800 employees resign after company asks them to work from office

Because the Covid scenario has improved, a number of companies have already called their workers to workplace, ending the work at home (WFH).

However, it seems some employees need to work from home further. Just lately, lots of of staff have resigned when a company asked them to return to the workplace.

Over 800 WhiteHat Jr staff have resigned from the kids online coding learning edtech start-up within the final 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 workers to return to workplace within a month’s time, in accordance with an Inc42 report.

On March 18, the corporate introduced the policy to end do business from home and asked distant employees to return to office by April 18.

The resignations came from full-time staff of the sales, coding, and math teams. Extra staff are anticipated to place down their papers in 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 parents, whereas others produce other duties. It isn't right to call again employees in such a brief time frame,” the former WhiteHat Jr employee said.

Another employee said salaries additionally factored within the resolution to not return to the office. At the time of hiring, employees have been instructed about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has offices in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. However, after working from residence for two years, staff believed that their salaries should be revised to mirror the price of dwelling in expensive cities.

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