Death of an Indian tech worker
restofworld.org
A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.
  • DocumentingDecline@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    25 days ago

    I realized how dystopian the tech workforce sector in India was in my first job. I was supposed to be building assets for a game but the company outsourced all of that to a company in India that had hundreds of employees in a giant warehouse modelling all day. My job then became just fixing the problems in the models because most of the workers were not well trained or experienced. If the model had too many issues and was going to take too long my boss wanted me to tell him so he could reject it but the first time I did so he immediately got on the phone to India and had the worker fired. I did not last long there.

    • kirk781OPEnglish
      6·
      26 days ago

      It is. As if the layoffs (not helped with penetration of AI considering significant part of Indian tech sector is for low level jobs) were not bad enough, there are billionaires advocating for 70 hour work weeks (with one person even going for 90).

      Technology was supposed to liberate us and give us more time for leisure, not the other way around.

  • kokimys@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    25 days ago

    This is just crazy. How can the management believe that their staff will actually deliver quality output if they do not get a chance to rest and recover?!