Why are there more suicides in Infosys

Stress taking its toll in IT Industry

More and more suicides are reported from Narayan Murthy founded Infosys - The IT Bellwether of India

Most of the times the blame is on stress. Can a company with around 100,000 employees handle stress in a different way.

When I spoke on this issue with some in IT Community, they told that it was not Infy that kills people, it is their immediate superioirs who keep the pressure on sub-ords. The sub-ords mostly young are unable to handle the pressure and simply take the extreme step.

Though the above argument has some meat, still the superiors are Infosys (or generally any other company's) employees and they have to be trained to handle the stress and not to pass on.

Don't forget that there were more cases of sucides by Program managers and Project Managers ... Whom to blame?

BALLAYYA RESUME

BALLAYYA RESUME

Name: Balakrishna (alias Balayya)

AIM : To make the audience run away from theaters

Experience: 30 years industry

Junior Artist - 1974 (with 1 hit, 9 flops)

side role- 1979(14 flops)

Lead role- 1986- till date( 4 hits, 44 flops)

Skills: moving trains (Palnati brahmanaidu), climbing Mt. Everest

(Vijayendra varma), shooting a bullet from mouth (Allari pidugu),

playing with current (Okka magadu), etc.

Expectations: min. 5 crores for each film

Achievements: world records in flops

Role Model: Captain Vijayakanth,the Telugu Tiger of Tamil Nadu.

Project Details--
1. Bike riding on ground and in air
2. Climbing any mountain with hands
3. Pulling chair front and sending train back with hand signals

Leadership skills--

Led 12564 hens and cocks to attack the enemies and won the battle.

Special Attraction--

1.hitting thigh (Thoda Kottadam)

2.having laser eye (Kanti Chuputho champaysatha)

3.senseless talking in functions, interviews

Conclusion:

Balayya went to a library and asked for a book "Psycho The Rapist".

The Librarian searched for hours and came back ...slapped Balayya and said,

"Idiot, the book is called Psychotherapist ".

IBM Layoffs - 1,000 US Employees

IBM cut more than a thousand workers Monday in its first round of mass layoffs this year, according to an organization tracking the company's actions.

Workers were all abuzz on Alliance@IBM's Web site on Monday morning as they reported about "resource actions" taken by managers at various IBM locations around the country.

By late afternoon, Alliance@IBM, an organization that seeks to organize IBM workers, confirmed through resource action packages -- human resource documents identifying job cuts -- that the company laid off at least 1,052 workers, or about 1 percent of IBM's 105,000-person U.S. work force. IBM workers forwarded the information to Alliance@IBM.

The company's U.S. headquarters at Durham'sResearch Triangle Park was affected in at least three departments, according to workers posting on Alliance.


Last March, IBM also reportedly planned to lay off 5,000 U.S. workers after having cut 4,000 software and sales workers in January 2009.