EY Slammed Over Response On 26-Year-Old Pune CA’S Tragic Death

Anna Sebastian Perayil, was working for EY at their Pune office and had joined the workforce on March 18. She died due to cardiac arrest in July. Her mother, in a letter to the EY Chairman expressed about the horrors of working for a 'toxic workplace', that was the reason for her daughter's death. In her heartbreaking letter, she also claimed that no one from EY attended the funeral.

EY response on her death has invited severe criticism on social media. The incident highlights the dangers of workplace culture in india, especially among the top companies.
To discuss this and more we spoke to Arun giri, Co-Founder & Group Editor at Taxsutra

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[mqser]

Where is Mr Narayan Murthy and he doesn’t talk in such incidents

[harikrishnanm]

Not only in big 4, Most of the employees in the private sector are facing stress and anxiety due to toxic work culture in our country. Work days needs to be reduced. Govt should implement strict laws.

[amanandbully]

Not only Big 4s.. it happens with majority of the company's who service other nation's.. they are just another east India company..US people are smart enough to get their services done by Indians and manufacturing by china.

[i_am_RB]

Giving task in night and asked to submit by morning, and that too regularly, is beyond disgusting.

[arnov]

And there is someone who is advocating a 70 Hrs/ week working hours.

[BadriYS]

Ethics forum is a waste solution. I have encountered harassment, high pressure, discrimination, and bias from EY management. I reported this horrific incident to the ethics team, but without providing a solution, they closed the case and continued to target and harass me. I also reported it to CEO Carmine Di Sibio, Rajiv Memani, Sreekanth Arimanithaya, and Jaya Virwani, providing all the evidence—emails, call records, chat screenshots, etc.—but they concealed the issue and closed the case. It has been a truly traumatizing experience, and I do not recommend EY to anyone. When I reported harassment, fraud, bias, discrimination, toxic culture, and injustice to Sreenivasa Rao, Jaya Virwani, Rajiv Memani, Carmine Di Sibio, and Sreekanth Arimanithaya, they blocked me on all social media platforms. Imagine the trauma and anxiety I have faced. If you report any incident, they won’t take action; they don’t value human life.

[SandipPatil]

I worked for EY more than 4 year, it's really toxic environment😢

[Bhairavvvv]

It's unfortunate that somebody has to die in India to make a point 😢

[bhalchandrasapre]

My brother works for Barclays pune as a financial consultant.. He logs in at 10am and works till 3am...still does not achieve his One of his colleagues has to see a psychiatrist due to overload...i told my brother to leave job... But fear of unemployment is so much they can't make that decision and affect their health... It's the overall story of india... Work life balance has to be made properly. ... If barclays hr seeing this please ask your manager to look into the workload of their people

[protipguha]

Request to media please highlight IT toxic culture as well … it’s not only CAs who are only suffering … bank employees, IT employees are also going through the same path….

[sus_]

My daughter recently quit from ACCENTURE for the same reason. We reported issues to their HR . (We know that No company is going to accept their flaws rather they put all blames to the employee. Also we know that Proving threatening, abusive, or harassing behavior in a company is challenging ) Continuing at the same company after complaining about a manager would be disastrous . So I advised my daughter to quit !!

[nareshdanala]

Worked for EY for 7yrs. Quit Apr 2024. But I noticed the culture got toxic in the last 1-2yrs of my tenure. Two senior managers too passed away before i left, one of them whom i sat around in the cubicles. Told my self i this needed to change and resigned. The pressure is high, work is micro-managed. Every minute you work for needs to tracked with proper work description and unique codes & action taken for any improper tracking is severe. Breaks the staffs morale. Things need to change. They need to fire the Sr. Managers and replace them with better talent. Pray Anna’s soul rests in peace.

[bijumathew]

Few months back Australia passed a law that gives the employees the right to disconnect their bosses after working hours but here in India, we are expected to work after working hours by default

[MK-mqkh]

This is happening even in Banks both private and Govt. No work life balance

[rambospirit]

What Arun said is bang on. While working there some years back in EY GDS, there was a marked shift towards driving numbers. Work culture in EY india has gone abyssmally low.. one of the managers in the business enablemment services division was asking to work on Christmas holidays as well even when they knew no clients will be there and when leaves were informed one month in advance. HR does not have the spine to question them or they play up to the business division head. Even though they tout about open culture, nobody speaks due to fear of reprissals. Politics, Favouritsm, Cronyism, Manipulation - see everything with this manager. i have seen people fainting, having mental issues and all. Nothing will happen, they will cover up their tracks. An eloquent letter will be sent to employees - we deeply are concerned about your well being". their employee survey is a joke. when the results come the line managers and team members get the brunt and are made to feel guilty for haing provided the feedback! Feel better that i resigned the most toxic culture. STay away from the GDS Enablement functions. Prioritise your health.

[BarkaDog]

This is why I want to shift to a European country.

[rishabhrajchaubey]

It's not only about the Big4 CA companies. This toxic culture exist most of the private companies in India. They are quite common in India becuase there's no government intervention into this.

[ThDaniel]

My former reporting manager Nisha created toxic work culture. She abused her position of authority and harrassed team members. There are many such shameless individuals in corporates.

[meenaljain]

Work pressure, late working hours are happening in many fields. Fixed working hours should be mandatory in all public and private firms.

[NeekunjSharma]

If this had happened in Germany, the company would’ve been summoned in court