Asserting that “A Healthy Work-Life Balance is Every Employee’s Right,” almost 700 tech workers protested in India’s IT hub Bangalore on March 9, demanding enforcement of labor laws, regulation of work hours and codification of “Right to Disconnect”.

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    13 hours ago

    They are the backbone of most corporate IT departments. If they all went on strike they’d get what they wanted. Corporations would never pay US salaries to fill all their positions.

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    16 hours ago

    Good hopefully they can establish a place for themselves so that their labor can’t be taken advantage of by American companies as well and that forces American companies to actually relent on punishing American tech workers and trying to force down their wages.

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    It’s India. For every protestor, there’s 5 people applying for his job already.

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    18 hours ago

    To be honest, if you don’t want to be a slave to corps, don’t get into the tech industry. Unless someone out there has actually managed a unicorn experience and pathway and wants to share.

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        11 hours ago

        Meh. I switched out. Fucking happy now. Didn’t have it in me to ride out an abusive relationship in case it came good one day.

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        11 hours ago

        That’s their current state because they’re taken advantage.of by corps. An option is to not be that by abandoning corps. The article is quite clear if you read it.