Bangalore: The BPO industry employs more than four lakh people and most of them are below the age of 30. They earn an average of between and Rs 15,000 and Rs 20,000 a month.
When the rest of the world sleeps, they sit chained to a computer by a headset for eight hours at a stretch.
Most of them don't have much by way of a personal life since they're sleeping while the world's up and about. That's when hanging out with colleagues seems like a great idea.
But the call centre is where these 20-somethings fall right off the moral high ground says the Archbishop of Bangalore.
"They are so close to each other that there are also moral problems. Now, how do we get over this? Today, Bangalore is not the same that it was five years ago. There are a lot of negative attractions also," says Archbishop of Bangalore, Rev Bernard Moras.
These "negative attractions" are nothing but pubs and shopping malls. Father Sunny and his group are brain-storming on retreats and camps to be held from December exclusively for youth in the BPO sector and they're talking to the bosses to get the companies on their side.
"We have to look into it according to their needs and be supportive to them. It can be late in the evenings, early mornings or the weekends - we have to be of service not on our timings but theirs," says Rev Moras.
The only question - will the young people, who run the country's BPOs, accept a moral science lesson?
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