Startups face a moment of reckoning as employees ditch the hustle culture

Employees working in young companies across the world are expected to work long hours (even weekends), and jump from one meeting to the other without a break. In India, poor mental health among employees costs employers around $14 billion annually in absenteeism, lower productivity, and attrition. Startups also face the risk of losing a crucial talent pool of employees. Heart attacks and cardiac arrest are on the rise among Indian youth, with stressful lifestyles being the top reason for the rise in heart attacks and deaths related to heart attacks in the first six months of 2021, according to a recent Deloitte report. The number of burnout has doubled in the last year, says psychologist Ishita Datta, a Bengaluru-based psychologist, and the number of clients who experienced burnout . . .