" Applicant should be ready to work 24 X 7 " was the sentence in one of the recruitment Ad in leading national daily today.
I wonder who would apply for such jobs ???
Under the pretext of loyalty and commitment these type of companies are social evils. They do not want us to be with ourselves, our families and live our lives.
We are first loyal to ourselves. In Mahabharata KARNA was first responsible for himself but he choose to remain loyal first to Duryodhana knowing fully well that D was wrong. We all know the result of remaining loyal to wrong people ( Boss & Company too) . Likewise all fanatic target crazy and only ROI focused ( not sensitive to employee happiness, customer WOW !!! and social responsibility ) companies wants us to be their slave under the pretext of loyalty and commitment. { How many companies are interested in happiness and lives of people working for them???? } ( why no companies measure non financial measure of success like people happiness, customer happiness , social and environmental commitment every year )
We all want happiness, time for family, time for self, time to enjoy not once in a year but on an ongoing basis. We all work , yes , for our passion but primarily for money ( lets accept the fact ) and money we can enjoy by spending it on our own life purposes and happiness.
We spend our (only) life to earn for happiness , earn for education of children , earn for marriage of children and for our retirement corpus. This is possible through working for someone or for our own.
We are compelled to stay on even through we do not want to is because ;
1) There is no other option
2) We don't want to dare
3) We are afraid of change
4) We do not want to look at other options
5) Assume that known devil is better than unknown devil
(How abt the reality of - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara !!!)
Today's corporations are INSANE about growth & valuation sans sensitivity towards people influenced by their existence.
( They give employment and money so they can demand 24 X 7 of our weeks !!! )
Something must change fundamentally, the way we manage our companies.
[ Add On : Must Read ( by board, CXOs and empoyees at all levels ) : Seven Days Weekend by Ricardo Semler. ]
