„Der Druck wurde ihr zu viel“: Mutter kritisiert EYs Arbeitskultur, nachdem 26-jährige EY-Mitarbeiterin aus Pune an „Arbeitsstress“ stirbt
https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/trends/story/the-pressure-became-too-much-for-her-mother-calls-out-eys-work-culture-after-26-year-old-ey-pune-employee-dies-from-work-stress-446382-2024-09-17#google_vignette
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I am afraid that we will see more and more articles like this. Workplace burnout is real and a lot of employers are trained to see the warning signs.
How awful. 💚
Whatever. If you want to work yourself to death feel free to do so.
Not EY’s fault.
A death in India not involving sexual assault?!?
I wish to make this known globally because I am sad seeing this.
Indian Work Culture is hellish . Almost comparable to Japan/Korea.
This is a very one-sided story.
Sure one person died from exhaustion. But you also have to take in consideration all the profit generated by the hard work of other employees thanks to that demanding work culture. Shareholders pockets won’t fill themselves alone.
I felt the same from my job and was afraid that it will cause death. I was burned out and overwhelmed to the max. I told management and Management just told me “everyone on the team” is doing the same amount of work… and just dismissed my demands. Didn’t care. Was manipulative and toxic. Said one thing and meant another.
Developed anxiety attacks, couldn’t sleep, number of health issues.
F*ck these people. Hope they get what they put out thrown back at them.
You know it’s bad when US Firms are seeking to hire employees in India because they work for less, can be scared into working for free and have less red tape (aka: labor laws). Just one more way for US capitalists to make a buck and screw over the Americans who work(ed) for them and screw over a whole other country of people in the process.
The only source for this article, including the fact she died from “work stress”, is her mother.
I worked for a Goldman Sachs spin-off company like this for a year. As soon as bonus season hit I bounced and went back to commercial banking. Now I work remote and get nearly a month of PTO and sign off work at the end of the day and forget about it til the next day… No work email on my phone etc. You can work in finance and succeed without throwing your life away. The big 4 exist to enslave fresh graduates just so they can get their “stamp” in the industry, but there are other ways.
if this was in japan, some ass would immediately go “oh it’s japan work culture again” but wouldn’t dare to do the same comparison if it happens in other western country
Yea, EY as a company is…..something else. I worked for them for two weeks and saw how things were done. It is like a dystopian tv show where they expect you to work every minute you aren’t sleeping. I was just training to get their processes down and they called my cellphone (which they had to call the staffing agency to get) to ask why I wasn’t working tickets. Like I was there for less than 2 days. I barely knew the address….
This reminds me of when I worked for the FedEx Lost and Found. My team saved the company and their customers millions per month. We had to look for hearts, aircraft parts, missing sports mascot animals, documents, diplomatic packages, and missing celebrity luggage. Anything and everything shippable.
We were paid “The market value of our skills,” which they considered equivalent to doing a simple Google search, despite needing specific knowledge of their shipping systems and network. Their international agents would “search” but not even include basic search terms.
I could stand being paid peanuts. I couldn’t stand how often coworkers were crying in the trenches, how my manager Betty violated HIPAA by discussing people’s medical issues in front of the team, how she bullied people regularly, and stressed me out so much she gave me a miscarriage according to my doctor. She played favorites and mocked people who tried to have a work life balance or who had chronic illnesses. She asked a coworker about their sexuality AND their medical issues.
Thankfully she doesn’t work there anymore and neither do I, but I got sick of hiding in the bathroom to cry at every break. A great big ride gesture to everyone who enabled her abuses. We reported her to HR multiple times. She got a managerial award before she left.
Edit: Idc if their internet team sees this either. I’m outside their legal limits of things. May this teach them something. They should stop telling people they won’t get raises at the same meeting where they brag about record profits for shareholders.
Nothing gonna change because only bigger numbers matter.
The people in charge won’t “sacrifice“ their profit for the health of others. Our system is rotten to its core and we need a radical change or we gonna get a collapse.