"As A Father...": EY India Chairman On Employee's Death Due To 'Overwork'

EY India Chairman Rajiv Memani said he was aware that people had commented on some of the company's work practices on social media.

Issuing a statement on the alleged death of a 26-year-old employee because of 'overwork', Ernst & Young (EY) India Chairman Rajiv Memani has said the fact that no one from the company attended the funeral is alien to their culture and that he "would not rest" until the objective of nurturing a harmonious workplace is accomplished. 

Mr Memani also said that, as a father, he could understand the anguish of the woman's mother, who had written a heartbreaking letter to him, and added that he has conveyed his deepest condolences to the family. 

In her letter to Mr Memani, Anita Augustine, the mother of Anna Sebastian Perayil, wrote that her daughter had died four months after joining EY's office in Pune and said the company's culture seemed to glorify overwork while neglecting the human beings behind the role.