On a cumulative account a typical Indian white-collar professional with an undergraduate degree would have spent 2 years of his/her lifetime at school/college and 10 years at workplace.
Nearly 1/5th of such an individual's lifetime is spent confirming to standards,rules and demands of organization.
| ASSUMPTIONS | |
| Education duration: | 18 years (Age group 4-21); |
| Instruction hours per year: | 1000 (Source: World Data on Education, 2011); |
| Employment duration of white-collar employee: | 39 years (Age group 22-60); |
| Working days per year: | 250; |
| Working hours per day: | 9 |