Bhavish Aggarwal, the co-founder of Ola, explained why he doesn’t “agree with this work-life balance concept”.
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00:00I work 20 hours a day, seven days a week.
00:02Wow.
00:02So 140 hours.
00:04You are Sudha Moorthy's dream.
00:07Narayan Moorthy's dream.
00:08It's the same with you.
00:09I'm guessing that you don't believe in this weekend concept that people can't reach you on a weekend.
00:14Not at all.
00:15Right.
00:15And the younger generation today, I feel wants a little bit of what I don't agree with this work life balance concept.
00:23Because if you are enjoying your work, you will actually find happiness in life also and work also.
00:28And the both will be in harmony.
00:55Family is very critical in that.
00:56So my wife actually, she, you know, I work 20 hours a day, seven days a week.
01:01Wow.
01:02So 140 hours.
01:03You are Sudha Moorthy's dream.
01:06Narayan Moorthy's dream.
01:07Narayan Moorthy's dream.
01:08Sorry, sorry about that.
01:09Yeah.
01:09Yeah.
01:09Narayan Moorthy's dream.
01:10But you know, I also feel like...
01:12We will get to that in the comment section.
01:15Everyone will say that this is what he expects everybody in the organisation to do.
01:19That is an unfortunate thing, I feel.
01:21Because when Mr. Moorthy said that publicly, I was publicly in support.
01:25And I got trolled on social media because of that.
01:28But I don't care.
01:29Because I have a very strong belief that a generation will have to do penance.
01:33And our parents did penance of a different level.
01:35The generation of our parents, the generation of our grandfathers gave us freedom.
01:39Yes.
01:40The generation of our parents built a house.
01:42So we got a strong foundation.
01:43We didn't have to struggle for the basics in life.
01:46We had a middle class life.
01:47Most of us, we didn't have to struggle for basics.
01:49We didn't have to struggle for bread and butter.
01:51But our generation will have to do penance so that we can build the world class,
01:56the number one country in the world we dream to build, right?
02:00Largest economy.
02:01And you know, also, I don't think India's journey is just economic resurgence.
02:06India's journey is economic, number one, combined with a cultural renaissance.
02:11Because we have a very strong civilizational ethos and a memory of that civilization, right?
02:15And you also don't have, like we in our business,
02:18we don't have a weekend concept.
02:21In the news business, our phones are always available.
02:24We are always there 24-7.
02:26News is always there for us.
02:28So it's the same with you, I'm guessing.
02:30Absolutely.
02:30You don't believe in this weekend concept that people can't reach you on a weekend.
02:34Not at all.
02:35Right.
02:36And the younger generation today, I feel wants a little bit of what I don't agree
02:41with this work-life balance concept, you know, because if you are enjoying your work,
02:46you will actually find happiness in life also and work also.
02:48And the both will be in harmony.
02:50Right.
02:51So that, I believe, is the better end state versus my work is 9 to 5, cut to cut.
02:58When I go home, I'm cut to cut at home.
03:00And I don't think that is something, I think that's an outcome of, again,
03:04a Western thought process of a post-industrial, of the industrial era.
03:08But our ethos was never that.
03:15Right.
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