Today’s corporate India is getting greedier as
each financial year passes. This is true for the private multi-nationals both
which originated within India and outside and the government companies which
hire staff on contract since their permanent staff can’t be exploited as much.
I got a personal experience of this greedy
corporate world. I worked 16 hours a day, day after day handling a two person
full-time work while providing 24 X 7 availability. I had my reasons like many
employees of this world have theirs. And as expected, I had a meager salary for
the amount of business I was handling for my company.
Why didn’t I say no? Well, I am a middle-class
Indian male who has an engineering degree. There are a lot of people like me in
India.
These people know that they can’t just quit the
job of an engineer in a country where their whole life is built around it.
Their parents, relatives and the society respect
them because of this job; they got married because of this job; they got their
house and car loans because of this job. And so, these dependencies, read,
‘pre-requisites for living in middle-class India’ made one thing very clear for
a middle-class Indian male who has an engineering degree, ‘you can’t leave your
sixteen-hour workday job where you earn a negligible amount for the amount of
work you do.’
A major contributing factor to this on-going
blackmailing of corporate India is that 65% of India’s population is in the age
group of ‘Becomers’ i.e. 35 years of age or less and about 50% is under 25
years of age.[1]
This combined with the low vocational skills our
colleges give to the up and coming employees and entrepreneurs, the Indian
workforce is compelled to compete in a cut-throat world for jobs.
This weakness of India’s youth gives
extraordinary leeway to corporates to manipulate and exploit its workforce.
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