Entrepreneur Shantanu Naidu joins ‘18-hour workday’ debate | Watch
Freshers should not do ‘rona dhona’, and put in 18 hours a day for at least the first 4-5 years of their career, Bombay Shaving Company CEO Shantanu Deshpande had recently said. He received severe flak for his remarks.
Entrepreneur Shantanu Naidu, who works as a General Manager in the office of industrialist Ratan Tata, has shared his opinion on ‘the ’18 hours a day’ work culture for freshers, which was suggested by his namesake, Bombay Shaving Company CEO Shantanu Deshpande. After receiving severe backlash, Deshpande apologised in his ‘final post’ on LinkedIn.
Naidu, too, took to LinkedIn to opine on the issue. “I think the problem with this toxic hustle culture is that it brings down the value of a person only down to his achievements and productivity, and I think as human beings, we are worth much more than that,” the 28-year-old founder of GoodFellows, a startup which connects youngsters with senior citizens, said.
People who want to work 18 hours a day are free to do so, Naidu further remarked. “But to preach that to young, impressionable minds is not a great idea because that’s not what makes us individuals and human beings,” he added.
“In the end, it’s more relationships, and love, and what we leave behind for other people that really makes us human beings, and not being valued at how much work I did today,” the MBA graduate from Cornell University concluded, conceding that his may be a ‘problematic’ opinion, but is his opinion.
