"Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality"
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The subtext is a quiet critique of copy-pasting global service promises onto local realities. "No 24x7 mentality" sounds like a cultural jab, but the sentence structure suggests the opposite: mentality follows incentives. When most service sectors - retail, repairs, healthcare-adjacent support, logistics back ends - are optimized for predictable, daytime demand, the ecosystem never normalizes late-night response times or redundant coverage. That, in turn, shapes what customers tolerate, what workers accept, and what managers plan for.
Contextually, it echoes the story of India’s BPO and IT boom: a few export-facing pockets learned 24x7 because American and European clients required it, while large parts of the domestic economy stayed diurnal. Kumar is arguing that "always-on" is not a vibe; it’s a supply chain. Until the boring stuff becomes 24x7 - staffing depth, escalation paths, maintenance, payments, last-mile logistics - the mentality will remain exactly what the system has trained it to be.
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Kumar, Sanjay. (2026, January 16). Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/few-service-industries-are-designed-to-be-24x7-in-129282/
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Kumar, Sanjay. "Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/few-service-industries-are-designed-to-be-24x7-in-129282/.
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"Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/few-service-industries-are-designed-to-be-24x7-in-129282/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.






