Many organizations talk about “frugality” as one of their core values. It is one of Amazon’s famous leadership principles. It is a handy value to have – not just in corporate but also in life. It might come easy (not generalising here) to a person with a typical Indian middle class “mindset” (note that I don’t say middle class “background” because people’s mindset is not the same as the background they come from).

Recently, there were a few discussions at my office around this term which got me thinking – what really is frugality? How does one go about being “frugal” in a corporate setting? 

There is one aspect of frugality that is not spoken about much. That’s what I’ll address in this blog and I’ll bank on my learnings over the last 10 years in corporate life.