{"id":67057,"date":"2024-10-02T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/02\/life-is-pretty-brutal-concerns-in-india-over-high-pressure-corporate-jobs"},"modified":"2024-10-02T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T04:00:32","slug":"life-is-pretty-brutal-concerns-in-india-over-high-pressure-corporate-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67057","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Life is pretty brutal\u2019: concerns in India over high-pressure corporate jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death of a young chartered accountant has highlighted a work culture of overworked employees and bullying bosses<\/p>\n<p>For the average Indian, the working week is now longer than ever \u2013 totalling almost 47 hours.<\/p>\n<p>According to recent labour data, India now has one of the most overworked labour forces in the world, enduring longer hours than in China, Singapore and even Japan, a country renowned for its relentless work culture. On average, Indians work 13 hours longer every week than an employee in Germany.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/02\/life-is-pretty-brutal-concerns-in-india-over-high-pressure-corporate-jobs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of a young chartered accountant has highlighted a work culture of overworked employees and bullying bossesFor the average Indian, the working week is now longer than ever \u2013 totalling almost 47 hours.According to recent labour data, India now &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[346,62,744,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-india","category-mental-health","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67058,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67057\/revisions\/67058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}