Fed Up Indian IT Professionals Want To Be Able To Leave Their Jobs Sooner (mashable.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: India's major IT firms have long required their employees to give a three-month, "non-negotiable" notice before leaving the company, but they could be soon forced to change that. Fed-up IT professionals from across India have reached out to the government, complaining that it is "unrealistic" for anyone to plan that far ahead. Over 28,000 professionals have signed a petition, addressed to the ministry of labor, to take immediate action on the matter. Part of the problem is that many companies are unwilling to wait for three months to have a person join them, many cited in the report say. Some of India's top IT firms including Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, HCL, Accenture and IBM impose the three-month notice period policy on their employees.

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[Neuronwelder]

Typical Corporations. Always stretching the boundaries on abuse. Doesn't matter what field you are in. You can be a janitor. You will.. be abused. As long as there is a surplus of people. This event will continue to grow.

28k in a country of 1.25 billion

[Kjella]

So in my country of 5 million this would be... ~112 signatories. Three months is standard here in Norway, sure sometime you'd like to jump ship straight away. But on the flip side it's three months instead of two weeks if they want to get rid of you too and that means a lot when it comes to unexpectedly applying for a new job. My opinion? If your company doesn't know if they need your skills three months from now they're running a cowboy shop where you can just as easily find yourself out the door as you got in the door. It won't be that much fun when you're on the short end of that stick.