‘My spouse is great, I really like gazing her’: Anand Mahindra on his social media actions

Anand Mahindra, Chairperson of Mahindra Group, took a jibe at Larsen & Toubro’s (L&T) Chairman SN Subrahmanyan’s “90-hour workweek” touch upon Saturday, saying that the emphasis ought to be on the standard of labor and never on the amount of labor.

In a dialog with Firstpost’s Managing Editor Palki Sharma on the Viksit Bharat Younger Leaders Dialogue 2025, Mahindra talked about how he manages his time to take care of a powerful presence on social media.

He stated, “I typically get requested how a lot time I’ve to spend on social media. I need to inform people who I’m on X or social media not as a result of I’m lonely. My spouse is great, I really like gazing her. So, I’m not right here to make associates, I’m right here as a result of social media is an incredible enterprise instrument.”

“My spouse is great, I really like gazing her”, Mahindra Group Chairman @anandmahindra tells Firstpost Managing Editor @palkisu at Viksit Bharat Younger Leaders Dialogue.#VBYLD2025 pic.twitter.com/6fYKgC80rW

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Earlier this week, Subrahmanyan stirred controversy by suggesting staff ought to work 90 hours per week, together with on Sundays. “What do you do sitting at residence? How lengthy are you able to stare at your spouse? How lengthy can wives stare at their husbands? Go to the workplace and begin working,” the L&T chairperson stated.

‘Ought to concentrate on high quality of labor’

Giving two cents on the lengthy workhour debate that has stored netizens busy, and has been supported by Infosys co-founder Narayan Murthy, Mahindra stated, “I feel this debate is within the mistaken route as a result of it’s amount of labor. My level is it ought to about concerning the high quality of labor. It’s not about 40 hours or 90 hours, what output are you doing even whether it is 10 hours?”

“In case you are not spending time at residence or with associates and if you’re not studying and don’t have time to mirror, how will you deliver the inputs into making the proper selections?” he added.

“This debate is of amount of labor, my level is we’ve got to concentrate on the standard of labor,” Mahindra Group Chairman @anandmahindra tells Firstpost Managing Editor @palkisu at Viksit Bharat Younger Leaders Dialogue.#VBYLD2025 pic.twitter.com/0cKv06mBB3

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He additional stated that one can solely make good selections after they have a holistic life and that “individuals can’t be in a tunnel on a regular basis.”