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There is a number that Indian IT companies increasingly like to talk about: revenue per employee. It is a useful number because it tells us how much money a company is generating from every person on its payroll. And right now, that number is rising across the country’s biggest IT services companies.

When people brag about being “so productive” because they get up before 5 a.m., is this true or are they simply performing discipline? In a thread on r/productivity, redditors are debating this modern mystery. The conversation kicked off when one person noticed that their early-bird colleague was visibly fading by 2 p.m. every day at…

The nine-to-five PhD is an ever-elusive goal: many candidates aspire to it but few end up achieving such an impressive work–life balance. Nature’s 2025 global PhD survey found that 50% of respondents, who were self-selecting, identified a culture of long work hours at their university. This fuels dissatisfaction, and those who spent more than 60…