800 workers resign after company asks them to work from office

Because the Covid situation has improved, several corporations have already called their workers to office, ending the work at home (WFH).

However, it appears some staff want to earn a living from home additional. Just lately, tons of of employees have resigned when an organization asked them to come back to the workplace.

Over 800 WhiteHat Jr employees have resigned from the kids 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 staff to return to workplace within a month’s time, in accordance with an Inc42 report.

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

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

One of the workers who resigned informed the web site that a month’s time was not sufficient for relocation. “Some have children, some have aged and sick parents, whereas others produce other responsibilities. It isn't right to call back workers in such a short time frame,” the previous WhiteHat Jr employee mentioned.

Another worker stated salaries additionally factored in the decision to not return to the workplace. On the time of hiring, employees were instructed about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has offices in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. However, after working from home for 2 years, workers believed that their salaries should be revised to mirror the cost of residing in costly cities.

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