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'Time for compassion': Indian tech firms help young workers in Covid trauma

Firms are trying to figure out how to address the mental-health fallout for a generation of employees.

Employees observe social distancing markers as they wait for entrance checks at the HCL Technologies Ltd. Jigani campus in Bengaluru, India, in May 2020. (Photo: Bloomberg)
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Employees observe social distancing markers as they wait for entrance checks at the HCL Technologies Ltd. Jigani campus in Bengaluru, India, in May 2020. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Saritha Rai | Bloomberg
"I lost my father to Covid, I’m very stressed because I have so many responsibilities."

"I saw so many deaths when I was in the ICU. I wake up to the sound of the ventilator beeps in the night. I don’t know why I’m alive."

"I lost my mother-in-law to Covid. I shouldn’t have argued with her all the time. I feel so guilty that I can’t sleep, I weep all the time."

This is a sampling of the cries for help from workers in today’s India. The country is going through the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreak, a tragedy exacerbated

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