EY Employee Death: Wake-Up Call For India's Corporates To Balance Mental Health & Work Pressure

The tragic death of 26-year-old Anna Sebastian, a chartered accountant, has sparked a debate about the toxic work culture in high-stress environments, particularly in corporate settings like EY. Her mother’s heartfelt letter highlights the severe pressures that contributed to Anna's untimely passing, prompting scrutiny of employee well-being in the workplace. The incident calls for urgent reforms to prioritize mental health and create supportive work environments.
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[@seanvaradhan8989]

Are you serious? Narayana Murthy talks about working 70 hours per week. Karnataka talks about 14 hours daily working hours. Either media is Hypocrite or Narayana Murthy and Karnataka Govt. Is Hypocrite.

[@marcusaureliusfanboy]

What are Narayan Murthy's thoughts on this?

[@pratikkkothari3198]

He will say only 1 out of millions so it's ok

[@ajith.giove069]

@@pratikkkothari3198 yes it is - india has laziest people

[@siddharthsen7035]

He will say that atleast now a new person will get job and work 70 hours a week for 75k a month

[@venky193]

@@siddharthsen7035 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Indian IT

[@tapk1995]

Maryam Murty is not catching Indians and taking them to Infosys for job. Contrary millions of Indians r queuing up at Infosys gate and begging for a job

[@adityapatnaik7078]

in my opinion, The leadership team should quit

[@vidhyanandcs]

Quitting will not solve the issue. They should bring in right HR policies

[@ransinghray3688]

A strict action should be taken on the leadership. Leadership should not only consider customers as partners but also the employees. HRs policies are only an escape route, HRs who are not properly trained or managers who are not properly trained on ethical values are responsible. Even the labour laws are too weak in India and come into action when these kind of situations arise.

[@vikramnanda2833]

Its in all IT companies More work more pressure 24*7 shifts But they ask still work 70 hours a week

[@TheHoneyzap]

Banks are no different. I once visited HDFC Mumbai office, because they were our clients. Saw employees clock in from 8am to 9pm, even 10 pm. It was relentless. This was back in 2015, and seeing all that along with anecdotal experiences of my own working in startups, realized I have to get out of India if I want to live.

[@aman-alytics]

They pay you peanuts. The situation is becoming same as prisoners

[@sober_soul_1]

Its just not EY, most of all indian corporations are same big & small. HR = 💃🏻 Dancers whn bosses throws money…. CEO’s surname also shows culture…

[@nayanmedhi7906]

The reason behind such toxicity is due to poor resource management. Big four auditing firms charge on hourly basis from their clients for deploying resources ranging from analyst to managers. However they deploy less number of resources for cost cutting which increases the stress.

[@mqser]

Please call the ceo and question the company policies

[@travelguy2296]

I went through something similar a few months back, struggling to sleep for over 20 days due to work-related stress. It led to severe anxiety and awful acidity issues. Thankfully, my family was there for support, and I sought medical help. It made a big difference!

[@a1t168]

Glad to know you are fine😊

[@happilysmpl]

Sleep is ultra important. Nothing more important than health

[@InfiniteWanderlust]

Anyone who raised concerns or registered complaints (including POSH) strangely disappear from the company within few months. It’s easy in corporate work places to remove people from the work force in the name of resource cuts. So these companies know how to shush the people who don’t align to their toxicity. Do what we want or leave is their motto.

[@Sanjeevkumar-jc3is]

This is because of the failure of India government see how the company are harrassing the employee, without thinking the government are forming labour law to work 12-14 hour work then in that case they will make us work 18-20 hour work till employee dies. Shame on government who knows to collect taxes but will never thinks of employees protection.😮

[@vishal.choudhury]

Govt want only tax not remorse. When govt takes away 30% of our salary our heart feels that because we have been working in a tremendous work pressure and earning every penny with lots of hardship

[@nitind3513]

Situation is becoming bad to worst in India for middle class..

[@HARSHADtp]

The reporting Vishi himself looks over worked and stressed

[@YoYoutube11]

This culture came from West. In west they pay well, so anxiety goes away partially. Because you enjoy money.

[@gamer-ff6mh]

Factually wrong lol...all Western countries aren't crazy like the United States

[@narinderpalsingh5349]

So Sad,,,,Responsible person should be arrested immediately 😢😢😢😢😢

[@shrikhanthegde9103]

Even i am mentally dustrurbed with this work culture ....feel gonna die soon due to stress

[@sober_soul_1]

Organisations do it just for compliance audit, not for employees…..

[@geethapratapkumar9722]

There should be a time limit for working. Especially in the IT field and in Corporate sector. 😢😢😢

[@jasonsandifer3250]

This is an Extremely Sad story for the loss of this Woman Anna Sebastián Perayal Sending this Woman’s Family My deepest Sympathy and Condolences, and My Thoughts and Prayers are with her Family. Why didn't anyone from her Work, her coworkers, employees, or employers Honor her Life, by attending her funeral. Very Disturbing and Sad story

[@filmyweb8095]

I dont why other news chenals dont coverageing this

[@SM-un4ho]

This is bound to happen when we have a huge population and barely any innovation in the country with the products and services that the world would want. The only option left is to work long hours compare to richer countries which normally has 40 hours work week with overtime pay if exceeds 40 hours in a week.

[@southpole4776]

I hope everyone paid their taxes

[@agoldenvoice789]

Very sad. The same work culture is existing in most/all of the Indian IT company. There is no standard work culture defined in IT industry which should be followed by all companies.. If we say, Indian IT industry has sub standard work culture/work-life balance, it would not be incorrect. The unprofessional management of EY must be forced to resign.

[@MushtaqAhmed-pe1bj]

Narayan Murthy !!! Gabbar singh of corporate world

[@Rajjs45]

More like an insensitive idiot

[@The.Accountant.11]

Hhh

[@AviinashP]

Let us make Narayana murthy to do fullstack role in his componany and work for 14 hrs to handle management,hr activities, financial activities individually... Indians dont overpopulate country.. This will help corporates like narayana murthy to become billionaires

[@Popat2415]

This is what when manuvaadis due to social capital sit at the top. Their forefathers never knew hard work, they only made the lower castes work for them. This is also the entitled mindset that made a IT Honcho said employees should work 70 hours a week. If only lower castes are given equal opportunity at the top, India would have been a developed country long back.

[@shivang8195]

Bar kar Bhai idhar casteism mat faila koi faayda nahi...manu wadi😂 , sc ,st , obc kuch nahi only hindu

[@deepcool5497]

But some are asking to work like robot.

[@jvs9797]

Modern slavery take place in india unabated in new way . Government should interfere in it and fix the time of work strictly as 8 hours. People need work-life balance which is really need for physical amd mental health or face the burn out of brilliant youngsters.😢

[@rahulchaudhary7872]

Nobody can stop toxic work culture other then employees

[@justcurious40]

Cause - people like Narayan Murty. whose daughter enjoys more wealth than British royalty but who is least bothered about common employees

[@churabhok2869]

Absolutely agree 👍🏻

[@hemlatashettyshadow]

There is stress in every job,the night duty, continuous night duty,the girl was young ,young suffering,which may be silent and now a twist for compensation or complaint for attending more than eight hours. The Manrega workers in extreme heat they toil and sitting in Air conditioned still collapse. The thorough medical check up every month. Not attending the mourning shows that no one is attached and this made Anna's mother got hurt.

[@tarunkuwar1978]

Sutta Break, Chai Break, Coffee Break, Share Mkt till 6 PM, start work after 6 till 12 and then take pride.

[@sekharpriyansu]

What does the government doing to stop such situations? Most western governments took actions to balance work life .

[@anjuhazarika7257]

It’s not only for new joined employees but I have seen old employees getting into ICU due to work stress.

[@The.Accountant.11]

Why the interview of employees is not taken? This interview is Just talk

[@Beejay6590]

Accenture, tcs, capgemini, infosys ask their employees to work 12 hours with manipulation that it can be seen as 9.5 hrs. 1 hr break, 1 hr travel etc. Comment if there are other firms which we should know doing these ethical thefts in working hours.

[@ganeshnavale8964]

Jitin Chawla : Not giving the right information across, he is not discussing using the ML to find out the Favorisom in the system. Caste discrimination is at its peaks in the private sector. There has to be a government audit for all private sectors operating in India. Employees should be allowed to raise court cases for wrong doing but main topics were not discussed.

[@jbhatt5920]

HR should be for employees not for the organization. If HR ensures their employees are happy and enough motivated, the company will grow to 5 x. Right now company is growing by 3 x but on the cost of the health of their employees mainly the fresher, juniors. Leadership thinks that under their leadership/management it grew by 3 x. They don’t realize that if their employees were motivated, it would have grown by 5 x. If Anna was properly motivated, her state of mind would have on different level and probably she would be living. Someone has to take a very deep dive and investigate. Take individual interview of their employees, start from there….

[@shreeveda]

Many MNCs that are in great competitive environment, have this toxic culture. Even many Indian companies have this. There are very few true Leaders in all companies. Most (95+%) are glorified Managers. When will Corporate employees ORGANIZE into Unions? That's the ONLY SOLUTION.

[@rahulchaudhary7872]

even if employees would have wanted to visit her funeral , no time off would have been provided and targets are to be done

[@anjuhazarika7257]

Not only IT even banks have extremely work pressure of sales.

[@AviinashP]

Atleast bank employees get holidays for famous personalityes death, birth dates

[@fatimahussain9531]

Sue this company

[@there-tro-re-loadx2953]

No one will answer the elephant in the room, OVERPOPULATION. today we lost a genuine person because of it. 🙏 rip

[@albertjohn2735]

Even in retail like Nexon Omniverse style union, .. They ask us to stretch till setting of floors .. I too Manage n forced to tke leaves..too much strees .. having knee severe pain till now am saved.. due to my rest. N God almighty saving with pray.. company will NEVER cares in now days..

[@rajendrabareto8065]

Should check with racist angle. Some racist manager gives a lot of stress workload to some people whom they don’t like due to their racist mindset

[@Shahaz1]

This is will never happen in European and America EY

[@roshenphilip7554]

I think it's more about making a law and claus that are monitored by the government so that like a taxi union? So that the employees have rights, because if you are a number you will be replaced by a younger person , and they know you are disposable,...it is also governments rule to make sure they are protected and employed. I mean in a start up you get fired in 2 months if you just say I don't want to stay back after my working hours. Sales jobs omg it is a source of stress if you can't sell the company product, the company will put the entire blame on you and ask you to stay back if you are in a sales team...you can't just treat that employee like that, he/she is working to build your brand...the upper management can't forget that.

[@sounakg]

So much hype about other incidents, but nothing about this one

[@piyushkalanoria9674]

All policies are there but just on paper. You can’t actually implement them. Saying with experience

[@kavitachauhan6868]

01) media will earn by TRP 02) Government will earn by..probably😅😅..high election fund..May be 03) EY s PR agency will earn by "Crisis management"

[@himanshusaxena8639]

Ye dekh narayan Murthy

[@lillytech1099]

😢😢

[@krupenderreddy345]

Indian industrialists are earning more profits without work ethics Unfortunately our government also supporting to corporates only instead of public concern and Labour laws, Indian family culture devastating by corporates and Toxic work culture

[@sober_soul_1]

Its just not EY, most of all indian corporations are same big & small. HR = 💃🏻 Dancers whn bosses throws money…. CEO’s surname also shows culture…