Avi Arya argues India copied America's 9-to-5 schedule without considering local economics, where continuous effort keeps projects alive. Younger workers now demand hybrid work and side hustles, caught between imported hustle culture and the reality of a poorer country.
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The conversation that I have with myself is that a lot of us follow in India American concepts, right? And they don't work 100%. You can't copy-paste. One of the things that I have a problem with is that 9 to 5. I think we are a poor country, we have to work very hard. 9 to 5, no entrepreneur, no employee, you know. So we have to understand like that. There are many things that we pick up from overseas and we bring it here and we say, okay, this kind of a weekend, this kind of a long weekend, this The thing is when the rocket is going to ship you cannot keep on taking breaks, I'm talking about myself.
The bigger challenge here is not the 9-5, it's a generational change after COVID, right, it is I don't want a 9-5, I want hybrid, I want work from home, I want to do a second job, I need a second hustle and especially when you have some of the biggest world influencers talking about the hustle culture, don't sleep in the afternoon, sleep when you grow old. Now you're challenging, now these are young malleable minds that want to follow the American culture of hustle. At the same time, they want hybrid, they want to work from home. Where is the growth? Where is the path for success that you've kind of taken? After you've reached a particular phase, now you can say I can sleep in the afternoon.