Employees work extra hours, fear taking leaves
By siliconindia   |   Monday, 09 March 2009, 22:35 IST   |    50 Comments
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Employees work extra hours, fear taking leaves
Bangalore: Nowadays most of the employees are ready to spend more time in their office and take less number of leaves due to the fear of job loss. Many employees fear that staying away from work even for a day would mean 'being noticed,' reported The Times of India. The HR departments of several companies said that the number of leave applications has come down drastically. A Gurgaon-based BPO firm had received over 400 applications between January 10 & February 22 last year asking for leave in the month of March, while this year, the company received only a few dozen leave requests for March. The company official requested the daily not to name his company in this report. Pallab Bandyopadhyay, VP for HR in Perot Systems, says employees have become extremely cautious. "They are increasingly becoming focused and performance-oriented," he says. "It is clear that people are placing a greater premium on their jobs. The responsibility factor has gone up by a few notches. The basic employee behavior is undergoing a change. All these were missing during the time when they were chased by multiple jobs," says Sudheesh Venkatesh, head of HR in Tesco HSC. Many projects heads are reporting full attendance even on Saturdays. "It's nothing but crouching for defense. There's an amplification of the fear of failure. There is unease everywhere which is palpable. No one wants to ignore the elephant in the room," says Manish Sabharwal, MD of staffing firm TeamLease.

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