India’s Tea Estate workers: designing an empathic behavioural system to motivate migratory behaviour

Tea Estate workers in India have a long history of exploitation, from the time of colonial plantations to modern times. Generations of suffering have created subdued mentalities that discourage spatial and societal mobility, and in turn hinder the modernisation of tea estates. In this post, behavioural scientist Debarshi Roy proposes models that, if implemented effectively, will sustain functional migration of future generations whilst also enhancing efficiency.