Former Infosys CEO and Chairman of Manipal Global Education TV Mohandas Pai blamed the 'neglect' of the successive Karnataka governments for this potential shift.
Murthy stressed the need to create 2,500 institutions to train primary and secondary school teachers by spending $20 billion over the next two decades. For this, he suggested inviting 10,000 retired highly accomplished teachers from over the globe and India.
Endorsing Narayana Murthy's advice, lawyer-politician Manish Tewari said that several public representatives like him work 12-15 hours a day without taking a day off.
Narayana Murthy's proposed 70-hour workweek typically translates to 12-hour shifts for a six-day work week or a 14-hour shift for a five-day work week.
Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy will inaugurate the newly constructed Adarapu building complex, Larus Labs, EUGIA Sterils Pvt Ltd company at Jawaharlal Nehru Pharma city and will interact with the employees.
The stock of the company declined 2.24 per cent to end at Rs 1,431.80 apiece on the BSE, emerging as one of the biggest laggards among the Sensex shares.
On the return-to-office approach, Infosys CEO Salil Parekh said the number of employees coming back to workspace is on the rise but asserted, in the same breath, that the company intends to maintain flexibility in its approach.
The 30-share BSE Sensex fell 610.37 points or 0.92 per cent to settle at 65,508.32. During the day, it plunged 695.3 points or 1.05 per cent to 65,423.39
The development follows expansion of collaboration between Infosys and chipset company NVIDIA to provide generative AI-based solutions to enterprises worldwide.