Happy Independence Day

Are you Living to Work?

Are you living to work or working to live? Definitely I belong to the later group. It has become a trend now to sit late in office. People believe that late working people are hard working also. Sometimes it becomes inevitable to sit late and finish some urgent work. But such types of work will be bare minimum. We should learn to manage and prioritize our work. The need of the hour is not hardworking people but smart working people.

The working condition has become worse in Public Sector Banks, especially in branches of PSBs. Almost all branches are working with less than required staff, quite a few branches does not have required infrastructure, officers travel to nearby branches to complete their day to day work, officers are forced to stretch their working hours sacrificing their family life. After doing all these, they struggle for a decent hike in their salary. We cannot even compare the salary of a Central Govt. Class I employee with a Scale I PSB employee. The difference may be huge. Govt. has constituted the 7^th Pay Commission to revise central govt. employee’s salary which is due in Jan 2016 while we struggle to finalize our revision which was already due in Nov 2012.

A change is inevitable. Each one of us should initiate that change. Reach office on time, do your work sincerely and try to leave office on time so that you get enough time to spend with your family and friends. Ignore the people who sit and kill their time at office. Why we require a six day week while the Banking regulator works only for 5 days? This is the age of technology. Technology has grown to such an extent that it can almost replace human intervention. Five day week should be implemented in banking sector also.

Banking sector is a major contributor in development of any country. But Bankers are not getting that recognition.

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