India, March 29 -- A Reddit post criticising workplace culture in India has triggered a discussion around long hours, burnout, and employee boundaries after a user claimed they were asked to work weekends despite being on a 5-day schedule.

In a post titled "Why have we glorified working on weekends?", the employee said that he had recently joined a Big 4 firm and was assigned to a project where his manager allegedly made weekend work mandatory to meet client deadlines.

The user shared that his manager told the team that "client is important for us so you have to work on weekends" and added that previous employees had followed the same practice. The user said that he pushed back, stating that he was paid for 5 days and needed weekends fo...