Written contracts? Fixed working hours? Clear job descriptions? Rest and recovery? These basic rights suddenly become radical suggestions when applied to our homes.
What made him ‘Akbar the Great’ was not the might of his armies alone, but the political architecture he built to sustain power over a subcontinent teeming with diversity.
These are the kind of people has exposure who doesn’t actually has any real understanding of the ground.
Household help doesn’t work 9-5. They work 1-2 hrs. Daily. Also they don’t ask for leave 2-3 days ahed. They directly say we are taking leave today or we won’t be available for 4-5 days and still expect no pay cut.
Also household help always has a fixed number or tasks like making only rotis or only cleaning the house something like this. And if u ask for extra work then before working they tell this will need extra pay.
Every tyohar they expect some sort of bonus. We don’t get bonus even on diwali. Or new year.
You are trying to divert attention from actual issue.
So miss whoever you are thinking before you write. You have a responsibility as a person with a lot of exposure. Don’t take sides. Or explain both properly.
Your argument is completely wrong and very harmful because it is diverting attention from a critical discussion. First of all, most people don’t have a household help working 9 to 6 or 50 hours a week. It’s mostly the household help coming in for 1 to 2 hours in a day with complete clarity on the work to be done. I don’t know what parallel universe you are living in but most of the help bluntly refuses any extra task requested unless paid extra. And there are always a few extra unscheduled leaves every month apart from the ones agreed upon, rarely does anyone deduct money for those unscheduled leaves.
Now you may say that these helpers are working 60 to 70 hours per week but mostly it’s for multiple employers and further, it is not enforced on them, they choose to do it to earn more.
Why left wing thugs and Marxist robbers like you are even bothered on such righ realing discussions. Stay in your fastasy world of nonsensical social buddle that everything in India is bad. No one cares about what you say, what you write. Go to your small lobby buddles dont come out no one gives a damn for you opinion.
It s a good writing but one sided. It also has to be looked into the business perspectives.Doing and managing a business in a sustainable manner today is the most challenging task on earth,that 9-6 employees need to realise it . Profitability is a declining curve and ceos all time struggle to improve and at least remain in floating .
No, we don’t expect them to work 90 hrs. Atleast We allow them weekly off. Also 2 more holidays per month.
But can’t say about others. BTW 90hrs per week is too much for burnout. It will cause quality to degrade. Everyone have family. Kids or parents get ill and there’s need to visit doctor. There are PTMs. We also need to teach children.
Those advocating 90hrs should be sent to work as labour and then we see how much hours they can do.
I don’t know about 70-90 hour weeks but working hard and as long as it takes to get assigned job done, is much needed. Corporate employees in India can be as outraged as they want but they forget that most of them are such poor performers that the remaining of their peers are already doing heavier lifting to cover based.
I will take this outrage only and only if the gaze is turned inwards. You are right about how we treat our helping hands. They don’t have time off, most already work 10-12 hours a day, many don’t have the luxury of a day off. Absences see pay cut for the day, if any product at home is damaged say a broken plate, salaries are often deducted. Corporate employees don’t have these penalties, they are an entitled bunch and don’t have the spine to own the poor quality of work they churn out on regular basis.
The same argument applies to all women asking for period leave. It’s a ridiculous concept. Women have been operating at home and outside with periods for centuries and yet our womenfolk are sensitive about it these days. However, what applies to them, can’t and won’t apply to our cooks, maids and other helpers. How dare they ask for 2 days off in a month!
Once corporate employees look inwards and start offering similar rope and empathy towards their helping hands at home, I will laud then for all this external outrage towards business leaders who they can never ever match up to in terms of achievements.
These are the kind of people has exposure who doesn’t actually has any real understanding of the ground.
Household help doesn’t work 9-5. They work 1-2 hrs. Daily. Also they don’t ask for leave 2-3 days ahed. They directly say we are taking leave today or we won’t be available for 4-5 days and still expect no pay cut.
Also household help always has a fixed number or tasks like making only rotis or only cleaning the house something like this. And if u ask for extra work then before working they tell this will need extra pay.
Every tyohar they expect some sort of bonus. We don’t get bonus even on diwali. Or new year.
You are trying to divert attention from actual issue.
So miss whoever you are thinking before you write. You have a responsibility as a person with a lot of exposure. Don’t take sides. Or explain both properly.
Extremely well written article.
Your argument is completely wrong and very harmful because it is diverting attention from a critical discussion. First of all, most people don’t have a household help working 9 to 6 or 50 hours a week. It’s mostly the household help coming in for 1 to 2 hours in a day with complete clarity on the work to be done. I don’t know what parallel universe you are living in but most of the help bluntly refuses any extra task requested unless paid extra. And there are always a few extra unscheduled leaves every month apart from the ones agreed upon, rarely does anyone deduct money for those unscheduled leaves.
Now you may say that these helpers are working 60 to 70 hours per week but mostly it’s for multiple employers and further, it is not enforced on them, they choose to do it to earn more.
Why left wing thugs and Marxist robbers like you are even bothered on such righ realing discussions. Stay in your fastasy world of nonsensical social buddle that everything in India is bad. No one cares about what you say, what you write. Go to your small lobby buddles dont come out no one gives a damn for you opinion.
It s a good writing but one sided. It also has to be looked into the business perspectives.Doing and managing a business in a sustainable manner today is the most challenging task on earth,that 9-6 employees need to realise it . Profitability is a declining curve and ceos all time struggle to improve and at least remain in floating .
No, we don’t expect them to work 90 hrs. Atleast We allow them weekly off. Also 2 more holidays per month.
But can’t say about others. BTW 90hrs per week is too much for burnout. It will cause quality to degrade. Everyone have family. Kids or parents get ill and there’s need to visit doctor. There are PTMs. We also need to teach children.
Those advocating 90hrs should be sent to work as labour and then we see how much hours they can do.
The first article of substance from Ms. Kaur. Goes on to show that she can indeed be a journalist if she wishes to.
Well written.
I don’t know about 70-90 hour weeks but working hard and as long as it takes to get assigned job done, is much needed. Corporate employees in India can be as outraged as they want but they forget that most of them are such poor performers that the remaining of their peers are already doing heavier lifting to cover based.
I will take this outrage only and only if the gaze is turned inwards. You are right about how we treat our helping hands. They don’t have time off, most already work 10-12 hours a day, many don’t have the luxury of a day off. Absences see pay cut for the day, if any product at home is damaged say a broken plate, salaries are often deducted. Corporate employees don’t have these penalties, they are an entitled bunch and don’t have the spine to own the poor quality of work they churn out on regular basis.
The same argument applies to all women asking for period leave. It’s a ridiculous concept. Women have been operating at home and outside with periods for centuries and yet our womenfolk are sensitive about it these days. However, what applies to them, can’t and won’t apply to our cooks, maids and other helpers. How dare they ask for 2 days off in a month!
Once corporate employees look inwards and start offering similar rope and empathy towards their helping hands at home, I will laud then for all this external outrage towards business leaders who they can never ever match up to in terms of achievements.