Worked 70+ hours a week for over 40 years,it wasn't a waste, says Infosys' Narayana Murthy

Infosys cofounder NR Narayana Murthy doesn't seem perturbed by the kerfuffle he sparked by suggesting recently that youngsters ought to work 70 hours a week to boost productivity and enhance India's competitiveness...

"I used to be in the office at 6:20 am and leave office at 8:30 pm and worked six days a week," he told ET in an interview..

"My parents taught me very early in life that the only way we could hope to escape poverty was to work very, very hard - of course, assuming that one gets the best productivity from each hour of work," he said.. Murthy was the fifth of eight children in a family of modest means - his father was a schoolteacher in Mysore..

On a recent podcast with former Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai, Murthy had said that India's work productivity was among the lowest in the world...

"My parents told me that the only way I can escape from the orbit of poverty was by good values - honesty, hard work, discipline, and good work ethic," he said..

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