Do you support reservation in private companies?

Although I come from general category, I strongly support reservations in private sector.

It's high time opposition political parties adopt this concern, in all likelihood, they'll get a significant urban vote share. Especially from GenZ and young Millennials.

As a person belonging to OBC category and made use of reservations during my bachelor's (I did it in a tier 1 school), I don't support reservations in public sector jobs, let alone private companies. I might sound like a hypocrite of making use of reservations in education, but let me tell the rationale.

1. Companies are there for maximizing profits / shareholders' value and have no allegiance to any country or ideology. Forcing a company to pick candidates is extremely invasive and adds a lot of bureaucracy. Instead of hiring in India, these companies would simply shutdown the Global capability centers and hiring Indians in places with little or no red tapes (e.g Meta recruiting Indians to their eng orgs in London / SG, instead of having dev centers in India).

2. No company that is serious about making profits would accept government intervention. India already has trouble creating jobs for millions of graduates and can ill afford to antogonise the private sectors

3. Government intervention rarely works as intended. There are many socialistic countries where it is extremely hard to fire an employee (i.e Germany, France, etc). Ironically, this has suppressed TC , in contrast to US which has "at-will" employment and incredible salaries. Lookup "Cobra effect"

I am not sure about reservations in private sector but there is a severe lack of representation from lower castes in white collar segment. So we can’t dismiss caste discrimination as insignificant.

No. Should be merit based

kaafi bakwas soch hai h, caste based reservation khatam hona chahiye, promote nahin.

kal ko IndiGo 35% score wale "oppressed community" ko pilot bana dega because reservation, and 51% score wala reject ho jaega because competition

defence jobs me bhi caste reservation nahi hota hai, kuch toh reason hoga na.

just because some historic mistake hasn't been corrected over the decades, doesn't entitle a segment be allowed to clear any particular exam/ hiring criteria at objectively Lower score against other individual requiring higher score.

When workplace politics already exists why get external politics? Its the private sector, things will happen as per merit deemed by the person in charge.

I have heard Indians have taken caste discrimination to the US. They are trying to stop the Govt of California from banning caste discrimination.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/22/indian-americans-caste-discrimination-newsom-veto/

Time to get more representation from different castes and religion in Indian corporate space. That way people will get to have more conversations and dialogues with people from other communities.

Speaking as person with privilege and belonging to the dominant religious community.

Only merit based. I understand where reservation comes from but I don't think it's of much use today. Wouldn't a better alternative be family income based reservations?

It happened in Gurgaon once. The minister gave an order for some percentage of vacancies to be reseved for Gurgaon. The first reaction of companies was to leave that city😂 They are here for making profits not cater to the politics. After that the order was revoked.

Should be merit based. No reservation.