Every day commuting in India’s city corridors can typically really feel like a battle, with lengthy hours on congested highways taking a toll on bodily and psychological well-being. For a lot of staff, workplace relocations and inflexible work insurance policies add to the pressure, leaving little room for stability between work and private life.
Lengthy-distance commuting, workplace relocation selections, and lack of worker assist are leaving staff annoyed, with one Gurgaon-based worker sharing his ordeal on-line. A Gurgaon-based worker shared his wrestle on Reddit, detailing the ordeal of travelling between Gurgaon and Noida for 3 years — a journey taking six to seven hours day by day, roughly eight days a month.
“I do know your entire Yamuna Expressway so nicely that even that’s getting me livid. My loyalty and sincerity to this firm is unreal, proper?” he wrote. He had hoped the corporate’s new Gurgaon workplace would ease the commute. “For 18 months I used to be ready. Dreaming. They constructed a SWANKY new workplace in Gurgaon! An excellent 15–20 min drive for me! I believed, okay, lastly the heavens will open, my psychological and bodily nicely being will enhance, they usually’ll give us the blanket approval. That is the payoff. And now?”
However his reduction by no means got here. “The MD in Maharashtra, the D in South India, and the opposite D in Noida have determined to not transfer their groups to Gurgaon even the colleagues who journey from Gurgaon. They don’t wish to approve it. Some lame, foolish motive, I do not even know what it’s.”
He added that colleagues who dwell close by are making selections that pressure him to proceed “dropping his soul on the freeway,” calling it “the peak of harassment and toxicity.”
The submit rapidly went viral amongst Redditors, prompting recommendation and shared experiences. One person warned, “Try to search for a brand new job. You’ll burnout earlier than you assume and it’ll take a toll in your well being!” One other supplied sensible options: “Whether it is any 8 days a month, then discover a momentary place in Noida for these 8 days and full your WFO quota in a single go. Whether it is 2 days per week, shift to Noida completely, in the event you dwell in a rented home and don’t wish to change the corporate.”
Some customers mirrored on their very own commuting experiences. “I’ve commuted Gurgaon to Noida, 5-6 days per week for two years and let me inform you, the roads grew on me, the commute grew on me. It turned my solace; the journey noticed me at my worst and even at my greatest. The ultimate drive again house felt surreal. Every single day, I prayed when will this hellish commute finish, till it lastly did, and I seemed again and felt emotional and nostalgic. Anyhow, I nonetheless commute typically as my gf lives in UP, and relive the fond/bitter recollections.”
