81.1% OF BPO STAFF DEPRESSED SAYS STUDY

  The pay may be great and perks aplenty, but India's night shift BPO employeees seem to be trading thier sleep for a whole lot of health problems.
According to the country's first randomized controlled study on BPO employees, tose wo work te graveyard shift are falling prey to depression, anxiety and substance abuse because thier inbuilt biological clock is unable to cope with thier erratic, abnormal sleep-wake patterns.
  A group of sleep specialists headed by Dr J.CSuri, president of the Indian sleep disorders Association, conducted the study on two groups of subjects from NEw Delhi, aged between 19 and 37 years - the control group that pusued day jobs - and the study group that worked night shifts at call centers and BPOs catering to the US.
  The statistics are disturbig. A high 81.1% of BPO employees showed symptoms of depression, as against 14.8 % of the day workers.

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