After a 26-year-old Chartered Accountant (CA) and an employee of Ernst and Young (EY) lost her life, allegedly due to ‘excessive workload’, Deloitte has now formed a three-member panel to review the firm's people practices.

India is investigating the work environment at Big Four accounting firm EY, the labour minister said on Thursday, after the death of a 26-year-old associate worker was blamed on stress by her mother who demanded accountability.

Amid a social media storm over the death of a young employee at tax consultancy major EY allegedly due to work pressure, Deloitte has formed a three-member external committee.

As the death of an EY employee allegedly due to 'overwork' sparked a nationwide debate on work-life balance, mental health, and corporate accountability, a psychiatrist at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital asked the demanding employers to recognise the fact that workers are human beings and not machines.

Anna Sebastian Perayil died in July and was overworked with a “backbreaking” load as a new employee, which affected her “physically, emotionally, and mentally”, her mother Anita Augustine wrote in a letter to EY’s India chairman which went viral on social media.

Shetty stressed that to address work pressure and foster an open work culture, Deloitte has appointed a chief happiness officer and enforces strict measures against any inappropriate behaviour

Amid a social media storm over the death of a young employee at tax consultancy major EY allegedly due to work pressure, Deloitte has formed a three-member external committee, which includes former revenue secretary Tarun Bajaj,