800 employees resign after company asks them to work from office

As the Covid scenario has improved, a number of firms have already referred to as their staff to office, ending the do business from home (WFH).

Nonetheless, it seems some staff wish to work at home additional. Not too long ago, lots of of staff have resigned when an organization requested them to return to the workplace.

Over 800 WhiteHat Jr staff have resigned from the children online coding learning edtech start-up within the last two months after being requested to work from office.

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

On March 18, the corporate announced the coverage to finish do business from home and requested remote employees to return to workplace by April 18.

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

One of the employees who resigned told the website that a month’s time was not sufficient for relocation. “Some have children, some have aged and sick dad and mom, whereas others produce other duties. It's not right to call back staff in such a short time period,” the previous WhiteHat Jr worker stated.

One other worker mentioned salaries additionally factored in the choice to not return to the office. At the time of hiring, employees were instructed about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has places of work in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Nonetheless, after working from dwelling for two years, employees believed that their salaries needs to be revised to replicate the price of dwelling in expensive cities.

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