Former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant spoke at a Business Standard event. He said that hard work, rather than work-life balance, should be the focus. His comments came weeks after L&T Chairman SN Subrahmanyan said that Indians \”must be willing to work 90 hours every week and even do their job on Sundays\” Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk commented in February that employees at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) work 120 hours a week. He claimed that working on weekends was \”a superpower\”, arguing that DOGE employees were able to win against their bureaucratic opponents since they only worked 40 hours in a week, he said. The G20 Sherpa said that people should set aside one and a half hours for themselves, and still have 22.5 hours in the day. He appealed to the audience that India must cultivate a similar mindset to reach its goal of becoming a world-class economy. The event was organised by Business Standard.
