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BPOs and the smoking ban

BPOs have always been character assasinated. It is in the news for all the wrong reasons, rather BPOs are made the reason for all the wrong news.

When I joined the BPOs, I was told that one cannot work in a call center without smoking. You have to smoke to cope up with the stress you encounter in a BPO. But its has been 8 years now and I have never smoked. Is it that the BPO is the one who brought the smnoking culture? I do no think it is, but a lot of people have their own reasons to believe that it is.

So how would the smoking ban impact the BPOs? I do not think it would...

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Safety of the Woman Employee

Another murder of an employee working in a BPO, another news for the media. Is it anything more than this?

Perhaps this is a question worth discussing. What are the initiatives that we took when the first such incident in Bangalore happened? Did we formulate enough measure to ensure that this doesn’t happen in the future? Probably not.

It is easy for the organization to say that it was not our mistake. It is even easier for the employees in these organization to say that the Company is not taking adequate care of them. But actually the fault if from both ends.

Organizations formulate policies to esnure safety of Women employees like – No female employees to be picked up...

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Whose responsibility?

It seems newspapers are now realizing that BPO is a huge news generator for them. You would find some or, the other news in almost all of the leading dailies. Some of them are absolute crap and are baseless and stinky opinion of some individuals who are okay with sitting in the stadium and watching people play and who would then want to criticize them. But some of them are thoughts that one would ponder on. These prompt you to think.

One of these leading dailies came up with a news that the “Government is working on framing a health policy for BPO employees”.There was a minister’s comments which read, “It is sad to see BPO employees falling dead at...

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