HDFC Bank Employee in Lucknow Dies After Falling Off Chair, Colleagues Blame Work Pressure

HDFC Bank Employee in Lucknow Dies After Falling Off Chair, Colleagues Blame Work Pressure

After an EY India worker in Pune died and now an HDFC Bank employee in Lucknow—said to be stressed about work—has also passed away, there appear to be worrying times, so reports suggest. Sadaf Fatima was an Additional Deputy Vice President at the bank’s Vibuti Khand branch in Gomti Nagar. Lucknow witnesses say colleagues saw her fall unconscious while at her desk in the bank’s premises. She was taken to a nearby hospital, but doctors there declared her dead on arrival.

A postmortem is being carried out to find out how she died. People are noticing these deaths: Akhilesh Yadav has spoken of pressure on staff in private and public companies like never before. The Samajwadi Party chief has expressed shock and sorrow too over what happened to women employees specifically—wondering aloud whether they feel almost bonded laborers, unable even to say if those who make them do jobs day and night are wrong or unjust!

“Governments are there to fix problems, not make baseless suggestions,” Yadav said on X (formerly Twitter). The comments obviously critique Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s recent proposal that young people should learn stress management to deal with job pressure.

He also called the finance minister’s words “heartless and insensitive,” especially given grief over incidents, and urged the government instead to focus on improving working conditions so as not to give advice that does nothing but increase distress among staff further.

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Just days after Anna Sebastian Perayil died, an employee at EY India in Pune. Her mother said that Anna had too much work at her first job as a chartered accountant (CA), which she started only four months ago with S R Batliboi (an EY Global member firm), where it seemed like there were endless hours worth of stuff needing completion. When this other event went down,

Anna’s mother wrote a sincere letter saying her daughter had looked forward to starting work but died young after just four months—allegedly because her office glorified working all hours. The family claims no one from the firm went to Anna’s funeral; she often worked late into the night and at weekends, came home exhausted.

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The two events have caused outrage among many people in India who are worried about what the incidents say concerning how well workers are treated as well as wider questions regarding attitudes towards jobs; there is also anger about an apparent lack of respect shown by company representatives toward the deceased woman at that time.