'One must find balance': TCS CEO on L&T Chairman's 90-hour workweek remark

'When there is something going live on a Monday, you will work on a Sunday. But there are times when you don't work on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday also because there is not much work or you work the previous week,' Krithivasan said.

The Managing Director and CEO of TCS, K Krithivasan, reacted to L&T Chairman S N Subrahmanyan's call for a 90-hour work-week, stating that his words might have been taken out of context and that employees must strive to find work-life balance.

Speaking to Business Today (BT), he said, "There are weeks I work 60 hours, there are weeks that I work only 40 hours. I think over a period of time you find your own balance and you become happy."

When questioned on about Subrahmanyan's suggestion to work Sundays, he told BT, "Don't take whatever he said out of context. Because I was not there, you were not there when he said that. Taking something out of context is unfair to them. But if you take our work, the way we all grew up, there are times we worked on Sundays. When there is something going live on a Monday, you will work on a Sunday. But there are times when you don't work on Thursday, Friday, Saturday also because there is not much of work or you work the previous week."

"So as I said work-life balance is something that what you find is most comfortable to you and sometimes what the situation demands. And nobody's going to be asked to work for Sundays for years together. We are blowing these things out of proportion. When people say something we have to take the context on what they intend to say. They are people that have achieved so much and don't disregard what they have done," he added.

On the attitude of the upcoming generation on work-life balance, he said," "They (youth) put in their best effort.... We have to see the spirit of what they said. We're just getting into meme war and memefest. That's not doing justice to the veterans and what they have achieved over the years. I think you take the spirit - they are saying that we need to work sincerely like put in all the best effort."