Misuse of corporate culture
Like any other thing, Bangladeshi traditional work-culture doesn't adopt the western practice of the 'corporate culture' without terrible deformation. While in the west, this working pattern maintains clarity, equality and system, in Bangladesh it fuels up the manipulation of the surplus labour force. Over the last decade, we have seen a change in the overall working condition of Bangladesh. This change, in its turn, is moulding the socio-cultural fabric of our society. Both my parents were service-holders; however, when we were younger, we found both of them returning home before four o'clock. Consequently, the family did not face the disorientation of loneliness and boredom. But in our present time, most of the corporate offices, banks and even the education institutions have very long working-hours, the minimum of which is perhaps no less then eight -hours. Now the point is, some of the banks and offices even make the workers work till late-nights. And the academics return home with the overwhelming workload in the form of preparing questions, checking the scripts. They are not spared. When these people return home, after a day long of exhaustion (adding the never ending traffic-jam), they are, no doubt, not in a mood to spend time with the children and other family members. And without creating enough child-care provision for the small and school-going children, we demand married women to work and maintain a family life. All these exploitation of labour should be brought under control.
No research shows that longer time work makes an employer efficient. And within the context of Bangladesh, where we have scarcity of electricity, water and everything, the office-hours should be closely maintained. And finally and most importantly, we need to save our children from living an isolated and deprived life.
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