Techie run over while crossing railway track
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A 26-year-old software engineer was killed on Tuesday evening when she came under a train while trying to cross the railway tracks. The victim A. Divya had gone out with her family for an outing to Necklace Road. They were crossing the railway tracks at about 6 pm to go home when the mishap took place.
Mr Arun went ahead with the child and as Divya was crossing, she was hit by the Charminar Express which was passing that way. The couple were living at Somajiguda. Divya and her husband Arun were employed at Phillips. They took their three-year-old child for the outing. Dr Mahesh, a family friend of Divya, said, “We got to know about the incident and are very shocked. We do not know exactly what happened, but Arun, her husband, is at the Osmania Hospital trying to get the final clearances done.”
Sleep deprivation affects alertness of techies
The road accident involving a software engineer who fell asleep and ra-mmed his car into three people at the Kothapet fruit market on Tuesday has brought to fore the issue of sleep deprivation among techies. Most BPO employees work in three shifts: 8 am to 4 pm, 2 pm to 10 pm and 8 pm to 4 am on weekly rotation basis. Software engineers, on the other hand, usually do not have fixed working hours.
“Even after I am back from my office, I attend to clients’ calls till late in the night and on weekends as well. For seniors, it is an unsaid norm to work at odd hours, across shifts when the need arises as well as on off days. Mostly, new recruits face a very difficult time to adjust to the continuously altering sleep patterns but even after years, it takes a toll on one’s sleep,” said the CEO of an IT company. Doctors, meanwhile, say that the shift system upsets employees’ biological rhythm. Dr Subhash Kaul, neurophysician from Nims, said, “Working on alternate day and night shifts is a serious problem since the person doesn’t get habituated to one particular timing.”
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