After 64 yrs of achieving independence, and 20 yrs of open market economic progress, India is facing a new threat.
Corporate India is losing independence, slowly yet surely !
Expat Invasion is a clear and present danger.
Prologue : As MNCs / Global companies moving in to India to tap in to relatively cheaper and yet skilled and English speaking human capital, corporations going all the way to preserve multinational corporate culture and identity. Which is a very noble intention, and from this intention come the numerous expat executives, who have today infested all board rooms and maligned all policy decisions, making each Global company established in India, more and more a western company.
Cases in point -
1. A Global corporation in Bangalore updated employee health insurance policy. The council that was formed for this consisted of all Expats, far far away from Indian health care system. In India the health insurance is only for hospitalization for more than 24 hrs. In US, it is for all visits and they pay a co-pay. Here is council set a 20% co-pay in India too.. even if it is for just hospitalization which is least used option by the insured. When questioned by the employees, the expat council says "co-pay" is a norm across the world.
2. The new mom's coming to work in a Global company, were happy by an announcement that there will be day care at work. That was two years ago. Now they have outsourced the day care to a Singapore company. That costs a whooping RS 15K a month per kid. And can accommodate 1 teacher to 3 kids. Not the luxury Indian mom's used to. There need to be volume. Amazing facility creation by yet another expat board.
3. A health club / gym contract needed to be updated for an office in Bangalore. The process of selecting the right gym vendor done by ???? You can fill in the blanks - and can really imagine how it is not suitable for Indians working out here.
There are a few more. But increasingly depressing. And just like when India was under British rule, a lot of Indian's helped British rule this country, there are tons of expats of Indian origin in those boards and councils.
My sincere apologies to the readers of my blog to be in such a whining mood today !
A loss..
10 months ago
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2 comments:
Looks like this MNC is officially turning into a bureaucracy controlled by a quasi-dictatorship. For each of the instances, either :
1. The people making the decision are far away from the reality, or
2. As you mentioned, the target group for the services are expat NRIs or NRIs who have made enough money, come here to settle down and live a peaceful life earning a pension, generally dual high-income people who can easily absorb the cost without feeling the pinch (healthcare, day care)
Due to the above, any sign of protest, or outcry, or call from the lowly junta for reconsideration falls to deaf ears, both in the decision making body as well as senior management of the team. The decision making body because of reason 1 primarily, and the management because of reason 2.
We are used to inefficiency from the government, when we see it taking over the corporate world too, we feel hopeless!s
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