Lack of sufficient work-life balance has become a hot-button subject today. With the news of several employees being literally worked to death hitting headlines, the subject of toxic work culture has once again gained spotlight. In an interview with PTI , Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu called out the current corporate culture for being completely oblivious to the employee’s well-being and demanded a saner, more human-centric way of conducting business.
He emphasised that targets could be met and profit margins could be increased without the expense of the employee’s well-being. Comparing work-related stress to a “pressure cooker”, Vembu spoke at length of how exposing employees to a soulless, exploitative work culture that treats them as little more than a cog in a well-oiled machine is detrimental not just to the employee’s productivity, but also the the company in the long run. “You already have loneliness, long commutes, stressful work conditions.
So, you are throwing people into a very big pressure cooker, and very tragically, some people break, other people are broken,” Vembu said. He cautioned that businesses driving their employees to exhaustion in the quest for immediate gains are ultimately paving the way for their own downfall. Preventing The Burn Out Vembu spoke about his secret to maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
The billionaire, who have been working for over three decades revealed that he had always aimed not to topple the precarious work-life .