Trending @Accenture; If this is not hypocrisy then I don't know what is.
I have many female colleagues who travel very long distance (4-14 hrs) only for RTO and that too solo.
On one side of the coin, ACN flexes too much on women empowerment and POSH and idek what other policies and shit they have privileged for women. While on the other side, they put hardworking women in an extremely vulnerable situation where suffering is the only option.
I'm not a feminist and I'm not trying to bend any policy either but this is really some crazy shi that I can't stop thinking about.
What y'all think?
How come the travel time range is so long? 4-14 hours? The range is too long to understand it fully.
ACN flexes about rules whether they are posh women empowerment or RTO, they all have same weightage.
ACN is the only IT big firm who is still one day a week, TCS is 5 days, cognizant and others are 3 days a week.
I believe your female friends hasn't worked before the pandemic? It was 5 days a week in office.
ACN had already given ample amount of time to every employee to shift to their base location, now if that employee doesn't want to do that they'll have to travel. They are not just investing their own hours but also the working hours while traveling.
This is not about male or female it's about rules.
My reply might seem sliding towards the organisation but it isn't, it is based on your post only where you are mentioning rules I just mentioned another rule that is RTO.
I know a lady who travels 7 hours from UP tier 3 city to Indore.
Why not move to Indore then? At this point, she can either ask Accenture to exempt her on a genuine reason ground, or switch to a remote job. I don't understand the idea of travelling 7 days weekly and then cribbing about it.
Why are they traveling 14 hours to office? Why aren’t they staying in the base location? Isn’t that their choice?
Let’s be honest — this isn’t all on the company. If someone accepts a job in City A, but chooses to live in City B, which is 4–14 hours away, then they’re voluntarily taking on that struggle. Nobody’s dragging them onto trains or buses. It’s a choice.
Yes, maybe the cost of living is lower back home. Maybe they want to stay with family. All valid. But then you can’t turn around and blame the company for expecting you to show up at the location you were hired for.
Let’s call it what it is: you can’t opt out of living in the base location, then complain about the commute.
If I was in their shoes I would rather suffer and complain than paying 70% of my salary in rent and junk food and still living without peace of mind. There's no smarter policy that determines pay level based on where you live, and these are all consequences of the same.
Yes, follow RTO even if you were told your presence isn’t required. Yes, go to the office even when you don’t have a designated seat and book it every week. Yes, show up even if all your teammates work from different locations and communication happens only on Teams. Yes, keep going despite no hikes or promotions for three years and being unable to afford rent in a tier-1 city.
What I’ve heard is that there are some influential groups involved — for instance, the PG association, whose head is actually our PG owner. Apparently, they collect contributions (chanda) that go through middlemen or dalals, who in turn pay off certain officials connected to Tech Embassy Parks. This money flow supposedly creates a kind of informal network, where a cut even reaches HR and top official of companies. In a way, this entire chain sustains the local PG economy and benefits a few landowners and businesses in that area.
And on top of that everyone earns in that area from us....no one who is local does corporate job in bellandur area ...everyone is business owner.
My PG owner said he gave 10 lakh alone to start the park....why would company call back to office . I can understand management part coming to office for client interaction.
No one comes to office from my team still i come ,sit alone .....waste of resources and time
Shocking info, bro/sis. I also go to the office, eat junk and expensive food in the cafeteria, travel 15 hours, and burn my savings as the salary is not enough to cover all the expenses.
Now she will have to travel 28 hours.. ACN is implementimg 2 days a week
I have to travel 120 hrs in a month. As I travel 15 hrs for a single trip, if I travel 2 days a week, I would have to travel 120 hrs in total. Wow! I wish the ACN office had a bed to sleep in. It would help me save on hotel charges.
@VanGogh_ Accenture has already asked to be at base location. So it's ur choice to travel 120hr or stay near office and travel less.
Ever understood the concept of - STAY AT YOUR BASE LOCATION ? accenture crying over everywhere to every employee?? You decide not to stay at base is your decision. Otherwise accenture pays very well so you get accomodation in your base tier 1 city.
ACN didn't pay any hikes and promotion for 3 years and the recent hikes are not even beating the inflation. Which means our salary has actually reduced but the property prices have increased so does the rent in tier 1 cities. There was no compulsion or ask to stay at the base location before. All this rubbish started after Ms. Sweet and Mr. Zurale decided to torture us.
People travelling this distance is not an organisation issue . Anyone is supposed to be at base location as per policy and if due to own personal choice someone don't then they should not defame organisation.Accenture is way too generous as compared to other org for RTO.
It is expected to report to the base location as per policy. Exceptions can be raised for a certain reasons. If the base location is far away from home it is expected to stay nearby. Not sure from where you are seeing hypocrisy. They should have chosen any company/project which allows complete wfh.
