800 staff resign after company asks them to work from office

As the Covid state of affairs has improved, a number of companies have already known as their workers to workplace, ending the work from home (WFH).

Nonetheless, it appears some staff wish to work from home further. Recently, hundreds of staff have resigned when a company requested them to come to the workplace.

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

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, based on an Inc42 report.

On March 18, the company announced the coverage to finish work at home and asked distant workers to return to workplace by April 18.

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

One of the employees who resigned advised the web site that a month’s time was not sufficient for relocation. “Some have kids, some have aged and sick parents, while others have other duties. It's not right to call again employees in such a short period of time,” the former WhiteHat Jr employee mentioned.

Another employee stated salaries additionally factored within the decision to not return to the office. At the time of hiring, workers have been advised about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has workplaces in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. However, after working from home for two years, employees believed that their salaries ought to be revised to replicate the cost of dwelling in expensive cities.

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