800 staff resign after firm asks them to work from workplace

As the Covid scenario has improved, a number of companies have already called their staff to workplace, ending the work from home (WFH).

Nonetheless, it seems some staff want to do business from home further. Just lately, hundreds of workers have resigned when a company requested them to return to the office.

Over 800 WhiteHat Jr staff have resigned from the youngsters online coding studying edtech start-up in the final two months after being requested to work from workplace.

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

On March 18, the corporate introduced the policy to finish make money working from home and asked distant staff to return to workplace by April 18.

The resignations came from full-time workers of the gross sales, coding, and math groups. Extra employees are anticipated to place down their papers in the coming months.

One of the employees who resigned advised the website that a month’s time was not enough for relocation. “Some have kids, some have aged and sick mother and father, while others have other obligations. It isn't proper to name back staff in such a short period of time,” the former WhiteHat Jr employee stated.

Another worker mentioned salaries also factored within the choice to not return to the office. At the time of hiring, employees have been advised about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has offices in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Nonetheless, after working from dwelling for two years, workers believed that their salaries must be revised to replicate the price of residing in costly cities.

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