IndiGo’s Associate Director of Digital Marketing recently shared a leaked internal mail sent by startup and Shark tank-famed YesMadam, a to their employees, a home salon and a tech-enabled platform for beauty and wellness, saying they have parted ways with workers employees who indicated significant stress during its survey.
“Recently, we conducted a survey to understand your feelings about stress at work. Many of you shared your concerns, which we deeply value and respect. As a company committed to fostering a healthy and supportive work environment, we have carefully considered the feedback.
To ensure that no one remains stressed at work, we have made the difficult decision to part ways with employees who indicated significant stress. This decision is effective immediately, and impacted employees will receive further details separately. Thank you for your contributions,” as per the leaked letter shared on LinkedIn.
ET Online has not verified the internal mail independently
Around 62 per cent of Indian employees experience burnout, triple the global average of 20 per cent, due to work-related stress and poor work-life balance, as per a report by digital healthcare platform MediBuddy and CII. The report also highlighted that a massive number of job seekers consider employee wellness programmes crucial in their decision-making process.
The conversations around work culture gained momentum after Anita Augustine, mother of Anna Sebastian Perayil, in a letter to the firm’s India chief Rajiv Memani, alleged that her daughter died due to work-related stress just four months after joining Ernst & Young (EY) in Pune, saying she was made to work late into the night and over weekend without breaks.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than half of the global population works, and around 15% of working-age adults live with anxiety disorders. Also, around 12 billion working days are estimated to be lost every year around the world to anxiety and depression. This costs the global economy a massive loss of $1 trillion in terms of lost productivity.
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