Bank of America employee dies from working 120 hrs/week

They've hired Boston Consulting Group to help them carry out their plan. The plan is to cut atleast 10% in major units. The project is termed Project Bora Bora. They will be eliminating regional managers, co-heads and other employees with overlapping responsibilities. Chief of staffs and chief administrative officers will be cut this month. Operations staff who aided divisions that have been divested or reorganized are also at higher risk of layoffs.

25 year old banker. Something to reflect on, given 2 quick deaths at the bank within 2 weeks.

Had nowhere to write about this but I feel so angered. Young people should work 70 HOURS? IN A WEEK? For what? Why is there 70 hours worth of work to do? You pay consultancy firms and good for nothing managers to optimise things and make it more efficient, no? Why can't you make sure work happens within the 40-50 hours? Or readjust deadlines and expectations at least? The employees allow you to bring in more profits, no? Hire more people - let them spread the workload. Give them more time off. Let them use the 40-50 hours they're already putting in more effectively instead of pressuring them to put more hours? A skilled potter takes less time to make a pot than an idiot trying it for the first time. Does that mean the idiot is more hard working? What is your logic in saying that Indians need to put in more hours to compete with the world? Put more money into your employees no? An extremely bright engineering friend of mine was given a <3 LPA offer from Infosys. That kind of amount is a rounding error for any single client order and you're playing games with someone's livelihood? Shame on you.

Are you ready to work more than 12 hrs a day?

I'm unable to understand what sort of entitlement does the leadership hold to ask their employees to work their ass off without any compensation for their efforts. Like literally bro just said that it's a 7 day work week for the next quarter and fuck your personal life and doesn't even bother to highlight that there would be any gratification for the same. The mid-senior leadership just acts as pawns and complies with this and in case you highlight this shit show you're fired.

Recently the CHRO of my company called me into a discussion on improving WORK LIFE BALANCE. Wow. I just cannot understand. Look at this. 1. Most companies work 5 days a week. (Except retail operations). So you get 52 weeks x 2. 104 days. 2. 30 days annual leav 3. 9 days statutory holidays. 4. Operational holidays. 3. 145 days of 365 days corporate people don’t come to office. And in a hybrid format even more. It is these corporate vultures who want work life Balance. How can u balance your life if u r unable to do it in 145 days. So Narayana murthy is right - work hard like 80% of india. Who have almost no weekly off. Just saying.

This is truly truly heartbreaking to hear.

Last week I visited to a private bank, there were almost 2-3 customers and 6-7 employee. Then suddenly manager came out to his chamber and start yelling to a female employee n was saying " tumhare vajah se aaj mujhko call karke 10- 10 hazaar ke liye bhikh mangna pad rha haiv, bhikhmange hai hum ? Sir ka call aayega abhi to kya bolunga, gaali denge mujhe , tum log ko to de nhi skta Mai" and nobody was responding. It's was really tight moment. That day I was thinking how someone works in that hectic environment.. really very high work pressure for just 20-25k rupees 🥲