We should pay more attention to business barons and try emulating their behaviour because they clearly know best

We need to stop blaming companies for forcing employees to put in more than 10 hours a day. If corporate India promotes the notion that anything other than the generation of profit is a waste of time, we need to get on board. Representation pic/iStock

I have a lot of respect for the Big Firms. If you need to Google them, I refer to those intelligent accountants who swoop in whenever an organisation isn’t doing well and sort everything out by recommending mass layoffs. I used to wonder why that was always the only solution they offered after billing clients for years, until I realised I was the problem. Sacking a lot of people to make shareholders happy just hadn’t occurred to me. If I were working for those accountants, I had no doubt I would understand the wisdom behind their one-dimensional recovery plans.

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The reason I mention these Big Firms is an unfortunate incident that occurred a few weeks ago, which ended up giving one of them some bad publicity. An employee passed away and, unfortunately for the company in question, the deceased’s parent........

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