Health Concerns of IT & BPO Workers

The Information technology and The BPO industry has made a tremendous change in the over all image of our country and its contribution to the Global IT and BPO services. This sector has together given India a prime spot in the global IT and BPO sector where quality work with reliability can be obtained. Indians by nature get easily adapted to the changing needs of technology and it has its response in the share of contribution to the global IT and BPO services.
The fact that most of leading Global IT and Computer giants has established a spot in India is recognition for our quality and economy compared to global rates for the companies concerned. For Indians the level of income from these sectors have been astounding.
Yes now it is accepted fact that if u ask any one, most of then( parents ) or Students will say that they want their siblings to pursue the above fields as a career. It is true that these sectors have changed the financial and economic status of Indians who have now more money for spending.
This also has made the cost of things form housing to food to hospital or what ever it may be, to spiral up in this country and the politicians and business sector has really utilized this with the present situation of high inflation and money value coming down. The business may call it as a positive trend and it may be correct but the person who is earning knows the difficulty and it also creates the situation of experiencing lot of money at the age of 20+ puts the youngsters in a real up mood.
Now the benefits of IT-BPO industry brought to India is something that has put India on a global position as a service provider.
The other side of the rosy IT-BPO industry is that it has a different culture and lifestyle that has changed the gears in the life of Indians. Particularly the health of our people working as long hours, stress, meeting dead lines, junk food and the global corporate culture and a total profit oriented attitude has resulted in a lot of health issues and life issues that has affected the industry with increasing attrition rates which the companies are trying to arrest and which will be difficult for the companies also.
The attrition rate is one aspect of the problem but how many has the detrimental of the new culture and life style- “air conditioned life without sun” , yes I mean it because the person leaves home before sunrises and returns by late night and for the BPO staff it is just a regular disturbance of their biological rhythms, circadian and hormonal rhythms that puts these people at the greatest risk of health problems that starts manifesting at very young age which was not a problem faced in this age group about 20 yrs back.
We will be presenting the health issues regularly in this blog and is created only for the benefit of the friends of IT & BPO world and as I found that there is not much of sources where the exclusive health issues of the above sectors are addressed or discussed or ways to prevent suggested.
We invite u to our blog and have your problems or points presented so that it will become more beneficial to every Techie whose knowledge on the computer and electronics will be excellent but awareness of details of health may be lacking with the result of unnecessary stress on simple matters.
Here we provide u the correct and accurate info so that the reader will be benefited and you can have your questions and comments posted.
It will also be nice to have more of your friends become aware of this venture aimed at the health issues of Our IT & BPO friends and I personally wish every one becomes a part of this venture with contributions that will benefit all of us.
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