Whether all that was stated in the article is true is a matter for conjecture. Bezos denies it, but knowing the sort of work culture that now exists in the United States, I suspect much of it is true.
I don't know about India, other than what I read here on CiteHR - and as many of you have noted from my postings, some of what I read about work culture there, frankly horrifies me.
In the western world at least, the world of work has changed a lot. The standard 8 hour day, seems to have gone out the window. People are working longer, becoming more stressed, have no holidays, end up in the divorce court, and finally in the cardiac unit of the local hospital. Is that what we want for our future?
It seems to me that "bosses" can spend any amount of time out on the golf course, or cruising in their yachts, free from the cares of the world, while their employees must keep their mobile phones on at all times of day and night, and woe betide anyone who does not reply to an email or text at 3.30am in the morning.
If your business needs to run 24/7, then you staff appropriately, with 3 8-hour shifts to cover the day. Staff function much better when they are rested, refreshed, and alert. Such staff will be happy to come to work, will devote their energies to work, be creative when it comes to problem solving etc, and above all will contribute greatly to the bottom line.
Of course there will be workaholics and others who embrace this workstyle. Maybe they have a bad homelife they want to escape from, ie the wife and kids, or are lonely, or just have no life full stop. The graveyards are full of those sort of people.
You have to decide what sort of life you want. I am now retired thank goodness, but I would never work like that anyway. When I was at work, I worked my standard day, AND I completed all my work within that day. I rarely ever worked a minute past my my elected finishing time. However, if necessary, I was willing to stay back if we had an important project to complete, and we were almost there.
The secret of course is finding more efficient ways to work. Something that was lost of many of my colleagues who were in the office already when I arrived, and were still there when I went home! Another thing was the way many of them fought me tooth and nail when I wanted to introduce new more efficient procedures. I could never work out why!