So this weekend was a long one because we celebrated labor day this Monday! Thanks to this day, Americans don’t work crazy long hours (barring a few demanding fields) and if they do, they get paid for the overtime. This makes me wish the working hours for an employee in India (or for that matter an employee working for an Indian company in the US) would improve someday too. Having being part of that rat race for a few years, I feel the Indian companies are not family oriented at all. And why would they be? There is more supply (candidates) than the demand (vacancies) in the Indian job market. Not that it is a good enough reason to be ruthless.

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