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Artikel

15 Dez 2022

Autor:
Annie Banerji, The Wire

India: Employees accuse educational tech co. Byju's of abusive practices & harsh work conditions; incl. co. comment

"‘Treated Like Slaves, Abusive Practices’: Byju’s Staff Reveal Harsh Work Conditions", 15 December 2022

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Byju’s employees say its success is built on the back of an abusive and exploitative work environment and unscrupulous sales practices that involve profiling, pursuing and pressuring potential customers from poorer backgrounds to buy its courses.

Context spoke to 26 salespeople – 18 current and eight former – who outlined harsh working conditions with excessive hours, incidents of physical and verbal abuse, and a culture in which they are encouraged to mislead clients to make sales by almost any means.

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WhatsApp messages, internal emails, company contracts and audio recordings of calls and meetings reveal how some bosses at Byju’s pressure and threaten employees into working more than 72 hours a week, and do not allow them lunch breaks, time off, or even to leave the office if strict targets are not met.

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In response to Context’s findings, a Byju’s spokesperson said the staff who spoke out represented an “infinitesimal percentage” of its workforce, and that the company had “zero tolerance for unpleasant behaviour at the workplace”. “We uphold the highest safe workplace standards at each of our business units,” the spokesperson said...

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