Honestly, who here still cares about the whole WLB line? I’m tired of managers acting like we should be grateful because supposedly we work fewer hours than people in other countries.

If it’s 2050, I’m still on £70k, and my monthly train ticket costs £1k, are we seriously still going to pretend it’s all worth it just because we work 20 fewer hours a week than people in other countries?

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Leadership is unfortunately incentivized to replace most of their domestic workers with workers from the world’s most populous country as they’re under the delusion that hiring people who culturally work longer hours and aren’t as agressive with pay rises demands is good for business.

All fun and games until the clients realise they aren’t getting the same level of service as before, are dealing with teams with less soft skills and different cultural norms, and the business then starts shrinking.

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I still remember being involved in a big digital transformation project which was so big that the roles and resp. were shared amongst a few consulting firms and IT service providers…. Over the duration of the project one of the IT firms had effectively bamboozled the client into eventually contracting 70 (!) offshore analysts from the world’s most populous country for implementation (their initially expected headcount was 8 onshore, 10 offshore).

They treated the whole thing as a summer camp, bamboozled the client into splurging on tech which wasn’t adapted to the requirements… it ended as the biggest circus show I’ve ever attended, and the client who commissioned this mess in the first place got fired.

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Corporates don’t care, they see employees as numbers and just wanna get the most out of everyone.

Unfortunately some managers are just corporate slaves so they just do what they’ve been told. Better to focus on on yourself and don’t take it too seriously.

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