26 Jun, 2009, 1412 hrs IST,IANS
BANGALORE: IT professionals in are battling the global downturn with the help of doctors. Living under constant fear of losing their jobs or trauma of seeing their colleagues getting the pink slip, techies are increasingly seeking medical help to survive what experts call "layoff survivor syndrome".
The intensity of the syndrome could become severe when a team member working on a project is benched or sent out, a leading psychiatrist said.
"It's a mental situation where IT professionals who of late have seen their colleagues, who are often friends too, being laid off," BN Gangadhar, professor of psychiatry at the premier National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) here, told media.
"First, it is the anxiety that the axe may fall upon them the next time and, secondly, a sense of remorse, with a tinge of guilt that they have survived, whereas their colleagues sitting next to them have lost jobs," Gangadhar said.
Two million people were employed in the Indian IT and BPO industry in 2007-08, according to the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom). The BPO sector employed more than 700,000 people.
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http://infotech.indiatimes.com/Enterprise-IT/Techies-live-under-Pink-fear/articleshow/4705672.cms:nopity: Welcome to My World.
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