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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    5 days 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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    5 days 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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        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.

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            4 days ago

            Exactly

            When “so” is in the starting two words of a Lemmy comment, there’s a 90% chance you’ve attracted a real genius that’s definitely not at all building straw men and is totally capable of following along things without further explanation.

            I know when I’ve been bested.