800 employees resign after company asks them to work from office

As the Covid scenario has improved, several firms have already known as their workers to workplace, ending the work from home (WFH).

Nonetheless, it appears some staff wish to make money working from home additional. Not too long ago, hundreds of staff have resigned when a company requested them to return to the workplace.

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

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

On March 18, the company introduced the policy to finish work from home and asked distant staff to return to office by April 18.

The resignations got here from full-time workers of the gross sales, coding, and math teams. More staff are expected to place down their papers within the coming months.

One of the staff who resigned instructed the web site that a month’s time was not enough for relocation. “Some have kids, some have aged and sick mother and father, while others produce other responsibilities. It's not right to name back workers in such a brief period of time,” the former WhiteHat Jr employee said.

One other worker mentioned salaries also factored within the decision to not return to the workplace. At the time of hiring, workers have been told about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has workplaces in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. However, after working from home for two years, workers believed that their salaries ought to be revised to reflect the cost of residing in costly cities.

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