800 staff resign after firm asks them to work from office

Because the Covid scenario has improved, several companies have already called their employees to workplace, ending the make money working from home (WFH).

Nevertheless, it appears some workers want to do business from home further. Recently, lots of of workers have resigned when an organization requested them to come to the office.

Over 800 WhiteHat Jr workers have resigned from the children on-line coding learning edtech start-up within the last two months after being asked to work from office.

This comes after WhiteHat Jr, a platform which was acquired by BYJU’S in 2020, asked its workers to return to workplace within a month’s time, in response to an Inc42 report.

On March 18, the corporate announced the policy to end earn a living from home and asked remote staff to return to workplace by April 18.

The resignations got here from full-time staff of the gross sales, coding, and math teams. Extra staff are anticipated to put down their papers within the coming months.

One of many workers who resigned advised the website that a month’s time was not enough for relocation. “Some have children, some have aged and sick dad and mom, while others produce other obligations. It's not right to name back staff in such a short time period,” the previous WhiteHat Jr employee stated.

One other worker stated salaries additionally factored within the determination to not return to the workplace. On the time of hiring, employees have been told about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has workplaces in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Nonetheless, after working from dwelling for two years, workers believed that their salaries must be revised to mirror the cost of residing in expensive cities.

“This was a well-planned and managed layoff that WhiteHat Jr did,” a former employee remarked.