A panellist batting for flexible work hours chimed in, âBut what if you want to give that time to your family, be around for that one hot home-cooked meal a day?” The gender ratio of the panel was three men to one woman. All three male heads, plus the fourth one of the moderator, turned…
Eight years ago, I spent days listening to exhausted employees of a high-profile startup. They shared troubling stories about brutal hours, abusive managers, and constant humiliation that was passed off as motivation. One engineer opened his inbox to show me countless farewell emailsâa silent, heartbreaking testimony to the toll the companyâs toxic culture was taking….
Even if unevenly, Karl Marx stays in popular memory for his 1848 clarion call asking workers of the world to unite as they had nothing to lose but their chains. Unevenly because we have come a long way since the days of chimney sweeps in Europe. Or have we? Uneven workloads persist. A recent study…
In the middle of a hectic news cycle, I once managed to get about six byline credits in the newspaper I worked for. Elated, I took screen grabs of the articles that had my name and shared them with my family in the hope that the word spreads. Until a few years ago, my count…
Our study started with no such preconceived meanings. It performed an emic or insiderâs deep dive into the contours of aspiration for the world of mass or mainstream young India, a world described in our previous column in Mint (âYoung India is fuelled by agency but is being failed by structure,â 24 March) as one…
Many people spend their lives chasing wealth, believing it to be the ultimate measure of success. Yet, despite amassing fortunes, they find themselves unfulfilled. Is money really the key to happiness, or is there something more? Money as a measure of success In todayâs world, success is often equated with wealth and material possessions. While…
BJP MP and Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal on Wednesday criticised remarks made by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Chairman SN Subrahmanyan, who linked the unwillingness of labourers to work with government welfare schemes and termed the statement as âmisleading, insulting, and demoralisingâ to India’s hardworking labour force. Also Read: While…
Bharti Enterprises, a key player in Indiaâs telecom sector, is on the verge of launching its satellite-based communication services, pending regulatory approval from the central government. Rajan Bharti Mittal, Vice Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, confirmed the companyâs readiness during a recent interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, but highlighted the delays stemming from…
When someone says something that sounds politically correct, you may doubt whether they really mean it. But when someone advocates an idea that is so out of tune with the current reality and changing times, there is no doubt they mean what they say. Larsen and Toubro (L&T) chairman S.N. Subrahmanyan was merely reinforcing, in…
Australia has enacted a law that grants its people the right to ignore bosses who reach out to them for work after work-hours. The Right to Disconnect allows them to neither read nor respond to official communication beyond the time span for which they are paid. Of course, there is space for exceptions in case…
