Mumbai, 25 FEB

Joining the debate on working hours, IT services company Capgemini India's chief executive Ashwin Yardi on Tuesday advocated 47.5 hours work per week, and was against sending e-mails to employees on weekends.

He was speaking at Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum (NTLF) here.

"Forty seven and half hours. We have about nine hours a day and five days a week," Yardi said replying to a question on the ideal time to be put in by an employee per week.

"My guiding principle for the last four years is don't send an e-mail on a weekend even if it is an escalation unless you know you can solve it on a weekend," he added.

Acknowledging that sometimes he does work on weekends, Yardi said he desists from sending e-mails to employees, as there is no point just to give "grief" to an employee knowing well that the work cannot be done on a weekend.

It can be noted that IT industry leader and Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy has been pitching for a 70-hour work week, while EPC major Larsen and Toubro's Chairman SN Subrahmanyan called for a 90-hour work week.

Speaking at the same event, nasscom's chairperson Sindhu Gangadharan, who also leads German tech major SAP's India operations, said outcomes should matter more than the work.