Central authorities welfare schemes like MNREGA, JAN DHAN accounts and direct profit transfers are making staff unwilling to journey from their hometowns as they like the consolation of such measures, Subrahmanyan
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Larsen and Toubro (L&T) Chairman SN Subrahmanyan, who took the web up by storm by suggesting a 90-hour work week, has stoked one other controversy after he stated that authorities schemes are affecting labour mobilisation as staff are reluctant to relocate for jobs.
Central authorities welfare schemes like MNREGA, JAN DHAN accounts and direct profit transfers are making staff unwilling to journey from their hometowns as they like the consolation of such measures, Subrahmanyan stated on the CII’s Mystic South World Linkages Summit 2025 in Chennai.
He stated, “Labour will not be prepared to maneuver for alternatives. Possibly their native financial system is doing properly, perhaps it’s as a result of varied authorities schemes,” including {that a} scarcity in labour will have an effect on India’s infrastructure.
Addressing the difficulty of excessive attrition, he famous that whereas L&T wants 4 lakh staff, it hires 16 lakh to compensate for the excessive turnover. He additionally emphasised the necessity to modify wages in step with inflation.
Final month, Subrahmanyan had sparked a web-based outrage together with his feedback advocating a 90-hour work week and suggesting that staff ought to even surrender Sundays.
“How lengthy are you able to stare at your spouse,” he’s heard saying in a purported video tackle to staff the place he urged them to spend much less time at house and extra within the workplace.
His remarks reignited the work-life steadiness debate, first triggered by Infosys Co-Founder Narayana Murthy’s suggestion of a 70-hour work week.
“I remorse I’m not in a position to make you’re employed on Sundays. If I could make you’re employed on Sundays, I will probably be extra completely satisfied as a result of I work on Sundays,” Subrahmanyan is heard saying in an undated video circulating on social media.
“What do you do sitting at house? How lengthy are you able to stare at your spouse? How lengthy can the wives stare at their husbands? Come on, get to the workplace and begin working,” he additional stated.
With inputs from PTI
