Huge Workplace Stress Hindering Indian Corporate Executives

Bangalore: Work related stress, deep fatigue and isolation have forced many employees to quit their job, reports Anumeha Chaturvedi on The Economic Times.

Vivek Gupta, a former vice-president in the institutional equities teams at one of the biggest investment banks in Mumbai says “My work hours were terrible… about 80 – 100 hours a week. I was not getting any time for my family and children and also as I was affected by severe health problems I was forced to take a break”. 

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39 year old Tushar Sehgal, a former advertizing professional who worked as a creative director for a growing agency was stated in the article by Anumeha Chaturvedi saying, “I wanted to spend some time with my nephew and family on Diwali and realized that the quality of my life was far more precious than a fat pay cheque”. He even added that “I keep getting calls from headhunters, but I will not go back to that life again”.

Similarly, there are thousands of employees in corporate India who are entrapped in stress drenched jobs due to their meager savings and ever increasing EMIs, and are plummeting into depression every day.

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According to the survey of Cadbury India that polled 2,100 professionals from the different cities of the country in an attempt to understand customer psyche, 63 percent employees felt that they are working harder than they would like to, because of competitive work atmosphere, 66 percent of the working population in India is suffering from isolation, and 77 percent hope they had someone to share their happiness and pain.