800 workers resign after firm asks them to work from office

As the Covid scenario has improved, a number of corporations have already known as their workers to office, ending the make money working from home (WFH).

Nonetheless, it appears some staff want to make money working from home additional. Not too long ago, hundreds of workers have resigned when an organization requested them to come back to the office.

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

On March 18, the company introduced the policy to end work from home and asked remote employees to return to office by April 18.

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

One of the workers who resigned told the website that a month’s time was not sufficient for relocation. “Some have youngsters, some have aged and sick parents, while others have other responsibilities. It's not proper to call again workers in such a short time period,” the previous WhiteHat Jr employee said.

One other worker said salaries additionally factored within the resolution to not return to the workplace. On the time of hiring, workers were advised about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has places of work in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Nonetheless, after working from dwelling for 2 years, employees believed that their salaries ought to be revised to replicate the price of residing in expensive cities.

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