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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
We are buckling under pressure to brush off anxieties and pretend that everything is back to normal in our workplaces, homes and schools. We are not alone, yet we feel isolated.
Editor's note: September is the month for slowing down. I made this up, of course. I am aware that most of us are now hurrying up to complete the tasks we had allocated for this year. We are listing new goals for next year. After the sudden lockdowns and pandemic-induced deceleration of the last two years, we are just about beginning to rush around grabbing every opportunity as it becomes available to us. But most of us are also bone-tired. Some of us admit it. Others belong to the what-do-you-mean-tired-just-get-up-and-go-to-work-till-you-drop-dead school of workaholism. I am responding to the vague ache in my bones and muscles, which seems to be neither exhaustion nor illness. Or maybe it is both. It is difficult to find that sweet spot between adequate rest and just enough exercise that will rejuvenate me. Silence the constant, involuntary buzz in my head and bring a calm energy to my being. I know that I am not alone here. Outwardly I am fully functional and multitasking as usual. Within me, I know something is off. I seem to be dragging …
Indian youngsters are experimenting with newer D2C brands like never before. Bewakoof’s early success and its 2022 acquisition by retail giant Aditya Birla Fashion should have given it the edge, but the company has been left behind.
The company is now just another aggregator in the budget hotel sector. And the shift does make sense; OYO wants to cut losses and its India business isn’t all that important anymore.
Bringing mental health within an organisation’s monitorable targets can be the reality check to ease work-related stress and its excessive link to productivity.
