A 26-year-old woman working at EY Pune, one of the Big Four accounting firms, tragically lost her life due to work stress within four months of her joining. Anna Sebastian Perayil, a young Chartered Accountant (CA) from Kerala, lost her life after the company “burdened her with backbreaking work”. In the wake of this devastating loss, Perayil’s mother, Anita Augustine, has written an email addressed to the company’s India boss Rajiv Memani. In her letter, she condemned the firm for “glorifying overwork” and highlighted how the company’s human rights values starkly contradicted the reality her daughter experienced.
Perayil cleared her CA Exams in 2023 and joined EY Pune in March 2024 as an executive. Since it was her first job, she “worked tirelessly to meet the expectations,” but the effort took a heavy toll on her physical, mental, and emotional health. According to her mother, “She began experiencing anxiety, sleeplessness, and stress soon after joining, but continued to push herself, believing hard work and perseverance were the path to success.”
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