800 employees resign after company asks them to work from workplace

As the Covid situation has improved, a number of firms have already referred to as their workers to workplace, ending the work from home (WFH).

However, it seems some employees need to work from home further. Just lately, a whole bunch of workers have resigned when an organization asked them to return to the workplace.

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

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

On March 18, the company introduced the policy to end work at home and requested remote employees to return to workplace by April 18.

The resignations came from full-time staff of the sales, coding, and math groups. Extra staff are expected to place down their papers in the coming months.

One of many staff who resigned instructed the website that a month’s time was not enough for relocation. “Some have children, some have aged and sick dad and mom, whereas others have other obligations. It's not right to call again employees in such a short time frame,” the previous WhiteHat Jr worker stated.

Another employee said salaries also factored in the decision to not return to the workplace. At the time of hiring, staff were instructed about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has offices in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Nonetheless, after working from home for two years, workers believed that their salaries should be revised to replicate the price of living in costly cities.

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