Working Hours - a long pending question to be answered by our Construction Industry Tycoons

This is a long pending question unanswered by the tycoons of construction Industry. Sometimes we feel amazed on the instance of this question -

"What long working hours? Who cares? If we have to live we have to work! Isn't it?"

Same answer from all those who are afraid of talking on this issue.

Afraid of? What is the fear? No not only loosing the job. Then?

The fear of getting harrased by the immediate boss who himself in most of the cases is an employee.

Harrasment? Why? Is the person in the centre of discussion do not perform well?

No, that is not the case. Then? Actually the boss feels that if the person will get time to think or enjoy the family then he or she will start looking for a new job or in another instance may ask for betterment in some kind.

I don't think that if a person is contributing towards the betterment of the organization he or she is eligible to be benefitted at the same time.

Another voice (of another employee came) - This sounds like socialized culture. Not acceptable in today's world. If you have to survive you have to be physically present there or else you are not required.

Oh my gosh! what a thought process. I can remember example of Japan where people used to be workahlcolic and today they are suffering. But who cares if there population is going in negative, they have already exhusted there resources, and now there companies are going bankrupt.

But what does working hours has got to do with bankrupcy?

Nothing much just people tend to produce more than its consumption and the demand goes down very fast and the net result is companies tries to venture out in new dimesnions for their survival, generally they end up creating unnecessary competion and then start selling goods at the cost even lower than its actual cost.

So!

So, simple they die a death of bankrupcy.

So do you mean that proper working hours will avoid the recession?

Yes certainly.

How?

You work only that much as much is required. If you require more and you have more manpower then deploy them. Cost of manpower as overheads is less than 2% of the total cost in construction projects generally. So adding little more workforce shall not harm you. But at the same time just take care of the optimum utilization and ensure that team shall not sit idle.

Still the question of unnecessary working hours remained there. We tend to get diverted on this issue are afraid of getting......

Still we should think if we want a healthy future and a healthy nation. Let our tycoons start thinking that what ever they write on the paper also gets transfered into reality.

May be if we do some soul searching we may find the reason of over working hours in the case of DMRC's accidents or the accidents of other construction project.

Its not that business owners are least concerned about the families of our workers they are even worse while creating an amicable working atmosphere, workers are exposed to unsafe working conditions even after bigger claims from the corporates:

Hope once again for a better future where boss's will not be afraid of working hours but will be afraid of loosing a good human and his family. Hope that we can look into the rising divorce cases and retarding health and reduction in longivity.