800 workers resign after firm asks them to work from office

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

Nonetheless, it seems some employees wish to work from home further. Lately, hundreds of workers have resigned when an organization asked them to come to the workplace.

Over 800 WhiteHat Jr employees have resigned from the children 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, requested its workers to return to office within a month’s time, in line with an Inc42 report.

On March 18, the corporate announced the coverage to end do business from home and requested remote workers to return to office by April 18.

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

One of many staff who resigned instructed the website that a month’s time was not enough for relocation. “Some have youngsters, some have aged and sick mother and father, while others have other tasks. It is not right to call back staff in such a short time period,” the previous WhiteHat Jr worker mentioned.

Another worker stated salaries also factored in the resolution to not return to the office. On the time of hiring, workers had been informed about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has places of work in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Nevertheless, after working from dwelling for 2 years, employees believed that their salaries must be revised to reflect the price of living in costly cities.

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