Would you advocate a 3 days work week for India?

Would you advocate a 3 days work week for India?

Introduction

World’s big business shots like Carlos Slim and Richard Branson have advocated for 3 days working in a week, giving the leverage for 4 days holiday to the employees. They feel the change in the current working time-table making 11 hours working on the 3 working days with 4 holidays in a week could be an encouragement for the employees, who might come up with the better performance and increased productivity. However, the same trend in India seems to be a bad option for many, as the businessmen and industrialists find Indians already bad at the productivity phase, reducing the number of working days will further deteriorate the performance.

Will it be a wise move to implement a 3 days work week in our country?

No

- Indians lack in the workmen spirit which is well found in the foreign countries. With a lazy working notion, Indians cannot expect such leverage.

- The 3 days working environment is suitable only for specific working units. While the other industries like the healthcare, customer service, entertainment etc., definitely demand the work throughout the week.

- Indians lack in self-restrictions and self-discipline at work. This is one of the main reasons that we often fail to meet our targets especially in a public sector which doesn’t have any foreign client requirement for the work to be accomplished on time. Longer working hours will just add to more wastage of time by the employees instead of increasing the productivity.

- The reduction in the number of working days will not only affect the target and time factor, but also the quality. People will keep following their lazy holiday mood at work which will yield a deteriorating work quality on the graph.

- The married females might find it a challenge to concentrate both the work and home with the increasing working hours. Also the safety and security concern of females in India remain a big matter of concern.

- Daily work keeps a person active and fit maintaining a regular schedule. People will lose their briskness and this might show an increase in the lifestyle disorder due to the laziness.

- India at the moment is in a growth phase, we can't afford to rest for 4 days in a week at the moment.

- Our industries are mostly customer service oriented wherein we can't afford to be on a holiday for 4 days a week.

Yes

- Indians are the most preferred working class throughout the world. If the top business leaders talk of the employees giving them the targets, they do include the Indians at work. So, Indians definitely have the capacity to complete the targets much ahead of time.

- Indians are hard-working and punctual. Not all the Indians are lazy. Especially the youth today is much focussed on the work culture and their aims are always high to achieve the best in the least possible time. It would be unfair to under-estimate such enthusiastic youth of India.

- Reducing the number of working days will help in giving time to the personal relations which is almost lost in our country. This way we can get back our culture of affection and family bonding.

- Increase in the working hours on the 3 working days is an appreciable move. The work can be accomplished well in the same heat when continued rather that breaking it into small fragments to be done every day.

- Coming on to the health concern, Indians already crib for lack of time for their fitness schedule; which they state as the cause of lifestyle disorders. With four days as holiday, they can get plenty of time to carry on with their fitness regime and gain good health conditions.

Conclusion

Though it is a good statement to think for having more holidays with increase in the working hours on the remaining days, still this would be a difficult match for the present Indian culture. The youth might be having the spark of stretching their working hours and catching up with the pace of the world. But we need to analyse the complete working class of India which does not comprise only of the youth, but people of different ages. The others might find the same re-scheduling a difficult parameter to catch up. The older generation might also think conversely regarding the long working hours and keeping their children away from home for longer duration.