India, July 27 -- Gen Z concerns are sneaking into spaces they have no business being in. Like, in India's cabinet secretary's letter on work culture and allied matters to his younger colleagues posted across the country. By talking about mundane routine work, behavioural shifts, and the need for introspection, Dr TV Somanathan has made an attempt to encourage Indian bureaucracy to break the mould of fossilized attitudes, many inherited from the colonial system. And he has begun this process by taking on the dreaded M word. Meetings. Even the seniormost bureaucrat of this country clearly shares the Gen Z disdain for "overstretched" and "directionless" meetings.

According to a recent survey, Indian employees spend nearly nine hours per we...