Advertisement"The pressure is very, very high," Jennifer Hephzibah, a senior HR professional in India, told Business Insider.
'Glorifying overwork'This always-on culture has come under the spotlight recently following the death of an EY employee, Anna Sebastian Perayil, in July.
EY told BI it was "taking the family's correspondence with utmost seriousness and humility" and called Perayil's death an "irreparable loss."
AdvertisementCost centers and cheap laborHuge multinational companies, such as EY, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Accenture, have set up cost centers in India.
"It definitely exists that multinational companies tend to think, 'We love that the Indians work hard, so let's keep doing that.'"
Persons:
—, it's, Jennifer Hephzibah, Anna Sebastian Perayil, Peryail's, Sebastian Perayil, Anna, Perayil's, Rajiv Memani, EY, Narayana Murthy, Kavach Khanna, Khanna, Jeanie Chang, let's, Chang, Hephzibah, Jeanie
Organizations:
Service, International Labour Organization, Business, Boston Consulting Group, Infosys, Google, Microsoft, Accenture, Global, Centers, BI, Gallup State
Locations:
India, Japan