India's outsourcing industry takes toll on workforce [View All]

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Source: CNN.com

But, 26-year-old Vaibhav Vats will tell you, it was doing him no good. His weight had grown to 265 pounds and he was missing out on social life as he worked long overnight hours at a call center. Eventually, he quit.

Call centers and other outsourced businesses such as software writing, medical transcription and back-office work employ more than 1.6 million young men and women in India, mostly in their 20s and 30s, who make much more than their contemporaries in most other professions.

They are, however, facing sleep disorders, heart disease, depression and family discord, according to doctors and several industry surveys.

Loneliness can also take a toll.

"There is no social life," said Vats, who worked at night and either slept or watched television during the day. "You are not meeting new people."




Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/25/india.outsourcing.ap/index.html

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Boo F'ing Hoo. If you don't like the jobs that you have taken from the US, close the call centers. There's lots of people here who will work those jobs at the wages they were making before they were shipped over there.