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When I saw the screenshots of this article, it reminded me how much stress my indian colleagues were dealing with, a year ago. We have worked some time together
by whizzkid 12y ago
When I saw the screenshots of this article, it reminded me how much stress my indian colleagues were dealing with, a year ago.
We have worked some time together on a project with Indian people (still friends with them, awesome people) and the way they explained their working environment was not really appealing at all unfortunately.
They were indirectly forced to worked more than eight hours a day (around 9 to 10), and was required to report everyday to their managers about the progress done during the day in a stylesheet. Their managers were trying cut off financially as much as they can to save some more money in the department so that managers can get extra money at the end of year depending on the savings.
This caused employees more stress, more work, less comfort and less time with family. Since there are already a lot of people waiting to get job out there, they did not have much choice but accept the companies' rules..
I am hoping for a more trust oriented employer-employee relationships for my indian fellows..
- giis 12y agoYou are spot on. As an Indian I can confirm this behavior. Managers consider people as "resource" and treat them as "slave" (not an exaggeration). I hear lot of my friends use this exact word (slave) and I by myself felt the same way. They ask people to work for 10-12 hrs. (During 2007/2008 recession, companies like infosys/tcs increased working hours -8 hrs to 9 hrs -, even today, its the same hours). Unless you are close to the manager (do some shoe-licking), working on Indian IT services is a hell,if you have conscience.