Corporate bosses turn Sunday into ‘Stareday’ | India News


Corporate bosses turn Sunday into 'Stareday'
L&T chairman SN Subrahmanyan

BENGALURU: It’s raining memes on work-life balance. L&T chairman SN Subrahmanyan’s remarks advocating a 90-hour work week and mandatory work on Sundays sparked a memefest online with corporate bosses joining content creators in the viral discourse.
In an undated video Subrahmanyan posed a rhetorical question, “How long can you stare at your wife?” whilst encouraging employees to reduce their time at home and increase their presence in the workplace, including on Sundays. “Even my wife Natasha Poonawalla thinks I am wonderful, she loves staring at me on Sundays. Quality of work over quantity always,” Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla posted on X on Sunday, joining thousands of netizens who have trashed the L&T chief’s suggestion despite the company’s defence of the idea.

Staring Sundays

Infy founder’s 70-hour workweek call had drawn similar reactions
Thousands of netizens have trashed the L&T chief suggestion despite the company’s defence of the idea.
Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy, who had raised the bar from 60 hours of work a week in 2020 to 70 hours in 2023, had drawn similar reactions.
Poonawalla’s post was prompted by Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra’s comments made at National Youth Festival in New Delhi on Saturday. He said people often erroneously link his ability to spend time on social media to being lonely.
“I’m on X not because I’m lonely. My wife is wonderful. I love staring at her. People don’t understand how it is an amazing business tool. On one platform, I get feedback from 11 million people,” he said. “If you’re not spending time at home, with friends, reading, if you don’t have time to reflect, how will you bring right inputs into making a decision… you make good decisions if you have a holistic life,” he added.
BigBasket founder and CEO Hari Menon stole the show by re-christening the day as a “stare-day”. He said, “Hope everyone is enjoying their Stareday!”
Many also took to uploading photos to land their humour. One such photo included Mamaearth’s husband-wife founder duo, Varun Alagh and Ghazal Alagh. Ghazal Alagh captioned the photo, “Sundays are for staring. Post yours with #staringsundays.”
Venture capital firm Steadview Capital managing director Puneet Kumar posted a photo of him staring at his wife, with the caption: “Staring at my wife on a Sunday morning after a good workout! What did you do on your Sunday?”
Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal said he was training AI to work like him so that he can find work-life balance. He has often publicly supported Murthy’s clarion call for a 70-hour work week.





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