British bosses get too much time off seems to be the view of India’s Tata which made sure its UK executives were at their desks on Monday, a bank holiday in the country.
A two-day meeting was called by Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata, who last week was critical of the British executives for being used to an “easy” work culture – when compared to the “war-like situation” faced by Indian managers. However, Tata later said he was misquoted.
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The UK has just come through a series of bank holidays, when businesses and education centres closed down for a day, to celebrate Easter, the Royal Wedding [a one-off], May Day and the traditional spring bank holiday.
But during last Monday’s national day off, senior executives at the Birmingham-based Jaguar Land Rover were in a meeting with their Indian bosses.
A spokesman for Tata Motors, which owns JLR, would not say what the meeting was about.
Bank holidays in Britain have been a tradition since 1871.
