.

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    • Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I hope this gets you motivated before you got too weak and old to change it any longer.

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      • Cruxifux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well that’s basically why I do it, so I don’t have to do it when I’m old and weak. It’s the only real option afforded to me as a construction guy.

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  • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nagaland: naga take your shit boss!

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Guessing this is mean average, what’s the median?

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    • candybrie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Since there can’t super crazy outliers, the median probably isn’t that far off.

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  • burchalka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow, would be nice to see whether this corresponds with median household income, if at all…

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    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      …wikimedia.org/…/File:NSDP_Per_Capita_of_Indian_S…

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  • pg_sax_i_frage@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    on a related, but perhaps lighter note, : if anyone wants to hear a tale, involving a worker that quits a exploitative job, and goes off to do something better with their time, youight watch/listen to : piped.video/watch?v=WNuv0_MLrKg (and the setting for the somewhat dystopia start of this story, as for the post above , is in India. )

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