These companies do so to prevent insider information leaking. Most of them operate in market regulated conditions. Nothing wrong in providing lockers. If you don't want to work in this industry, by all means work in a different one

Yes it's okay for regulation but they take their phones because they don't want them to use the phone during the office hours due to efficiency

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@constA No company takes mobile phones away. Employees will be provided lockers in which they'll be putting their mobiles before entering their workspaces. @DonnyDarko @Rorschach

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Legitimate privacy concerns in a lot of cases imo

Same for DRDO, BEL etc, depends on the industry, regulations and IP concerns. Nothing wrong with it, but I usually kept it in car / bike as BEL had no lockers lol. Some higher ups can use phones inside that's all.

It's understandable for DRDO and BEL. But I am talking about companies making pet projects for foreign clients.

How do you perceive companies taking away mobile phones during office time?
Some of my friends work in companies (specially consulting) which take away their

How do you perceive companies taking away mobile phones during office time?
Some of my friends work in companies (specially consulting) which take away their mobile phone during work hours. For me this is a sign of an organization which does not trust their employees.

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Discussion has shifted to productivity in work from office vs work from home debate. I feel it’s a narrative which is kind of created by employers and their pr firms.

In reality it’s more about the power dynamics between employers and employees.

Employers are reclaiming control over their workforce by making work from office mandatory. By enforcing work from office policies, companies are subtly reminding employees of the limited job market, making them feel tethered to their current positions.

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I've had the fortune of having worked in 3 countries so far. India is by far the most exciting place to be in 2024.
But there's something about our work ethic that just concerns me. In both white and blue collar.

In most other countries, I've observed people strictly sticking to the 9 to 5, working diligently in those hours - not wasting too much time on chai sutta breaks, instagram browsing, gupshup etc.

They work for 8 hours, then leave. And think about work directly the next day.

In India, most of us spend more hours - but very obviously very few of those hours are productive. In fact, I lately feel that too many people around me are doing even 2-3 hours of work on a good day.

We end up just staying around, passing time, and then go back home. When we could have achieved so much more.

Work ethic has fallen. Work hours have gone up.

We need to be more mindful of our actions, we need to work well at work, and then do well at home.

I think it's a function of being over populated. There are 1.5-2 people doing what 1 person should be doing, hence this effect.

Needs to be fixed, it's the sign of a major problem in the workforce. Thoughts?

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I strongly believe if companies reduced work hours to 6-7 hours a day it’ll increase in individual’s moral as well as productivity, what do you guys think? 
Currently my shift hours is 9 hours a day traveling to and from excluded which leads to 12 hours a day, which gets hectic sometimes.

Work Hour Reduction.

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Hi Aryan, I'm Indian 👋

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Share your employer toxic trait/policy.

I'll go first 👇🏻

- My employer hired me when it was Fully WFH, now they force me to join office after 8 months of joining.
- Attend 5 days/week
- No hybrid
- Biometric system to track attendance 
- Complete 180 hours in a month or pay cut
- No relocation support
- Less appraisal (~5%) citing market conditions.
- Removed unlimited leaves just a few days below announcing WFO.

FYI: I was named best employee for 2023 Q1

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Half day salary cut for every 3 days you're late is pretty freakin messed up.
Curious to know what other ancient capatilist policies do corporates have in place to exploit all of us?

What are some dystopian policies at your work place?

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People coming from office and checking there phones be like

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I will start with mine. 

“Took leave on several days to complete pending documents & items”

My company is not bothered about a person bandwidth🥲

Is this the same everywhere?

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Let me show you something, this is how these companies are treating their employees even in a full time remote role, they think if they hire someone and give them salary they can make them do whatever they want. One of my friends is working in some MNC and they are pushing their work hours everyday single day like 5-6 hours like its no big deal that too with no compensation/flexi leaves, one day they sent this link of Google meet 11:30 am to 5:30 am (18 hours) and then they starting doing this everyday, its like we were practically living at work, with bosses expecting them to pull 18-hours shifts like it's no big deal. And when he finally spoke up about it, they accused him of not being flexible enough. So, when the project was finished they laid him off by saying that he is not flexible n all, How can anyone flexible of working 18 or 15 or 12 hours. This kind of toxicity is happening even in big companies.
Remote role doesn't mean that you will sit on my head , make me join some 18 hour meet link and then do the tasks while being in the meeting so that the PM can interrupt me whenever he feels like it with his idiotic comment of:
"is it done"?

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I see a lot of posts about WLB, I want to know what do you consider as a decent WLB. I will go first.

1. Leave early if the work for that day is done
2. No pings and calls post work hours, there are always exceptions and thats okay, should not become a norm
3. Respecting when someone is in vacation and not disturbing them.
4. Not rejecting leaves 

I will add more in comments If more comes to my mind.

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