Indian comapnies need to understand that if they continue to exploit the employees, dissent and attrition will grow. This indirectly leads to costs and if the business is lost, the employee may still live without the pittance you pay him but how will YOU manage the 20 lakh pa lifestyle???
Another thing is - STOP FUDGING. If a project should 100 hrs, bid with that. Don't bid with 60 hrs. You may get the project - then you may ask employees to do overtime (without actually filling the timesheet). So, while the work gets done in 120 hrs, you still show that you have done it in 60. Yout get awards and maybe more projects and this culture continues for a while. But discontent is simmering. Obviously, people who are sacrificing their lives for YOUR accolades need something in return. They will definitely get angry when you say - hey, you worked for only 60 hrs, so we cannot give you a good increment. They will leave. I know, with India's population, you can get 2 people for that cost. But the culture continues and those 2 people will also get angry some day. But what about expertise? Ok, the new 2 guys will also build the expertise by working unacknowledged overtime. This cycle will also continue until you realise that YOU can also be replaced by 2 younger, hungrier people.
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by Harsha K on Apr 26, 2008 06:25 PM Permalink
Exploitation of Indian IT labor is a myth. IT engineers are highly paid by the Indian standards, especially for the skills they have.
If you check the amount of learning a Doctor, CA, BIOTech/Biochem professional or even simple pure science professionals need to do, as versus IT. Most of them take more than a decade or more to start earning at a scale of 3 year experienced IT professional.
When people talk about IT companies exploiting them, they compare it with the money they make. That's a reward that came with the risk they took in setting up shops abroad and for being enterprising.
Attrition in the short term may benefit an employee, but in longer term, he is likely to find his growth avenues closed. Most guys who grew to highest positions in their company did so, on the strength of their loyalty to the company.
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by Hari Narayanan on Apr 28, 2008 04:22 AM Permalink
You have no idea about the exploitation in the IT sector. Most(in fact ALL) of India's competetivness will vaporize if the employees are paid for the actual number of hours (even at 20% reduced salary). How many employees of TCS, WIPRO and SATYAM are happy. Most endure the exploitation to get themselves a foothold in the US. As far as growth goes, check how many experienced employees left TCS (15 - 25 yrs) because they were stagnant. Those who moved forward were those who could toe the management line and continue the policies that add profits but exploit employees. You are so out in the dark!
