We need to address India’s workplace culture
Chairperson of the Kerala State Women’s Commission, P. Sathidevi, visits the family of Anna Sebastian Perayil, a Chartered Accountant, whose sudden death triggered a debate on India’s toxic work culture.
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In September, the mother of Anna Sebastian, the young chartered accountant who passed away in July allegedly due to work stress, said, “They say we have received freedom in 1947, but our children are still working like slaves.” Her anguished cry goes to the heart of the issue of workplace culture in India’s corporate world.The inquiry report of the Ministry of Labour, promised within 10 days, is still awaited. The corporate world has chosen to remain largely silent on the tr...