800 employees resign after firm asks them to work from office

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

Nevertheless, it seems some workers need to make money working from home additional. Lately, hundreds of staff have resigned when an organization requested them to come back to the workplace.

Over 800 WhiteHat Jr workers have resigned from the children online coding studying edtech start-up within the last two months after being asked to work from office.

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

On March 18, the company introduced the policy to end earn a living from home and requested remote workers to return to workplace by April 18.

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

One of the employees who resigned told the web site that a month’s time was not sufficient for relocation. “Some have kids, some have aged and sick dad and mom, while others produce other obligations. It's not right to call back workers in such a brief time frame,” the former WhiteHat Jr worker stated.

Another employee said salaries additionally factored in the determination to not return to the workplace. At the time of hiring, employees have been advised about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has offices in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Nevertheless, after working from home for two years, staff believed that their salaries should be revised to reflect the cost of living in costly cities.

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