The Indian outsourcing industry is worth $ 154 billion, and, according to Bloomberg, is currently undergoing significant changes. Automation has led to the fact that in the coming years, half of the country's 4 million people working in the IT services industry will lose their jobs. Representatives of a prestigious and well-paid profession are alarmed and apprehensive for their own prospects, but they have no one to discuss these problems with. An easy way to do this is to anonymize the chatbox. Online platforms for counseling and stress management have already shown their effectiveness, and young professionals in the field of high technology should first assess their usefulness. The developers of the popular chat room YourDOST ("dost" in Hindi means "friend") experienced their own career stress: in their history, and numerous denials of employment, and family problems. Having met and married, Raha Singh and Punit Manuja decided to come up with something that would help people with depression and stress.

YourDOST started as a blog, but later became a bot offering online psychologists and psychiatrists advice for those who are afraid of face-to-face conversations. Audio chats cost 400 rupees (about $ 6, chats a bit expensive) and available every day around the clock. For comparison, a visit to a specialist may cost several thousand rupees. The services of YourDOST are drawn by more and more job-losing IT professionals, for whom this is not just an economic problem, but also the loss of status.

Original article: India is experiencing a boom of chatbot psychologists.