Wipro’s executive chairman Rishad Premji said work-life balance is “incredibly important” and that he believes the hybrid work model helps workforce, The Economic Times reported.
“I learned this very early on in my early days before Covid, which is work life is something that you have to define for yourself, organizations are never going to work at it for you.” the ET report quoted Rishad Premji as saying in a fireside chat on the first day of the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2024. “So you have to define what it means and draw boundaries.”
Rishad Premji’s statement comes at a time when Narayana Murthy, the founder of Infosys, promoted and reiterated his belief in the 70-hour work-week, stating he doesn’t believe in the concept of ‘work-life balance’.
Narayana even expressed disappointment over India shifting from a six-day workweek to a five-day workweek in 1986.
Rishad Premji meanwhile, elaborated that the concept of work-life in itself has changed dramatically as earlier it would have meant the time one came and left the office, but today, it may even be not to take away the “Instagram access at work.”