Capgemini CEO Advocates for 47.5-Hour Work Week, Discourages Weekend Emails

The leader of Capgemini India Ashwin Yardi supports employee health by pushing for 47.5 working hours with no weekend contact. At the NTLF event, Ashwin Yardi stated that employees need to work nine hours each day over five days. Industry leaders N R Narayana Murthy and S N Subrahmanyan disagree with their views on 70-hour and 90-hour workweeks respectively.

For the past four years, Yardi has maintained a clear rule against emailing on weekends except when he possesses the required skills to fix an urgent issue on Saturday or Sunday. He thinks sending non-urgent messages to employees on weekends serves no purpose because they know their tasks need weekend time to complete them.

Our talk showed that industry leaders use different ways to handle work issues. Sindhu Gangadharan and Saugata Gupta support providing objectives instead of rigid time limits for work in their roles as Nasscom Chairperson and Marico CEO. Yardi emphasized Capgemini’s employee-focused plans such as multiple promotion opportunities and feedback surveys because they help new IT professionals grow in their careers.

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