After EY Worker's Death, Techie Reveals His Wife's Experience With Company
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The techie said the normalisation and glorification of 18-hour workdays by many multinational companies (MNCs) in India have created a harmful environment for workers.
A Bengaluru-based techie has shared his wife's horrific experience working at Ernst & Young (EY). Aakash Venkatasubramanian explained how his partner quit her job at EY due to the company's "toxic work culture", often demanding 18-hour workdays. Mr Venkatasubramanian's LinkedIn post came days after the death of a 26-year-old EY employee allegedly due to “overwork”.
“My wife quit EY just because of the toxic work culture,” Mr Venkatasubramanian wrote, “and if she had not quit, I don't know what would have happened to her.” He went on to explain that the normalisation and glorification of 18-hour workdays by many multinational companies (MNCs) in India have created a harmful environment for workers.
The techie condemned the disparity in work expectations, saying the same MNCs would not do that outside India. “Indians are being seen as donkeys to offload work to, and India is seen as a huge factory willing to operate 24x7x365,” he wrote in his post.
