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93 percent Bangalore corporate employees are sad

By SiliconIndia | Tuesday, 03 November 2009, 18:45 Hrs | 11 Comments

93 percent Bangalore corporate employees are sad

Bangalore: Around 93 percent of corporate Bangalore is unhappy at work, with most of the employees showing signs of not being happy. A health risk assessment study, HealthTrac, reveals that most of these employees show moderate signs of being sad.

The study conducted by PeopleHealth, a Bangalore-based health management organization surveyed 2,106 employees of seven leading IT firms in the city, 85 percent of the respondents being in the 25-35 age group. A general reaction from the employees is that they feel the pinch when they have to work with uncooperative colleagues or managers, reports DNA.

"We run Employee Assistance Programmes in corporate houses, where a majority of complaints that we receive is either related to personal relationships or relations with colleagues. A hostile work atmosphere or a rude boss creates more unhappiness than not getting a promotion, pay hike or on site job offer," said G Krishnamurthy, CEO, PeopleHealth.

The employees were clinically and personally evaluated in the study. Clinical evaluation included a normal health check, including blood pressure, body mass index, and cardiac and diabetic risk. The personal evaluation included sleep duration and hours spent traveling to and from office, explains Krishnamurthy.

Close to six percent of the participants admitted to suffering from stress and depression. But mostly, the study found the unhappiness among the employees was due to a combination of long hours of traveling, hostile work atmosphere and almost zero social interaction.

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1: I feel crancky and tired at the end each working day.
For a fact today I really dont wanted to come to office I just pushed myself to be in office.

Posted by:Bala - 04 Nov, 2009

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2: connectivity with God is the ultimate answer to peace an happiness. most of us are so involved in the wordly issues that we dont try to find time to be in presence of God.

I am at peace whatever be my circumstances situations finances emotions because of my GOd.

I challenge n invite you to come and taste the goodness of gracious GOD . if interested to have happiness in your life, contact me. with love and prayers for happiness for you all.

Posted by:v s chohan - 04 Nov, 2009

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Hope God will earn money for me!

Dhruv Replied to: v s chohan - 05 Nov, 2009

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4: Basically it would be oonnected to the Indian feudal language culture creating the problem. When team work is insisted upon, there is no thought of what is the team with which one has to work with. In India, people come from varying intelluctual and cultural background. All that they share is just a minor input of software knowledge knowledege. It is a terrible thing to be clubbed with persons from rude language cultural connections. Team work would become an effort at controlling fury and irritations.

Posted by:Ved from Victoria Institutions - 03 Nov, 2009

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5: Why need to mention 3 cities in India what about others cities.Everywhere employee will be sad we cant arrive a solution.Apart from salary there will be lot of issues.

Posted by:Hari - 03 Nov, 2009

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yes it s right

shashi Replied to: Hari - 04 Nov, 2009

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7: Wherever you are this result holds true. Its not that the bosses are unaware of this, yes, even they know about this. unfortunately they are helpless, the competition in the business makes them to pass on the burden on their sub-ordinates..afterall they too are human beings and would have experienced these in their premature days.
Its all with us on how we handle to the pressure, if you cannot say it upfront that you are not capable of doing this..by this the bosses would know the capability of an employee...

Posted by:Samrat - 03 Nov, 2009

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8: Hope our Bosses will read this article

Posted by:Subhasis - 03 Nov, 2009

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9: This is i think true in every city. Not just in Bangalore. Does anyone have to say anything about Mumbai or Delhi corporate employees? are they happy?

Posted by:hemant - 03 Nov, 2009

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Happiness and Peace are internal things NOT external,more u search 4 outside more you want but it never ends.People should learn how to give what they have like knowledge,time etc.... not money,People go to temple,church,mosque...but how many go to Orphanage home once in a 3 months or 6months.Even i was like you all couple of years back but when i started doing like going MBA colleges sharing my knowledge their is a feeling i am giving back something ,please know who u r that makes more sense than a onsite job..........

Niranjan Replied to: hemant - 04 Nov, 2009

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11:

Thats really great thought from you Niranjan ,i really appreciate your views

Mukesh Singh Replied to: Niranjan - 05 Nov, 2009

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