Originally posted by: jshree_ram
Trying to answer the question...
@bold: whenever a person is on deputation ( or long term assignment) the company does give an flat.
if you are moving as single u get 1 bhk and with family then 2 bhk. Normally these flat are called service apartment, which company buys it for lease from the builder or the owner of the flat. Genrally service apartments are wellfurnished and posh. Irrespective of which part of the country you are in. This works out cheaper for any company .
As far as I understand Ishaan has gone to mumbai only short period, hence no surprises.
@blue: with my personal experience I can say that it is also very realistic. It is a very wrong perception that if an IT firm doesn't allow its employee to work behond 5:00 PM is not well to do company. There are many IT firms which does this. Will not name them. I started my carrier in such IT company, where we could not work behond 6:00 PM because of cost cutting and other issues still had to finish our delivarables on time. We had to work on crazy deadlines with limited resources, but still whenever we were deputed to other city for any project, we were treated as VIPs, and were given all the comforts of that of 5 star hotels.