What a good workplace looks like, and what a bad one doesInternet in India this week, for better or worse.
It’s often a personal crisis that reveals whether you’re in a great workplace, a good one or a bad one. Unfortunately, Prayut Jain saw the ugly side of startup culture at a time his father was fighting for life in a hospital in India. Jain, one of the founding engineers of a San Francisco-based startup, alleged that he was fired from his job days after he flew back home to meet his father. To make matters worse, the US-based AI engineer faces the risk of losing his H-1B visa if he does not find a new role. You can read more about Jain’s experience here.
Here’s a company, an Indian one, that got it rightA Coimbatore-based company gave a woman a month off after her father’s death, according to an X post by her brother. “My sister works for a traditional company that was built out of Coimbatore. The chairman personally messaged to check in on her,” Vibin Babuurajan wrote. Apart from the four-week leave, the company bore 20 per cent of the father’s medical expenses, he said. Read the full story here. Google’s tiny perk delights Bengaluru womanWhile empathy and consideration by an employer are what truly matter, a simple vending machine, too, can sometimes be a workplace win. Google employees vlogging their 9-to-5 - what they eat at work, the perks they get by virtue of being employed by the tech giant - have become common content on the internet. Diksha Aggarwal, a Google employee in Bengaluru, shared a small yet thoughtful gesture that the company makes whenever employees need earphones for work. Aggarwal, who had forgotten to bring her headphones to work one day, simply walked up to a vending machine which dispenses earphones. As with most Google content on Instagram, several users jokingly asked how they could land a job there. Read the full story here.
Most-read this weekThe story of Sohan Sethi, a data analytics and AI professional, is one that our readers lapped up this week. In an as-told-to essay published in Business Insider, the 29-year-old shared details about how he managed to live and work in the US despite his H-1B visa application being rejected thrice. Sethi said he spent ₹12.4 lakh to secure “another way” to stay in the US.
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