'CEOs want us to work weekends without overtime. Don’t we ask the same of our cooks, cleaners?'

[@gamechangernil]

Our house help and other support staffs are very much aware of their rights. Any extra work- extra pay. They don't attend calls if they decide to take a leave. They take leave without prior information. They take leaves with no definite date of return. They don't entertain any harsh language. If you have a problem with them, they argue back and leave the job.

[@maggiemaynard6199]

Very true

[@PriyaK-cu1fz]

Exactly

[@rithikarajendran8940]

Not only do they leave the job, but they also dissuade other maids in the locality from taking up the job they have left. So the employer ends up losing the bargain, whatsoever

[@Him-hk2yz]

Excellent. How much does your household help earn ? How much do you earn ?

[@PriyaK-cu1fz]

@@Him-hk2yz my housemaid earns about 70,000 combined. Also on diwali she demands for salary on salary which means double the amount of her actual salary. Takes leaves on her whim. Are you comparing a maids work to actual work for which people spent a quarter of there life studing?

[@ajeebdastan1152]

No, there is no hypocrisy. Print is making a fool of itself. Our house help or cook works for only 1 to 2 hours every day atleast at our house. For a little extra, they ask extra. Nai tou nai karenge 🙄

[@Poornima-f3i]

Same

[@cimarrondrive31]

No we don’t. Usually semi-skilled jobs get paid hourly - so they get compensated for working more. Cooks and cleaners spend no more than 30 minutes per house. So if they are working more hours, it’s only because they are choosing to work at more homes to make more

[@goodsong_views]

What if they were paid the due for the 30 minutes they worked and given say a weekly off?

[@soloman8692]

​​​​@@goodsong_viewsare most household who are employing these maids getting themselves paid aptly? Also does the middle class professionals have the flexibility to work for multiple company as the maids do....as far as I know most companies in their joining letter mandated no moonlighting. Does the maid need to pay any tax? Does the middle takes any freebees which the maids take? When was the last time did you see the middle class going to government hospitals. It's a mindset, many people thinking themselves as middle class spend much more and has meager saving and the maid family thinking themselves as poor every member works and spends less take government provided healthcare and freebees and have more savings.

[@indianskeptic3451]

Does creating a humane society mean nothing to you?

[@soloman8692]

​​​@@indianskeptic3451yes that is in an ideal scenario. But if you analyse the whole Indian system is designed in such a way so that there are loopholes and can punish who are empathetic and law abiding. So even if you want to be humane you cannot be

[@goodsong_views]

@@soloman8692 Do you mean that you further the exploitation? Exactly what the video argues is that somewhere, the people complaining against all these 90-hour things, etc., are also the ones expecting the same, just from a lower strata. Does the maid's income even reach the taxable bracket? I think corporate employees get freebies and benefits from their work; maids get none! So why does a middle-class person not go to the government hospital? He is not barred from there. If a corporate manager treats the employee like a slave, there are at least a few avenues to express it, there are special departments, awareness of the law, ability to read write etc. I know that in many houses, maids are not allowed to use the toilets in the houses where they work, sit on the sofas, or beds, use the utensils they clean etc! C'mon, we have to see that this is not ok!

[@anmolsekhani]

No we don't make them work like we work.

[@DCM2463]

You are talking about the wealthy people who employ domestic help. The middle class people cannot afford full time maid or cooks. They are able to pay maids and cooks for part-time service if at all. Most do their own work in the house like a balancing act. Domestic help and cooks work part-time very often and are paid well. They may not show up on days and there is no consequence. They work in various houses and they decide if they want to work for you or not. Nobody is bound by a contract as far as domestic help is concerned. So stop comparing corporate office workers with domestic help. The government of India is responsible for protecting the rights of domestic workers ensuring a minimum wage and work hours. I suggest you address the Politicians and those in authority to take a look at the working class and other labour class rights and ensure justice for all.

[@ritapandey5]

After spending 50L+ on my education and paying taxes to the government this is the respect we are getting in India, being compared with cooks and maids.

[@VK-no5kj]

20 years back i saw in many middle calss and upper class households - servants were exploited for long hours with no holidays. Today it is different. Domestic helps are queens

[@dronzer23]

Although they are not privileged, but in cities they hardly work 6 hours a day with one day off in week. So that makes it 36 hours.

[@aruneetas]

I agree

[@Poornima-f3i]

Not everyone exploits.

[@vaishnavivaish2554]

No we don't they're at least free on festivals and work only for a few hours and then they leave. Unlike employees of toxic organizations

[@mitalighosh5011]

Why do I feel that Print has now started buttering the government? Narayan Murti did it and got a seat in the Rajya Sabha for his wife. Subramanian is also planning something similar and now this journalist from Print! Has this lady ever objected to the multiple taxes that we as the Middle class pay? The research that she has done seems biased. Has she ever noticed how much maids take advantage of working mothers or working women in particular? She should do some research on a case in Bangalore, where the maid (who was appointed to take care of the baby) would take that baby out to beg!!

[@pranoys5404]

My cooks went on 3 month leave. Take every Sunday off. 😂 May be these harassoxic cultures for cooks are happening in very high class society or toxic society

[@SV-wu2my]

Narayana Murthy is calling everyone to work 70 hours to improve India's growth. Instead, does he not think that to meet the demand, he can add 3 more employees for every 4 employees allowing 7 employees giving 280 hours per week instead of asking 4 employees to provide that hours. At least it will reduce a bit of unemployed numbers in society.

[@vany697]

My maid works for 30 hours a month 😂. She buys 3 lehengas for ₹10,000 each. Has land and property also in her own name. Even I can't afford to spend that much money.

[@monica6396]

I dont think this is true. Help person comes to my home work 10 mins a day. and she comes 3 to 4 times a months. she makes 10 times more than i make in an hour. i pay her 1300 to 1600 a month. i know domestic workers who work like 1 to 2 hour a day and get 10k per month in chennai. auto drivers make more than what i make in an hour. i dont understand this argument. gaslighting that middle class ppl are bad to ppl who are less privileged to shift the focus from the comments of these cruel ceo and chairmen. looks like the person arguing is neither middle class nor someone who is doing domestic work ... 🤦🤦 we are fighting for weekend while the person talking in this video may be spending their vacation outside india.

[@roshanpatrao676]

Is she justifying Subramanian's rant? What she speaks of may be present, but not to the extent she would like us believe.

[@hemikovsky]

Working Over 40 hours is not a sustainable development. We must also drop the word productivity! It's as vague as ever!

[@kandasamynagarajan3824]

Will we get Income tax exemption What will be the hike in salary to sacrice the family happiness Options may be given to people who like to follow to check their growth in the nearest future Compensation to family for over work not discussed

[@jonswap9097]

This is unsustainable. India will end up like China, S. Korea, and Japan with a collapsing economy and an ageing population which it is unable to support in 40 years if this is allowed to happen. Already the practice in China of firing women working in phone factories if they get married or have children is being attempted in India. To have children and bring them up to be well adjusted members of ghe next generation requires good and affordable housing and food, and above all time spent with them by their parents. If you do not put this time in, you end up with maladjusted teens, lots of crime, drug taking, teenage pregnancies and anti-social behaviour as has been demonstrated in the West. India has a huge number of graduates and school leavers who are looking for jobs. Why is Murthy not employing double the number of staff on 40 hours per week instead? That would ensure higher productivity for the company due to that overworked people produce poorer quality work and are less productive. In addition that would give the company the ability to engage staff in paid voluntary overtime to handle surges in work. Thd real reason why Murthy is proposing this inefficient and unproductive practice is because he does not want to pay for training of staff. This is what makes Indian labour unproductive. The government of India should make sure the standard hours is 40 hrs, and ensure that part time work and taking time out of work is available and fair treatment of those who pick ghis option is dnforced, especially for women. Also the government should run and enforced training certified training schemes for various professions and trades on employers, to ensure cheapskates like Murthy cannot use long hours as a way of avoiding improvements in staff productivity.

[@thunderbolt854]

This woke counter argument can be easily turned around and probably a prob of you who think you are intellectuals because you can talk western accent and badly at that: 1. 6 homes you stress . Take a vessel washing lady. She is doing dishes at 1 hr per home at 6 houses. Are you going to employ her for 6 hours at a place ? In western countries a union exists who employ them as full time workers with top of the line pay. Are you willing to pay for such high cost? No because there is always someone else in india who will do it for less, not so much these days. 2. Worker at home does a task and its done. In corporate you are never done not on weekend not on other days. Its mot about who works hardest or equalizing the two job roles but a question of stress and disengagement from work. What garbage argument is this that arguing two wrongs make one of them right? What are you trying to convey here ?

[@TheStoicPlayer64]

The maid we have for cook works 1 hr (half an hour for lunch and dinner) and the cleaning lady that comes works half an hour only. I don't know if they work elsewhere. But yeah for couple of hours work considering 60 (being generous if someone works on Sunday as well with no leave) hours a month I pay them good amount. It is they who have choose to work at multiple houses and not me. I would expect them to come on Saturday (Sunday is leave) to work at least half an hour for what I am paying them for. They don't work 8-10 hours each day for me every day. LOL. Stop comparing in this bullshit way. This is the worst way of comparing someone with different field and qualification. It is their choice to work at multiple houses to meet the ends. I don't exploit them. You should ask the CEO if their maid works 90 hours a week LOL. What CEO said is against the will of employees. The maids if they work at multiple houses they work due to their choice or circumstances. Remember their is difference between working by our own will and being getting worked against our own will!!

[@wanderlost7707]

What world is she talking about? Most IT professionals can just about afford a maid who comes in for an hour, and the luckier ones a cook, who again comes in for an hour. It's only the rich whose help stays for several hours a day or live in.

[@GOPAL.KRISHNA.11]

Maid, security guard , assistants in CA office, 2nd party engineers in IT & construction. Specially last two - work more than 90 hours.

[@Aditya18893]

In which world this lady lives in I don’t understand nowadays an average Indian don’t behave that rudely with their domestic helps not even in metro city

[@JasbirKaur-s7q]

Maids and servants are mostly ill treated by the well placed, economically well placed people.

[@shreyagupta7076]

Well our house help gets Sundays off , no question asked sick days holidays on festivals and works 30-35 hours every week total across all houses not more than 30 mins every house .I think she is farely compensated .

[@PiyushSingh-bp5es]

Our house helps exist, shouldn't that beckon the question why do they exist in the first place, such cheap labour, and such a work?

[@soloman8692]

No I am sorry my cook has themselves decided they will cook within 1hr and maid will complete within 30min additionally take all benifits given by the gov. I will even tell to the extent that many maid family has a higher savings than many so called middle class. It's a mindset, people thinking themselves as middle class spend much more and has meager saving and the maid family thinking themselves as poor every member works and spends less take government provided healthcare and freebees and have more savings. Additionally they also have the option to choose to take more jobs or less job. However the middle class is stuck on one job. Also most companies have by their policy banned moonlighting which you will sign before joining the company.

[@sakshambhadoria9998]

Caregivers and household workers are under appreciated and their contribution is ignored. Their emotional and physical support pales in comparison to monetary gains.

[@acharyashastri7438]

Household staff are street smart and have good instincts. 'If you pay me Rs. 2000 a month I will work 2 hours a day. I need Rs. 10,000 a month to meet my expenses. and I work 4 houses to make that money. take it or leave it.' Thats an example. Power to them.

[@nuranichandra2177]

They should mandate 35 hour work week with pay to performance. OT compensation should be compulsory.

[@VandeAkhandaBharatam]

I'm sorry but blue collar jobs are different from white collar ones. Yes the cooks and cleaners working on weekends have to demand a bonus for their extra work as must thr white collar job holders for their OT but be that as it may comparing them both is not a smart thing

[@dipanjan_roy]

My startup used to make me work for 14-16 hours while paying me 12k per month. In Bangalore, I was unable to survive with PG food and health got ruined with eating outside everyday. Me and my friend decided to get a cheap flat together and hire a cook. He charged 6k per month for coming two times a day. He literally demanded for good cookware so that he could cook fast and go to his other place. He would only cook 1 sabzi and 6 rotis and stayed a maximum for 20 mins. Sunday off. After a while, he started taking sick leaves. Yes, my parents might have exploited the maids somewhat during their time in small towns and villages. But its more complicated than that. But we staying in cities far away from our parents. We are doomed. The rents are abysmal and foul play from landlords to chase us away within months, to match the market demand. Bro what are you guys smoking? I'm literally on the verge of suicide.

[@djdarbary]

"Patriotism is the last refuge for a scoundrel" Dr. Samuel Johnson🍀

[@Aditav8680]

This same person will not have the courage to tell anything to his maid! Just understand the situation of middle class

[@ramasarkahc6781]

No. You are wrong. The maids get weekly off and other leaves and they exploit our weakness of dependence on them and often threaten.to simply leave if the whims and.demands are.not attended. The work hours are.also less.

[@expt22]

If working overtime is professional, then paying appropriately for overtime is also professional and ethical. Having work-life balance goes a long way. All work and no personal time can lead to imbalances in societies. Case in point,Japan.

[@vichu000]

Brilliant argument... This is nature of human.. To exploit nature, animals and finally other humans...

[@pradipkumarmitra7412]

The media staff should get salaries at minimum of Central Government Pay. The owners and so-called senior ones should not huge sums by depriving others.

[@nikhilsahay895]

Okay Arundhati Roy ! Dismissing the trolling of L&T as just because it is threatening our privilege? An L&T Engineer working on construction site for 12 hours straight at 5 lakh per annum salary is a privilege? No Arundhati, its not Bandra upscale aunty trolling L&T, its just regular middle class. Sure Editor wanted to bring to fore domestic help conditions. She took wrong angle to bring it up. I think she is largely coming from upscale Bandra angle because it is convenient that way as the privilege is starkly visible. Middle class is just trying to make best out of the wallet they have, they pay less to domestic help because they can not afford any better. And No middle class society has privilege of banning workers from using lift. yes they will complaint about it that it smells in morning as garbage collectors use the lift but they would not ban. Its purely upscale thing !! All her examples are Bandra and Gurgaon.

[@sayandebghosh2681]

My domestic help charges extra time and abuses us that if we don't give her extra bucks she will join another house.😢

[@anandsharma7430]

Good point. Needs to be made. In different areas of a given city, the rights of domestic workers might be different, with varying degrees of freedoms / restrictions, but the essential hypocrisy is undeniable. Weekly holidays are very rare, monthly holidays are not fixed, and timings are fixed only for assertive maids. That Diwali bonus thing is very real. Jumping jobs is not as easy as for certain professions. The point about written contracts is a bit superfluous because too many maids are not interested in paperwork themselves. The biggest issue though, is how we treat them - we take them for granted and often order them around. Magic words - Please, Thank you, Sorry, Welcome - are out of question, at least between women (boss and maid). Young boys generally treat maids with respect because they are non-functioning adults as far as homemaking goes. They have the right to their informal unions and rejection, as they exercise increasingly in cities. There is also the issue of caste discrimination, and segregation of utensils and "impure" branding due to pure veg / non-veg.

[@Rahul-cx9qu]

Absolutely correct. We are hypocrite.

[@rishabhsingh7826]

Not "we" but only you and people like you are hypocrite . Meri maid to sirf 30-40 minutes kaam karti hai mere yaha v aur locality me 4-5 aur gharo me.

[@cyberfan1]

From many of the previous comments, it is clear how easy it is to delude ourselves of our “fair” treatment of our house help. Yes, there may be a small minority of households that treat their help fairly. The majority are consciously or unconsciously exploitative. Years ago, when I moved to Delhi and was looking for house help, a work colleague gave this ‘helpful’ tip: “you are not from here so you don’t know the wiley ways of these servants. You must treat them like animals. That is the only language they understand”. 😱

[@anonymous_m2925]

What an excellent analysis. Indeed every human is somewhat hypocritical on some level

[@prashantd9964]

Justice for maids too. People are noy hyporcrite. Also i give my maids leaves whenever they want. Also they dont work solely for us, they work in multiple homes.

[@monishasekar4716]

My domestic help charges 1800 for dishes 2500 for brooming and mopping plus 1 month salary plus saree plus sweets for diwali bonus. Sunday compulsory holiday. Monthly 2 to 3 days uninformed leave with no salary deduction😂 She did only dishes in our house which took her 20 to 30 mins of her valuable time. In my city no one are ready for bathroom cleaning even for elders. We have to hire urban company for that😂

[@sharathahuja8261]

Please read E F Schumacher's book-Small is Beautiful-Economics as if people mattered.

[@alvinvazha1144]

Excellent reporting showing the hypocrisy and classism that exist in our culture.

[@nickfurry5515]

Excellent, the Print 🙏👏

[@A8-Wolverine]

They have fixed 9-5 work.

[@nikhilverma3102]

Excellent viewpoint. Agree fully.

[@kandasamynagarajan3824]

If the CEOs planning goes wrong even if u work for 90 hrs u will not be benefitted . The that CEO will get alternative job and leave the co We have seen many such CEOs spoiling companies

[@nimeshmarker]

Excellent reporting!! Toxic office work culture flows into toxic relationships and toxic society at large. Unfortunately the spouse/children and largely the domestic help who bears the brunt of this toxicity. Shameful how people who have two rupees treat people who have one rupee.

[@Apache1970]

Shameful that you are generalising. Not everyone is the same.

[@bvscar]

Very practical headline... same goes in all our minds...

[@PraveenKumar-lx9hi]

Cook and cleaner physical pain...but IT is mental stress

[@AnilGoodone]

IT'S A MIND GAME TO SUPPRESS BANKERS' NEW DEMAND OF 5 DAYS' WEEK😉

[@kghello]

Lol cleaners works for 1hr to 1.5hr a day for 7 day. Which makes a total working hour between 7-10.5 hr.

[@chandrasivakumar7151]

Domestic helps and cooks get monthly three days off, officiaaly.

[@SV-wu2my]

When you get paid by PR agency, you rant with counter point so that the main 90 hours issue is forgotten. How much money The Print got to put this counter argument? Wokeism starts right here.

[@sadenb]

I don't know who uses cleaners anymore in the age of washer dryers.

[@premdeepGodara]

Very insightful video Great job

[@SushmaVivek-xq4nv]

Pay us overtime then

[@rajnidhar1026]

Maids etc don't work 90 hrs they work in at least so many houses by choice

[@amankhare9011]

It seems you are not exposed to the realities of the employee, house help and maids are in much better position.

[@udaymukherji4527]

Sadly everything you say is true, and sadly there's no light visible at the end of the tunnel

[@tomsinghji]

Well said

[@Sahilisonline]

Agree with everything, now drop that skin care routine 😂

[@KunalKMehta08]

Who knew watching a mirror can be such a harrowing experience. Longest 9 minutes of my life.

[@easypeasyenglish1331]

Excellent critique!

[@thecomment9489]

Previously we had a house help and only worked for about 35 minutes a day or something. Duh.

[@supratiksarkar3150]

Very good point.

[@sanj15246]

Pata nahi ye madam konse jamane ki hain 😂...she clearly doesn't know how househelps are treated these days!

[@ansh_u_r]

Are we going into medieval slavery???

[@string1234-ep8fk]

Right!

[@spaceanthariksham2408]

ya they should get compensation through a freebie scheme from government for having born in a situations where they have to work so much to earn money . but they dont seem to be like a fimly sad face shown in the video - they drink . they play . the business asusal . but if someone is keeping someone hostage to work - i mean i dont know what kinda pleasure it is i thought those physco oldie gen already out of earth - so if still such practices happen it needs attention - government can increase freebies [ i understand as they are more majority people who are poor make sense [ - so there is the answer - solved

[@goutammohanty6679]

This is the rubbish thinking of some Old Bosses. Please understand, which one is more efficient and better?? ....... Passenger Trains or Bullet Trains ??

[@amitabhgogoi8925]

Your logic is flawed and you are making an argument based on hasty generalization, ad hominem.

[@udayapriya4877]

Ridiculous content.Not worth any serious thought

[@khuzaimahaji5706]

One of the best videos of "The Print" I have watched!

[@sumanneogi2679]

This up scale society was not occupied by corporate employee please understand with 3lakh per month salary also they can't afford to live there

[@architjoshi2417]

Very thoughtful

[@adityaaima3302]

No we don’t 😂

[@Northcountry1926]

⭐️⭐️🫡⭐️⭐️

[@babarazam1165]

40 hrs is less 50 hrs is perfect 👍 10 hrs a day weekend off

[@jpatel2002]

Babar Azam bhai apko to 100 hours kaam karna chahiye, warna picche reh jaoge cricket me... 😂😂

[@amitsaha9436]

So do they actually do that. They have more nakhare than the CEO at least that is the case in metro cities😂😂😂

[@goodsong_views]

No benefits, no official holidays! It is hard on them.

[@amitsaha9436]

@goodsong_views They get free rations free light free everything so the they have a tendency nowadays to not work . How many leaves they take 4 atleast

[@sumanneogi2679]

Sorry my parents had helps they come and cook similarly their is a cleaner too and both don't get weekly off but if they don't come usually they had remain hungry or someone to get food from hotel if someone help