India, Oct. 11 -- An employee claiming to work at one of India's leading IT service firms has sparked an online debate after alleging that workers on a particular project are being forced to log in for 12 hours a day, starting at 7 am.

The employee, posting on Reddit, wrote: "This is supposed to be one of the top IT service companies but the experience with this project has been really disappointing. A female manager handling 100+ team members sends messages that everyone should be logged in the system for 12 hrs starting at morning 7 am. She doesn't even have the guts to send an official email or involve HR. Everyone in the team hates her. What's worse, the higher-ups on this project are just as bad. Associates here are treated more lik...