And when output and production drop 35% next quarter, you can be damn sure they'll whip out the "We're a family here!!!" talk as they announce even more layoffs to pad the bottom line.

There are ten livestock animals in captivity for every one human. You're still lucky to be born a human anywhere on earth, because we are the monsters.

Why is India that way?

"Beatings didn't work. Let's try hunger and homelessness"

Yeah, they did, but the remaining employees won't dare complain about it so management sees this as a twofer win.

Or engage with them but expect the repercussions.

I'm very candid when this shit comes around my corp and am extremely nuanced in explaining the culture challenges.

The trick is to not explicitly call anyone out and highlight it's a systemic problem.

I have always engaged with every one of them and have been negative quite often yet never anything bad came of it. Probably because we have employee rights where I live. So the actual problem is americas lacks of rights.

The stoner dudes high as balls 247 who don't give a shit and are not stressed a bit: :DDD

It seems that it's most likely an out-of-touch marketing stunt. The company, Yes Madam, is apparently launching some sort of corporate wellness program type thing so they are likely going to pivot this publicity into "Treating employees like that would be awful right?! But companies do have stressed employees and should take care of them with...blah".

I hope it fully backfires and they go out of business.

EDIT: It just hit me that they are going to say "We didn't have a single employee who indicated stress on the survey, because we take care of our employees."

Years ago I heard this story about a company in India that held a fire drill. Once everybody was gathered outside, they made the announcement that for about a third of them their key cards wouldn't work anymore because they were fired. My colleagues from India at the time said that sounded very real.

The only thing I could find is that Yes Madam is a real company and that the sender is indeed the HR head of that company. So if it's fake, someone kept the header and signature of a real email. Or maybe a real email sent on April 1st? I have a hard time believing that this is real (not that a company wouldn't do this, but the fact that they would admit to it so blatantly like it's not a bad thing).

That email is company wide, not specific to those fired

It was reported by several outlets as true.

https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/yesmadam-fires-employees-after-stress-survey-hr-s-email-sparks-outrage-124120900791_1.html

Risky publicity stunt if that’s what it was.

Recently at a company town hall, "please respond the anonymous employee satisfaction survey."

My boss a couple of weeks later, "HR says they need more surveys from our group. Please encourage your teams to fill them out."

Yeah, completely anonymous.

And why is the url they send always "website.com/survey-name/[random hash]"? Why are there trackers on this totally anonymous, fo sho, survey link?

There was quite a few in the UK as well, mostly in Leicester (large Indian immigrant population there). People being paid £3 an hour when it should have been about £8 at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/13/poor-working-conditions-persist-in-leicester-garment-factories-finds-survey

If you buy cheap clothes from the likes of BooHoo you should know that they're made in these places, and if you buy expensive clothes, then they're probably made in the exact same conditions with a nicer label sewn in the back and a better PR department to handwave away any wrongdoing.

More like the onion banji

(Ba-dum tsh)

If anyone has questions about what bhartiya means, it means Indian.

So the whole phrase means 100% purely Indian company. Equivalent to the phrase 100% purely American company.

In both countries, this could indicate alignment with the ultra nationalist party in power who have been espousing a push to produce goods within the country instead of importing from china, or just a normal support local businesses thing.