TeamLease Survey Summary

TeamLease releases its latest study in the 'World of Work' series on Superstitions@Workplace.The study finds that a major segment of the Indian corporate workforce still finds sanctity in their superstitious beliefs to herald success, and this applies across the board.

Survey Summary

- Overall, faith in personal belief or superstition is quite high (62%) among the target respondents.

- Dependence on superstitious practices is found to be higher in Bangalore and New Delhi as compared to other cities.

- In the modern workplace, employees enjoy the liberty of following their personal beliefs, with no resistance from management.

- Senior management respects employees' superstitious or personal beliefs in their organisations.

- Chennai reflects a high optimism on the influence of superstitious practices on their work front (72%), whereas Mumbai reportedly disagreed dramatically (22%).

- There's unanimity on the definition of Vastu/ FengShui being type casted as 'Superstitious' with 45% respondents buying into that view.

- High willingness of employees to follow superstition/ beliefs at work place (81%) is an eye-opener, with an equally high belief system seen across the senior management too.

- 95% of the respondents reported a conducive cohesiveness amongst in opinions amongst peers/ subordinates about superstitions.

Source : Equity Bulls

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