NEW DELHI: Urging younger professionals fighting office stress to “converse up”, All India Professionals’ Congress (AIPC) on Saturday launched ‘For Anna For All: Office Wellness’ marketing campaign named after Anna Sebastian Perayil, a 26-year-old a CA from Kochi whose alleged demise attributable to excessive work strain has triggered a nation-wide dialogue on office stress.
The marketing campaign launch follows the reassurance given by Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi to the mother and father of Anna Sebastian throughout a video name with them on September 21 the place he assured them that the Congress will take up the difficulty affecting professionals nationally and also will increase it in Parliament.
Below the ‘Converse-Up’ marketing campaign, AIPC has launched a web-based platform — ‘www.profcongress.in/speakup’ to allow professionals to share their expertise close to work circumstances and incidents and in addition present options. In keeping with AIPC full anonymity might be maintained for professionals who need to stay nameless.
“Hundreds of thousands of pros throughout India are dealing with the identical stress and strain that Anna Sebastian skilled. It’s clear we should do extra to help them,” Rahul Gandhi mentioned in a submit on X.
“This initiative to create more healthy working circumstances for professionals is a vital step in the correct route. I encourage everybody to become involved and assist drive this motion ahead. Collectively, we will make a significant distinction,” he added.
Sharing the main points, AIPC chairman Praveen Chakravarty highlighted that it was a multi-phase programme and an skilled group may even be created to draft pointers for places of work throughout India on methods to enhance office circumstances and broad consultations might be held with professionals and their households.
In keeping with AIPC, as a ultimate step Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will increase this difficulty in Parliament in search of a constructive dialogue on the draft pointers and urge the federal government to move a regulation.
Noting that the issue was widespread, Chakravarty disclosed that 3000 staff of 1 firm have already written to the Professionals’ Congress about their traumatic work circumstances.
He additionally clarified that the marketing campaign was “fully apolitical”; it was not an Opposition celebration’s cost in opposition to the federal government. “Nor was it a problem about any specific firm or about revenge,” he added.
