Article, Essay on “Health or a Hefty Salary?” 200 Words Article on current issues for Class 9, 10, 11, 12 Board Exam.

Health or a Hefty Salary?

Long hours of work, permanent night shifts, and incredibly high work targets are the dark clouds that threaten to mark the sunshine ‘call center industry in India. The odd timings and nature of work roots people to a chair 9 hours a day. Here the three acts of listening, watching, and talking all at the same time never get a break. The performance monitoring also puts enormous stress on the employees. A considerable number of employees working in the call center complain of eve problems. Soreness, dryness, blurred vision, light sensitivity, headache, all these put together is labeled as Computer vision syndrome. Digestive disorders are common among employees in the call center.

Employees are facing the possibility of losing their voice. The problem is known earlier as the teacher syndrome’ is now being found in the young workers of call centers. Some of them may face the acute manifestation of this in the form of permanent loss of voice.

There is an urgent need to address this problem. It is a fact that one cannot survive without money in today’s materialistic world. But are we ready to pay the price of such jobs by harming our health?